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Cynthia Leitich Smith

Born: in Kansas City
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Lived in Illinois.

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children; Young adult readers

Website: http://CynthiaLeitichSmith.com
Cynthia Leitich Smith on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=cynthia+leitich+smith


Selected Titles

  Eternal
ISBN: 9781406338652 OCLC: 891939438

The author of Tantalize revisits a deliciously dark world where vampires vie with angels - and girls just want to have fangs. CLASSIFIED ADS: WANTED Personal assistant to Her Royal Highness. Duties: Whatever is asked, without hesitation, including but not limited to secretarial administrative, household, defence, blood donation, driving, companionship, prey disposal, and love slavery. At last, Miranda is the life of the party: all she had to do was die. Elevated and adopted by none other than the reigning King of the Mantle of Dracul, Miranda goes from high school theatre wannabe to glamorous royal fiend overnight. Meanwhile, Zachary, her reckless and adoring guardian angel, demoted to human guise as the princess's personal assistant, must try to save his girl's soul before all hell arrives, quite literally, on their castle doorstep. In alternating points of view, vampire Miranda and angel Zachary navigate a cut-throat eternal aristocracy as they play out a dangerous love story for the ages.

Eternal /
ISBN: 076364773X OCLC: 429022245

Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass. : 2010, ©2009.

When Miranda's guardian angel, Zachary, recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.

Jingle dancer /
ISBN: 068816241X OCLC: 41380326

Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress. Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing. Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared by generations of women in her family, and she hopes to dance at the next powwow. But she has a problem -- how will her dress sing if it has no jingles?

Rain is not my Indian name /
ISBN: 006029504X OCLC: 44728066

HarperCollins, New York : ©2001.

Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night that Galen would lose his. It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white Midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again -- at least through the lens of her camera. Hired by her town newspaper to photograph the campers, Rain soon finds that she has to decide how involved she wants to become in Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from the intertribal community she belongs to? And just how willing is she to connect with the campers after her great loss?

Santa knows
ISBN: 9780545053877 OCLC: 182943485

Scholastic, New York : 2007.

Armed with the facts, young Alfie sets out to prove to the world that Santa Claus does not exist but no one pays attention, especially his sister Noelle, whose only request of the man in red is a nicer big brother.

  Tantalize
ISBN: 9780739364017 OCLC: 219766539

Listening Library, New York : 2008.

Fans of the Twilight saga and Buffy the vampire slayer will enjoy Cynthia Leitich Smith's debut into dark fantasy. Quincie Morris has never felt more alone. Her hybrid-werewolf first love threatens to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever. And just as she and her uncle are about to unveil Austin's red-hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie transform the new hire, Henry Johnson, into a culinary Dark Lord before opening night? Will he be able to wow the crowd in fake fangs, a cheap cape, and red contact lenses? Or is there more to this earnest fresh face than meets the eye? As human and preternatural forces clash, a deadly love triangle forms and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who's playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything?

 

 

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