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Lips Touch Three Times
Arthur A. Levine Books
ISBN 978-0-545-05585-7 HC
288 Pages
Ages 12 and up
5” by 8”

978-0-545-05586-4 PBK
288 Pages
Ages 12 & up
5 ¼” x 8”


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Lips Touch Three Times
by Laini Taylor
Illustrations by Jim DiBartolo

Everyone dreams of getting the kiss of a lifetime... but what if that kiss carried some unexpected consequences? A girl who's always been in the shadows finds herself pursued by the unbelievably attractive new boy at school, who may or may not be the death of her. Another girl grows up mute because of a curse placed on her by a vindictive spirit, and later must decide whether to utter her first words to the boy she loves and risk killing everyone who hears her if the curse is real. And a third girl discovers that the real reason for her transient life with her mother has to do with belonging – literally belonging – to another world entirely, full of dreaded creatures who can transform into animals, and whose queen keeps little girls as personal pets until they grow to child-bearing age.

From a writer of unparalleled imagination and emotional insight, three stories about the deliciousness of wanting and waiting for that moment when lips touch.



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Excerpt from LIPS TOUCH THREE TIMES
by Laini Taylor
Illustrations by Jim DiBartolo

There is a certain kind of girl the goblins crave. You could walk across a high school campus and point them out: not her, not her, her. The pert lovely ones with butterfly tattoos in secret places, sitting on their boyfriends' laps? No, not them. The girls watching the lovely ones sitting on their boyfriends' laps? Yes.
Them.
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.


From Lips Touch Three Times. Copyright © 2009 by Laini Taylor. Reprinted with permission by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved.