Author | Francesca Lia Block |
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Cover artist | Suza Scalora |
Language | English |
Genre | Young adult fiction |
Publisher | Harper Collins Publishers |
Publication date | 1998 |
Publication place | USA |
Media type | Print (paperback, e-book) |
Pages | 478 (1st edition) |
ISBN | 0-06-440697-0 |
OCLC | 526057852 |
Dangerous Angels, also known as the Weetzie Bat series, is a young adult fiction series by Francesca Lia Block. The series consists of seven novels: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, Baby Be-Bop, Necklace of Kisses and Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat. The books follow main character, Weetzie Bat and her friends and family members, who all live in Los Angeles.
The books include supernatural elements such as witches, genies, and ghosts, and has been described as magical realism or mythpunk.
The series title first appeared on the omnibus edition of the first five books, Dangerous Angels, first published in 1998. .[1] The omnibus edition was reprinted in 2007 and again in 2010.
The novel series have won multiple awards such as the 1986 Shrout Fiction Award and the 1986 Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Award.