You think a fairy tale is just a story. What if it hides a message? All Clarity's mom ever gave her is the fairy tale storybook, Goblin Market. Her whole life, Clarity has helped care for her mother, a mindless, shuffling shell of a person. At sixteen, Clarity meets Audrey, a girl filled with grief and guilt overher brother who has been struck with the same affliction. With nothing but a cryptic clue from Goblin Market, Clarity and Audrey risk their lives to cure the people they love. Goblin Fruit is a YA paranormal novel featuring fast-paced action, heartbreaking decisions, and two unstoppable heroines. "Stayed up all night to finish reading this." --Brianna, Customer "An interesting twist on fairy tale creatures. You get hooked on the characters..." --James, Customer "Combines compelling characters, dire situations, science and magic...A very enjoyable read." -- Customer Buy it now!

Graceful tales of place, identity, and young lives in flux in the city of angels are offered by a distinctive new literary voice. All are shaped by the pop dreams and cultural divide that is Los Angeles.

Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.

From the author of the astounding must-read novel DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE, comes a vividly imaginative short story, GOBLIN FRUIT (from the award-winning short story collection LIPS TOUCH). Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an un-tucked shirt. Beware of souls that want too much. Kizzy's family are from the Old Country. They cut the heads off chickens, have anvils in their yard and sing songs in a language that her teachers have never heard of. They believe in talking foxes, witch soldiers and goblins who crave the souls of a particular type of girl. Girls who wish they were prettier, had normal relatives and, most of all, were noticed by the boy they have fallen for at school. Girls like Kizzy...

The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and story to life. SHORTLISTED in the V&A Illustration Awards and the World Illustration Awards. Breathing new life into the Victorian tradition of illustrated poems, this book reads like a picture story book. The stunning illustrations illuminate and drive the narrative forward as in all good story books. It tells the tale of the two sisters drifting apart as Laura succumbs to the forbidden fruit sold by the goblins, but the bonds of sisterhood prove strong. The poem has fascinated for generations and been the subject of various interpretations. This illustrated version brings the words and story alive for a new generation. Christina Rossetti is considered the foremost female poet of her time, and her poetry still resonates with women's lives today, as she entwines themes of sexuality, sisterhood, love and temptation in her work. All of these themes are encapsulated in Goblin Market. The book includes an introduction to the poem by novelist Kirsty Gunn, so all readers – for pleasure or study – can understand its riches.

The devastating drug, goblin fruit, is off the streets. Better yet, people have finally found a way to interact with their catatonic loved ones. By simply holding their hands, a gesture once taboo, they can travel into the shared dream world of Goblinton, a place of eternal summer. But all is not well in the summer world as it is suddenly plunged into winter, the queen of Goblinton falls into a deep depression, and, worst of all, people begin to go catatonic—their condition in the dream world, mirroring their illness in the real one. They become trapped in their own minds in both places. Unable to move or act for themselves, they are suffering horribly. Todd will stop at nothing to save his uncle and the world that keeps him free and living, even if he has to hurt people to do it.