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  <name><![CDATA[Kami Garcia]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I grew up outside of Washington DC, but it always felt like I had one foot in the South. By the time I was thirteen, my family moved in with my grandmother and great-grandmother, and we had four generations of women living under the same roof - two born and bred in North Carolina. I grew up drinking sweet tea, eating vegetables cooked with a little bacon grease, and biscuits made from scratch. I mean, didn't everyone's great-grandma know how to skin a chicken, tat lace, and make dresses without a pattern? 

I wasn’t exactly like either of them. I wore a lot of black, a lot of rings, and spent hours writing in my journals. By the time I graduated high school, I had probably filled a hundred of them and gotten my friends more than a few dates with my poems. That was the beginning of writing for me. 

I have an MA in education, and taught in the DC area until I moved to Los Angeles ten years ago. In addition to writing YA fiction, I am a Reading Specialist and continue to teach and lead book groups for children and teens, part-time. I have learned more from my students than I ever learned in school. I still live in LA, with my husband, son, and daughter.

Random Stuff: I’m very superstitious and have lots of charms. I love disaster movies. And I could easily live on pizza and Diet Coke.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Washington DC</hometown>  <born_at>03/25/1972</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Beautiful Creatures]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kami Garcia]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Stohl]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.35</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>241</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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