cover image A FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH

A FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH

Paul Fleischman, . . Candlewick, $5.99 (124pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2189-6

A trio of vain overprivileged high school girls experience horrifying symptoms of accelerated aging when they try their usual nasty tricks on a beautiful exchange student. PW described this spoof of young adult horror novels as "lavishly dosed with comic hyperbole." Ages 14-up. (May)