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Cecil Castellucci

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http://www.goodreads.com/cecilcastellucci

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http://www.misscecil.com/

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Young Adult, Comics & Graphic Novels, Literature & Fiction

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Cecil Castellucci is an author of young adult novels and comic books, most notably Boy Proof and The PLAIN Janes. Upcoming in 2012 is her new hybrid prose / graphic novel The Year of the Beasts illustrated by Nate Powell.

She is also the author of First Day on Earth, Rose Sees Red, Beige, The Queen of Cool and Janes in Love. Her short stories can be found in various anthologies such as After, Teeth, Truth & Dare, The Eternal Kiss, Sideshow and Interfictions 2 and the anthology, which she co-edited, Geektastic.

She is the recipient of the California Book Award Gold Medal for her picture book Grandma's Gloves, illustrated by Julia Denos and the Shuster Award for Best Canadian Comic Book Writer for The Plain Janes.

She splits her time betwee...more

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The Year of the Beasts has arrived!

Hello my fine friends! It’s finally here! The Year of the Beasts written by me and illustrated by Nate Powell is finally here!

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“…a poignant and entertaining mixture of storytelling and nightmare.”–VOYA

Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be fir...

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Books by Cecil Castellucci

Average rating: 3.69 · 13,811 ratings · 2,364 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Jim Rugg 3.62 avg rating — 3,040 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Boy Proof 3.52 avg rating — 1,187 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Jim Rugg (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Beige 3.65 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Queen of Cool 3.36 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rose Sees Red 3.67 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	First Day on Earth 3.51 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Grandma's Gloves by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Julia Denos (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 77 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Year of the Beasts by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Nate Powell (Illustrations) 3.87 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Frost and the Mailman 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

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Quotes by Cecil Castellucci

“I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.”
― Cecil Castellucci, Rose Sees Red

tags: consolation

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“Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten.”
― Cecil Castellucci, Boy Proof

tags: earth , life , pain , world

11 people liked it

“It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.”
― Cecil Castellucci, The Plain Janes

10 people liked it

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“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: heartbreak , integrity , love

405 people liked it