02503cam a2200409 i 4500 188010788 TxAuBib 20141125120000.0 131024s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013953536 9780763664732 0763664731 TxAuBib rda Monstrous affections : an anthology of beastly tales / edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant. First edition 2014. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014. 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Junior Library Guild selection."--Back cover. Moriabe's Children / Paolo Bacigalupi -- Old souls / Cassandra Clare -- Ten rules for being an intergalactic smuggler (the successful kind) / Holly Black -- Quick hill / M.T. Anderson -- The diabolist / Nathan Ballingrud -- This whole demoning thing / Patrick Ness -- Wings in the morning / Sarah Rees Brennan -- Left foot, right / Nalo Hopkinson -- The Mercurials / G. Carl Purcell -- Kitty Capulet and the invention of underwater photography / Dylan Horrocks -- Son of abyss / Nik Houser -- A small wild magic / Kathleen Jennings -- The new boyfriend / Kelly Link -- The woods hide in plain sight / Joshua Lewis -- Mothers, lock up your daughters because they are terrifying / Alice Sola Kim. An anthology of stories explores the intersection of fear and romance, ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders. Band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side by side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Explore ambition and sacrifice, loneliness and rage, love requited and avenged, and the boundless potential for connection, even across extreme borders. Young Adult. 20141125. Monsters Juvenile fiction. Monsters Fiction. Short stories. Fantasy. Horror tales. Fantasy fiction. Horror stories. Link, Kelly,. Grant, Gavin J.,. TXLVP