Wings - Softcover
Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words.
Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.
Laurel's life is the very definition of normal . . . until the morning when she wakes up to discover a flower blooming from her back. As it turns out, nothing in Laurel's life is what it seems. Now, with the help of an alluring faerie sentry who holds the key to her true past, Laurel must race to save her human family from the centuries-old faerie enemies who walk among them.
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Aprilynne Pike has been spinning stories since she was a child with a hyperactive imagination. She completed her BA in creative writing at the age of twenty at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Aprilynne currently lives with her husband and children in Arizona.
Grade 7-10–Homeschooled Laurel begins public high school as a tenth grader when her adoptive parents move to LA., leaving behind the land that has been in her mother's family since the Gold Rush days. The many clues that Laurel is different (she is strictly vegan; sunlight seems to shine through her fair skin; she never gets cold; she craves the outdoors; she doesn't menstruate) culminate in a bump on her back growing to the size of a softball and blooming into a flower that has foot-long petals. Returning to her parents' land, she meets Tamini, a faerie to whom she is attracted, who tells her that she is not human, but rather is a plant or, more specifically, a faerie. David, her accepting and supportive classmate, tests her tissue and confirms that Tamini is right. When a creepy alleged realtor pressures the family to sell the land, the teens become suspicious, and they are soon fighting for their lives in a centuries-old battle between faeries and trolls. Laurel's struggles to figure out what it means to be human are matched by her struggles to determine what it means to be a faerie, and she is torn between love for David and love for Tamini. The ending allows for many possibilities in the upcoming sequels. The book has a nice mix of danger and romance, the world of magic and the world of high school, with well-developed characters and a quick-moving plot.–Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME
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- PublisherHarperCollins Children's Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0007319738
- ISBN 13 9780007319732
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages360
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. 360 pages. some wear, creases, marks, tanned pages, WINGSWings: 1by Aprilynne PikeHarperCollins, UK, 2009ISBN 9780 007319732sml trade pb, 360ppACCEPTABLE: some we ar, creases, marks, tanned pages, Laurel was mesmeriz ed, staring at the pale things. They were terrifyingly beautiful - too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They l ooked almost like wings.Laurel's life is the very def inition of normal . . . until the morning when she wakes up to di scover a flower blooming from her back. As it turns out, nothing in Laurel's life is what it seems. Now, with the help of an allur ing faerie sentry who holds the key to her true past, Laurel must race to save her human family from the centuries-old faerie enem ies who walk among them. Seller Inventory # 1121av
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