Cecil Castellucci, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2333-3
Debut author Castellucci gives voice to a memorable teenage narrator, Victoria Jurgen, living in Hollywood. A senior at Melrose Prep, she has set her sights on becoming valedictorian. She not only aces her AP classes, is photographer for the school...
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Cecil Castellucci, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (166p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2720-1
Libby Brin, the Queen of Cool, is bored. "Everything is boring
." The 16-year-old finds no excitement in her classes or even her friends—beautiful Perla, whose "every move results in a disco effect"; Mike Dutko, to whom Perla...
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Cecil Castellucci, Author . Candlewick $16.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3066-9
When Katy’s mother leaves for an archeological expedition, the Canadian teen is sent to live with her father—a legendary punk rock drummer and recovering drug addict nicknamed The Rat—in Los Angeles. Katy knows she is “incurab
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Cecil Castellucci. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59643-775-3
In this intergalactic twist on Casablanca, 14-year-old Tula Bane is the lone human on a remote space station after being left for dead by a corrupt cult figure known as Brother Blue. She scrapes by as a trader, dependent on her ability to read body...
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Cecil Castellucci, illus. by Julia Denos, Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3168-0
The narrator’s beloved grandmother is a gardener extraordinaire, a woman who is always “on her knees in the dirt, with her gloves on, talking to her roses, scolding the succulents, and laughing with the birds-of-paradise.” When Grandma falls ill and
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Cecil Castellucci, illus. by Nate Powell. Roaring Brook, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59643-686-2
Castellucci (First Day on Earth) and comics artist Powell (The Silence of Our Friends) mix narrative and graphic storytelling to produce an innovative, moody story about jealousy and grief. Through Castellucci’s prose, readers learn about 15-year-old
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Cecil Castellucci, Author, Jim Rugg, Author . DC Comics/Minx $9.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1115-8
DC Comics' imprint of graphic novels for girls, Minx, starts off with a bang with this elegant story of art in the suburbs. As Jane walks past a sidewalk café in Metro City, a terrorist's bomb goes off. Her parents, overtaken by fear,
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Cecil Castellucci, Author, Jim Rugg, Author . DC/Minx $9.99 (151p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1387-9
The second book of the PLAIN Janes series returns to the four Janes of suburban town Kent Waters and their public art “attacks” as People Loving Art in Neighborhoods (PLAIN). This time the story line is sprinkled with bits of romance as...
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Cecil Castellucci. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-338-12549-8
In this introspective drama, a young woman seeks refuge from her dysfunctional life by cosplaying as her favorite comic book character. As hero and occasional villain Gargantua, Edan Kupferman feels confident enough to handle anything, including her
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Cecil Castellucci, Marley Zarcone, and Ande Parks. DC, $16.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-7099-5
One of the best-loved heroes from Vertigo’s 1990s heyday is back with a different gender and a lot of modern twists as written by YA novelist Castellucci. Alien girl Loma is sick of her home planet, Meta. She steals the original Shade’s dimension-ben
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Cecil Castellucci and Flavia Biondi. Berger Books, $19.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-5067-2910-7
In this brisk futuristic drama from Castellucci (The Shade), botanist Maeve Lindholm, frantically trying to preserve the biosphere on a dying 2042 Earth, is stymied by government restrictions and skeptics. She’s pulled through a wormhole to a...
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