But it doesn't matter if Mab is real or imagined, Barbie thought, as long as I can see her." Mab, with her crabby commentary and no-holds-barred opinions, gives Barbie the strength she needs to face the horrors casting a shadow over her life in sunny, shimmering California. Maybe there really are girls the size of pinkies with hair the color of the darkest red oleander blossoms and skin like the greenish-white underbellies of calla lilies. Once upon a time, in the bubble-gum-snapping, glitter polish-wearing, lip-gloss-applying San Fernando Valley, a gentle girl named Barbie met a feisty fairy named Mab: "Maybe Mab was real.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And finally it is the story of Mab, a pinkie-sized, magenta-haired, straight-talking fairy, who may or may not be real but who helps Barbie and Griffin uncover the strength beneath the pain, and who teaches that love-like a sparkling web of light spinning around our bodies and our souls-is what can heal even the deepest scars. It is the story of Griffin Tyler, whose androgynous beauty hides the dark pain he holds inside. This is the story of Barbie Marks, who dreams of being the one behind the Cyclops eye of the camera, not the voiceless one in front of it who longs to run away to New York City where she can be herself, not some barley flesh-and-blood version of the plastic doll she was named after. įrom the author of Weetzie Bat comes a magical, mesmerizing tale of transformation.
A too beautiful boy with a secret he can never share.
A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. Ī tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A.
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