Lips Touch: Three Times

Three stories of supernatural romance, each turning on a kiss, make up this collection by Laini Taylor, with illustrated preludes by Jim Di Bartolo. In the first, Kizzy, a modern teenager eager to fit in, forgets the old warnings she grew up with and falls for a stranger who is really a goblin. In the second, set in British colonial India, Anamique has lived her whole life under a curse placed on her at birth that keeps her from speaking. In the third, fourteen-year-old Esmé discovers that something not human lives inside her. Taylor draws on folklore and fairy tales to write about longing, choice and danger. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.