Beautiful Creatures: The Manga (A Graphic Novel) - Softcover

Kami Garcia; Margaret Stohl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141348518 ISBN 13: 9780141348513

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK), 2013

Synopsis

Beautiful Creatures The Manga A Graphic Novel

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About the Author:

About the authors: @kamigarciais a superstitious American southerner who can make biscuits by hand and pies from scratch! She attended George Washington University and is a teacher and reading specialist. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her family. @mstohlhas written and designed many successful video games, which is why her two beagles are named Zelda and Kirby. She has degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities in the US and has also studied in the prestigious creative writing department at UEA, Norwich. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her family. www.beautifulcreaturesthebook.com

From Booklist:

Ethan’s only excitement in the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina, comes from the dreams he keeps having about a mysterious girl. But when that girl, Lena, shows up in school, Ethan learns that there are people with dangerous powers living in his town and that he may have a part to play in Lena’s tortured destiny. This adaptation of Garcia and Stohl’s novel is to the point, but it lacks much of the lush descriptiveness of the original. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough pages in the graphic novel to allow for vibrant images to take the place of those prose passages, so readers who only pick up the comic will miss out on some elements. Jean’s illustrations do their admirable best, however. Readers will be pleased that Ethan, Lena, and their friends look like actual teenagers, with Lena’s gravity-defying hair signifying her otherworldly nature. The mental communication between Ethan and Lena shines through strongly and helps solidify their relationship despite the sometimes choppy abridgment of the story. Overall, a worthy purchase where the novel series is popular. Grades 8-12. --Snow Wildsmith

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0141348518
• ISBN 13: 9780141348513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Illustrator: Cassandra Jean