Thicker Than Water
Published on 11. January 2007
272 pages
978-1-101-16085-5 (ISBN)
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A small town holds secrets beneath its tranquil façade and Kia is about to discover just how deep they go.
"Fans of Pete Hautman's Sweetblood will exult in the . . . bizarre subculture and respond to the questions Kai's intense experiences invite about the nature of true belonging."-Booklist
When does escape become obsession?
Kia is searching for an escape. From her mother's cancer. From her father's apathy. From her own rage. The pressure is building. There's a craving in her veins, a secret urge. She needs a way to let the inside out. But she knows she must resist. She knows she must find another way.
When she becomes immersed in an underground scene-goths who live as vampires-Kia thinks she's finally found that way. At the center of everything is the sexy and mysterious Damon. With his otherworldly presence he pulls Kia deep into the night, into a world where the unbelievable can be believed. the unreal made real, until Kia herself can no longer draw the line.
"Fans of Pete Hautman's Sweetblood will exult in the . . . bizarre subculture and respond to the questions Kai's intense experiences invite about the nature of true belonging."-Booklist
When does escape become obsession?
Kia is searching for an escape. From her mother's cancer. From her father's apathy. From her own rage. The pressure is building. There's a craving in her veins, a secret urge. She needs a way to let the inside out. But she knows she must resist. She knows she must find another way.
When she becomes immersed in an underground scene-goths who live as vampires-Kia thinks she's finally found that way. At the center of everything is the sexy and mysterious Damon. With his otherworldly presence he pulls Kia deep into the night, into a world where the unbelievable can be believed. the unreal made real, until Kia herself can no longer draw the line.
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Carla Jablonski is the author of dozens of best-selling middle-grade and young adult novels, writing under many names. She is the award-wining author of the graphic novel trilogy RESISTANCE (First Second Books), drawn by Leland Purvis. Her two YA novels for Razorbill, Thicker than Water and Silent Echoes, were both selected for the prestigious NYPL Books for the Teenage List. Among her many publications, she has written choose-your-own-adventure style books for Disney Press (most recently, A Matter of Time, based on the Tim Burton film), adapted Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic comics as YA novels for HarperCollins, and created the two series, Digital Detectives (Running Press) and The Zombie Squad (Scholastic). She has been a writer-in-residence at the Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center, a participant at Breadloaf and the Zoetrope All-Story conferences, and taught writing for middle-grade and young adult readers for MediaBistro. She is a graduate of Vassar College and has a master's degree from NYU. A former trapeze artist, an actor, and a singer, she lives in NYC.
