The Girl with the Destructo Touch

by Tom Sniegoski

  He is also the author of the groundbreaking quartet of teen fantasy novels entitled The Fallen, the first of which (Fallen) has been produced as a television movie for the ABC Family Channel. The two books in his Sleeper Conspiracy, a new series, Sleeper Code and Sleeper Agenda, have recently been released. With Christopher Golden, he is the coauthor of the dark fantasy series The Menagerie, as well as the young readers' fantasy series OutCast, recently optioned by Universal Pictures. Sniegoski and Golden also wrote the graphic novel BPRD: Hollow Earth, a spinoff of the fan favorite comic book series Hellboy.

  Sniegoski was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his wife, LeeAnne, and their Labrador retriever, Mulder. Please visit the author at www.sniegoski.com.

  ERIC POWELL is the writer and artist of the awardwinning comic book series The Goon for Dark Horse Comics. He has also contributed work to such comic titles as Arkham Asylum, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hell-boy: Weird Tales, Star Wars Tales, The Incredible Hulk, MAD Magazine, Swamp Thing, and The Simpsons.

  Published by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books a division of Random House, Inc., New York

  Text copyright © 2007 by Tom Sniegoski

  Illustrations copyright © 2007 by Eric Powell

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sniegoski, Tom.

  The girl with the destructo touch / by Thomas E. Sniegoski; [illustrations by Eric Powell]. p. cm. — (Billy Hooten, Owlboy)

  Summary: Billy Hooten's inquisitive, five-year-old neighbor inadvertently finds her way to Monstros, the underground city where Billy fights crime as the superhero Owlboy, and he must save her from the monstrous inhabitants.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-49723-9

  PZ7.S68033Gi 2007

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