The Year of the Beasts (15 page)

Nate Powell
is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel
Swallow Me Whole
, which was a
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize finalist, the 2009 Eisner Award winner for Best Graphic Novel, and an Ignatz Award winner. Nate lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

This book was written in part with a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.

Text copyright © 2012 by Cecil Castellucci

Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Nate Powell

Published by Roaring Brook Press

Roaring Brook Press is a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership

175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Castellucci, Cecil 1969–

   The year of the beasts / Cecil Castellucci ; illustrated by Nate Powell. — 1st ed.

      p. cm.

   Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tessa tries to be happy when her crush, Charlie, falls for her younger sister, Lulu, and it becomes easier after she begins a secret relationship with Jasper, a social outcast who lives next door to Tessa’s best friend. Alternate chapters are in graphic novel form.

   ISBN 978-1-59643-686-2

[1.  Dating (Social customs)—Fiction.   2.  Sisters—Fiction.   3.  Secrets—Fiction.   4.  Best friends—Fiction.   5.  Friendship—Fiction.]   I.  Powell, Nate, ill.   II.  Title.

   PZ7.C26865Ye 2012

   [Fic]—dc23

2011031727

eISBN 9781596438255

First edition 2012