"Karen Finneyfrock is an amazing poet so it is no surprise that her first novel is poetic. It is also hilarious, exciting and as painful as anybody's teenage years. Read it, please." —Sherman Alexie, National Book Award-Winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge. Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year. But then Celia meets Drake, the cool new kid from New York City who entrusts her with his deepest, darkest secret. When Celia's quest for justice threatens her relationship with Drake, she's forced to decide which is sweeter: revenge or friendship. This debut novel from Karen Finneyfrock establishes her as a bright, bold, razor-sharp new voice for teens, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door

Finneyfrock, Karen

Children's Books

Speak

That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge. Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year. But then Celia meets Drake, the cool new kid from New York City who entrusts her with his deepest, darkest secret. When Celia's quest for justice threatens her relationship with Drake, she's forced to decide which is sweeter: revenge or friendship. This debut novel from Karen Finneyfrock establishes her as a bright, bold, razor-sharp new voice for teens, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Viking Books for Young Readers

In her sixteen years of life, Starbird has never touched a dollar bill. She’s never been in a car. She’s never used a cell phone.
That’s because Starbird has always lived on the Free Family Farm, a commune in the woods of Washington State.
But all that is about to change. When Starbird gets her “Calling” to be a waitress at the Free Family’s restaurant in Seattle, she decides to leave behind the only home she’s ever known. 
Nothing could have prepared Starbird for the World Outside, or for what it would teach her about the Family—and herself.
From the author of The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door comes this hilarious and poignant story about finding your true calling in life.

Starbird Murphy and the World Outside

After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first, then screaming. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body politic, memory and, of course, poems about love. From the intensely personal, "How My Family Grieved,” to the political, "What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't a Pillar of Salt),” Finneyfrock engages the reader with the chiseled images of a precise storyteller.

Ceremony for the Choking Ghost: Poems by Karen Finneyfrock

Poetry

Write Bloody Publishing

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.The quirky tenants—a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by—rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad’s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

Welch, Craig

Wiggs, Susan

Bauermeister, Erica

Alcalá, Kathleen

Emerson, Kevin

Kallos, Stephanie

Dugoni, Robert

QUINN, JULIA

Shortridge, Jennie

Amster-Burton, Matthew

Ford, Clyde W.

Headley, Maria Dahvana

Stein, Garth

Caletti, Deb

Ford, Jamie

McCue, Frances

SUNDARESAN, INDU

Cassella, Carol

Rawles, Nancy

O'Brien, Kevin

Dietrich, William

Boling, Dave

Stump, Greg

Guterson, Mary

Beaudoin, Sean

Middleton, Jarret

Mountford, Peter

Levine, Stacey

Skoog, Ed

Bakke, Kit

Lasky, David

Hein, Teri

Selfors,Suzanne

George,Elizabeth

Larson, Erik.

Literary

Open Road Media

That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge. Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year. But then Celia meets Drake, the cool new kid from New York City who entrusts her with his deepest, darkest secret. When Celia's quest for justice threatens her relationship with Drake, she's forced to decide which is sweeter: revenge or friendship. This debut novel from Karen Finneyfrock establishes her as a bright, bold, razor-sharp new voice for teens, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Celia, hurt by her parents' separation, the loss of her friend, and a classmate's cruelty, has only her poetry for solace until Drake Berlin befriends her, comes out to her, and seeks her help in connecting with the boy he left behind.

La dulce venganza de Celia Door (Spanish Edition)

Siruela

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