Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories (Girl Goddess No. 9)

Welcome to Girl Goddess #9, a collection of nine stories about girls by the author of Weetzie Bat.  Here in these pages are girl goddesses of every age and shape and size, wearing combat boots and spiky hair or dressed all in white.  One girl has two moms, another has no mother at all but a strange blue-skinned elf that lives in her closet.  One is a rock-star groupie, another loves dancing and reading peotry and having picnics in the backyard when the moon is full.  Best best girlfriends, lovers gay and straight.  Baby goddesses, singing goddesses, dancing goddesses, writing goddesses-all discovering that the world is not a simple place and that there is more than one way to live.

Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat; the book collections Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books and Roses and Bones: Myths, Tales, and Secrets; the illustrated novella House of Dolls; the vampire romance novel Pretty Dead; and the gothic werewolf novel The Frenzy. Her work is published around the world.

Steve Scott is the illustrator of Splish Splash by Joan Bransfield Graham and is a children's book designer. He lives in New York City.