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—Pam Houston, bestselling author of SIGHT HOUND and CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED

—Susan Richards, New York Times bestselling author of CHOSEN BY A HORSE

Create Editorial Content for I Am Princess X

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Aliza M., Teen Board Member

When May moved from Atlanta to Seattle in the 5th grade, she and Libby instantly became best friends. They spent their middle school days drawing comics featuring their own superhero, Princess X, and were always making up new stories in which their heroine could star. The girls enjoyed the regular rhythms of life, mixed in with some Princess X adventures, until the day May received some horrible news --- she’s told that Libby and her mother were killed in a car crash. Read More

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Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. However a few years later Libby was in a car accident and she passed away with her mom and Princess X died with her. Years later May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window. Princess X? When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches. Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.

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Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. However a few years later Libby was in a car accident and she passed away with her mom and Princess X died with her. Years later May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window. Princess X? When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches. Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.

About the Book

Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure.

Once upon a few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her.

Once upon a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window.
Princess X?

When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches. Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.

—Bill Roorbach, author of WRITING LIFE STORIES

—Lily King, author of THE PLEASING HOUR and EUPHORIA

Create Editorial Content for Three Day Summer

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Maya Berman Teen Board Member

On Thursday, August 14th, 1969, Michael Michealson travels to Bethel, New York to see what rumors say is going to be biggest, grooviest music festival ever. There's a heck of a line up: The Who, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix and more. Michael enters the festival with his friend Evan, his girlfriend Amanda and her two friends. The world buzzes around him with possibilities of a war draft and questions about college. He has no idea what the world has to offer.  Read More

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Michael is unsure about most things. Go to college? Enlist in the military? Break up with his girlfriend? He is living for the moment and all he wants is a few days at the biggest concert of the summer. Cora lives in the town hosting the music festival and is volunteering in the medical tent. So, when Michael and Cora meet, sparks fly, hearts race and all the things songs are written about come true.

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Michael is unsure about most things. Go to college? Enlist in the military? Break up with his girlfriend? He is living for the moment and all he wants is a few days at the biggest concert of the summer. Cora lives in the town hosting the music festival and is volunteering in the medical tent. So, when Michael and Cora meet, sparks fly, hearts race and all the things songs are written about come true.

About the Book

Boy meets girl...at the most amazing concert the world has ever seen.

Michael is unsure about most things. Go to college? Enlist in the military? Break up with his girlfriend? All big question marks. He is living for the moment and all he wants is a few days at the biggest concert of the summer.

Cora lives in the town hosting the music festival. She's volunteering in the medical tent. She's like that, always the good girl. But there is something in the air at this concert and suddenly Cora finds herself wanting to push her own boundaries.

When Michael and Cora meet, sparks fly, hearts race and all the things songs are written about come true. And all the while, three days of the most epic summer await them...  

Rita Williams-Garcia, author of Gone Crazy in Alabama

Newbery Honor winner and New York Timesbestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters, who are about to learn what it's like to be fish out of water as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime.

Terri Guillemets

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.

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Terri Guillemets

Killer Instinct

KILLER INSTINCT:
 
She’s not evil, but she has certain. . . urges.
 
Ages 14-up
KILLER INSTINCT:
 
She’s not evil, but she has certain. . . urges.
 
Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. Afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.