Title:
Fairy,
Texas
Author:
Margo
Bond Collins
Release
date: 2014
Genre:
Young
Adult, Paranormal
Book
Description:
Fairy,
Texas. A small town like any other.
Laney
Harris didn't want to live there. When her mother remarried and moved
them to a town where a date meant hanging out at the Sonic, Laney
figured that "boring" would have a whole new meaning. A new
stepsister who despised her and a high school where she was the only
topic of gossip were bad enough. But when she met the school
counselor (and his terminal bad breath), she grew suspicious.
Especially since he had wings that only she could see. And then there
were Josh and Mason, two gorgeous glimmering-eyed classmates whose
interest in her might not be for the reasons she hoped. Not to
mention that dead guy she nearly tripped over in gym class.
She
was right. Boring takes on an entirely new dimension in Fairy, Texas.
Excerpt
1:
Fairy
High could have fit into one wing of my old school. The three-story,
red brick building looked like it had been around for at least a
century—it actually had carvings over two of the doorways that read
“Men’s Entrance” and “Women’s Entrance.” I was glad to
see that none of the kids paid any attention to those instructions.
“Counselor’s
office,” I muttered to myself. At least I wasn’t starting in the
middle of a term—though given the fact that there were fewer than
500 students in the entire high school, I didn’t think I was going
to be able to go unnoticed, even in the general bustle of the first
day back from summer vacation.
I
walked through the door marked “Men’s Entrance,” just be
contrary, and faced a long hallway lined with heavy wooden doors. The
spaces in between the doors were filled with lockers and marble
staircases with ornate hand-rails flanked each end of the long
hallway. Students poured in behind me, calling out greetings to each
other and jostling me off to the side while I tried to get my
bearings. None of the doors obviously led to a main office; I was
going to have to walk the entire length of the hallway. And people
were already starting to stare and whisper.
God.
I hated being the new kid.
I
took a deep breath and stepped forward. I made it halfway down the
hall without seeing anything informative—all the doors had numbers
over them and many of them had name plaques, but neither of those
things did me any good since I didn’t know the name or office
number for the counselor. I was almost getting desperate enough to
ask Kayla, but of course she was nowhere to be seen.
I
turned back from scanning the halls for her and caught sight of the
first adult I’d seen—and almost screamed. As it was, I gasped
loudly enough for a guy walking past me to do a double take. The man
standing in the open doorway was tall, over six feet, and way
skinny—so emaciated that it looked like you ought to be able to see
his ribs through his shirt, if his shirt didn’t hang so loosely on
him. He had white hair that stuck out in tufts, thin lips, a sharp
nose, and pale blue eyes that narrowed as he watched the kids walk
past—and all the kids gave him a wide berth without even seeming to
notice that they did so. He stood in an empty circle while students
streamed around him in the crowded hallway.
But
none of that was what made me almost scream.
For
a moment, just as I’d turned toward him, I could have sworn that
I’d seen the shadow of two huge, black, leathery wings stretched
out behind him.
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