13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel: 1. Mystery2. A beautiful golem3. Souped-up slingshots4. Four black cats5. Amnesia6. Calamity Poker7. Angry ponies8. A shady truant officer9. Top-13 lists10. A sandstorm generator11. Doppelgängers12. A secret mission13. EarwigsEmily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.

Readers can join Emily, Mystery, Sabbath, Nee Chee, and Miles as they journey to the dark side of the moon, meet photogenic monsters in the darkroom, and explain exactly why there are some very good reasons to be afraid of the dark. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Emily manages to complete her last week at Rock and Roll High, summons the ghost of her favorite guitar player, and finds herself spending a day at traffic school with a extremely cool rocker.

Those who have ever been considered a little 'strange' will feel right at home in Emily's mysterious world--a place where kitty friends talk, the ghosts of famous weirdos come out to play, and reality is never quite what it seems. Original.

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