Viking Juvenile, 390 pages, ISBN 9780670010905
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Awards:
2008 World Fantasy Award
2009 Locus Award Finalist
Individual Story Awards:
"Pretty Monsters": 2009 Locus Award for Best Novella
"Magic for Beginners": 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella
"The Faery Handbag”: 2005 Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Locus Award winner
"The Specialist's Hat": 1999 World Fantasy Award
Annotation: Kelly Link’s first YA short story collection, strange things happen, weirdness rules and nothing is quite what it seems.
Booktalk: Miles digs up the grave of his dead girlfriend to retrieve the poems he placed in her casket. Jeremy inherits a phone booth in Las Vegas. At summer camp, James (while wearing a dress) comes face-to-face with a human-eating monster. A girl’s 200-year-old grandmother owns a people-swallowing handbag. A teen soccer star stranded in Costa Rica is quarantined during a flu epidemic, waiting for the return of aliens.
Link’s stories combine wizards, ghosts, talking corpses, monsters, aliens and more, yet all the while focusing on the weirdness of growing up in a strange world with parents who don’t always make sense.
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