part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinks when she listens to her grandmother's folktales about sacred flowers and family guardians

their human and turtle friends

and administrators

casting a spell that brings readers deep into the experience of growing up

Read along to find out

I Was a Teenage Death God Children's Zoo Books part-Hawaiian Anna Leilani Kamaʻehu thinksHIGH SCHOOL IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT BASICALLY BEING A DEATH GOD Every time seventeen year old Charlie Ford touches someone, they absorb seconds of their life . . . which adds up when Charlie has no way of giving that time back. It feels like enough of a curse without Louthe bratty bully of a ghost whos hung around Charlie since childhoodforcing them to hand over that stolen life for her to use. Charlie will steal life from whomever Lou tells them to,