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From the multi-award-winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection, comes a YA verse novel about LGBTQ+ desire, identity - and vampires.
The blood
Feeds the hunger
That threatens everything
It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.
Immy has been in love before – many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia smells like paint and peppermint tea. She wears her hair in a plait, and has a green thumb, and Immy is utterly besotted. Claudia has never been in love like this either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire. But a love like this can't last. The forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy. And within her mind clamour the voices, of all the others she has been, their desires, and their wrongs.
For fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Dean Atta.
"This poetic tale captures so much emotion through meaningful word choices, repetition, and line breaks. It's incredible how deep characterization comes through in so few words...Emotionally rich and gloriously queer." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[A] layered, hopeful novel in verse...By linking vampirism to themes of queer desire and community as well as repeating personal cycles, Grehan freshens an old trope, building both a central romance and lifetimes-long connections that are by turns realistically sweet and thorny." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Grehan's verse novel skilfully charts uncertainty, temptation and the course of a strange, desperate love." – The Guardian (UK)
"Grehan evocatively conjures Immy's tragic sense of isolation and hard-won self-acceptance." – The Financial Times (UK)
"A fresh, dark take on the vampire myth and desire, Baby Teeth shows vampires haunted by their pasts and memories, where immortality is not one long life but a broken patchwork of different experiences. It will twine around your heart and bite, ever so gently. I adored it." - Helen Corcoran, author of Queen of Coin and Whispers
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Meg Grehan's first YA novel, The Space Between, won the Eiís Dillon award for debut book at the 2018 Children's Books Ireland Awards. Her second book, The Deepest Breath, won the Judges' Special Prize at the CBI awards 2020, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in the UK, and was selected for the Read for Empathy reading list 2020.
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