Nine stories for young adult readers about girls of every age, shape, and size, who are learning that the world is not a simple place and that there is more than one way to live.
Orphaned brother and sister Calliope and Rafe, members of the most popular rock band in Elysia, a city where youth reigns, watch their dreams turn to nightmares when Calliope follows her visions to Under, a land where there aging go to die.
Primavera, a girl whose songs make flowers grow, flees Paradise for Elysia, a magical city devoted to youth, but realizes she has left behind everything she truly loves and needs, and tries to find a way back home.
A collection of post-modern fairy tales that chronicle the interwoven lives of Weetzie Bat, her friend Dirk, and their lovers Duck and My Secret Agent Man.
Having stopped eating after the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Laurel feels herself losing control of her life in the hot, magical world of Los Angeles.
After her family loses their cottage in the Los Angeles hills, junior high school outcast Weetzie Bat's father leaves her mother and Weetzie learns how to stand up for herself and to find beauty in even the most difficult situations.
In search of material for a screenplay they are developing, seventeen-year-old Violet and her new friend Claire try to make life a movie as they chase their dreams through dangerously beautiful Los Angeles.
