Goat Girls: Two Weetzie Bat Books

Francesca Lia Block. HarperCollins Publishers, $7.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-059434-3

Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books divide down gender lines in two paperback collections: Beautiful Boys (which contains Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop) and Goat Girls (which consists of Witch Baby and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.

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