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Cecil Castellucci

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Cecil Castellucci is an author of young adult novels and comic books. Titles include Boy Proof, The Year of the Beasts (illustrated by Nate Powell), First Day on Earth, Rose Sees Red, Beige, The Queen of Cool The Plain Janes and Janes in Love (illustrated by Jim Rugg), Tin Star Stone in the Sky, Odd Duck (illustrated by Sara Varon) and Star Wars: Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure.

Her short stories have been published in various places including Black Clock, The Rattling Wall, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine and can be found in such anthologies such as After, Teeth, Truth & Dare, The Eternal Kiss, Sideshow and Interfictions 2 and the anthology, which she co-edited, Geektastic.

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	The Plain Janes (Janes, #1) by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Jim Rugg (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 7,295 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Sara Varon (Illustrations) 4.02 avg rating — 4,676 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Jason Fry, Phil Noto (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 4,066 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy Proof 3.47 avg rating — 3,354 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Matthew Mercer (Writer), Ashley Johnson (Writer) 3.96 avg rating — 2,324 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Janes in Love (Janes, #2) by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Jim Rugg (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 2,138 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shade, the Changing Girl, Volume 1: Earth Girl Made Easy by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Marley Zarcone (Artist) 3.70 avg rating — 1,828 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beige 3.63 avg rating — 1,498 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tin Star (Tin Star, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 1,247 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plain Janes - Omnibus Edition by Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author), Jim Rugg (Goodreads Author) (Artist) 3.76 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Cecil Castellucci

Janes (2 books)
by

Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author),

Jim Rugg (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

3.70 avg rating — 10,345 ratings

Shade, the Changing Girl (12 books)
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Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author),

Marguerite Sauvage (Illustrator),

Becky Cloonan (Illustrator),

Dan Parent (Illustrator),

Kelly Fitzpatrick (Goodreads Author)

3.78 avg rating — 3,176 ratings

Tin Star (2 books)
by

Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author)

3.73 avg rating — 1,712 ratings

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The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)

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Quotes by Cecil Castellucci (?)

“Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten.”
― Cecil Castellucci, Boy Proof

tags: earth, life, pain, world

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“I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.”
― Cecil Castellucci, Rose Sees Red

tags: consolation

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“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
― Cecil Castellucci, Boy Proof

tags: believe, life, ways

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January 2 is unofficially National Science Fiction Day in the U.S.,
a date chosen to correspond with Isaac Asimov's birthday.
Which science fiction comic collection should we read for January 2018?

This poll will open at 12:01 am Eastern time on Friday, December 1,
and will close at 11:59 pm Eastern time on Friday, December 22.

Divinity by Matt Kindt

3 votes, 60.0%

Alex + Ada, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Luna

2 votes, 40.0%

Valerian: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 by Pierre Christin

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Shade, the Changing Girl, Volume 1: Earth Girl Made Easy by Cecil Castellucci

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Cecil’s Quotes

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

tags: heartbreak, integrity, love

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