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Emily the Strange explores her intriguing—and decidedly unusual—heritage in the fourth delightfully quirky novel starring the international fashion icon.

As the 13th Dark Girl, it is up to Emily to uncover the secret to the mysterious Black Rock that is connected to her ancestors' special talents. If she succeeds, she will come into her own as-yet-undefined power. But if she fails, control of the Black Rock will shift to a distant and more sinister branch of the family: the Shady Uncles. For the good of the whole world—not to mention herself!—Emily had better succeed!

Lavishly illustrated in trademark black and red, and filled with diary entries in Emily's unique voice, the story introduces a new adversary—a dastardly thought thief—and reunites Emily with characters from throughout the series in a grand conclusion to the four-book story arc!

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Fashion icon Emily the Strange is going back to school—all the way back to the eighteenth century—in her third lavishly illustrated and delightfully quirky adventure.

Traveling in her homemade Time-Out Machine, Emily is determined to uncover the truth behind a history class assignment. When she sets out to visit long-deceased relatives—documenting the trip with first-person diary entries and a generous amount of her trademark black-and-red artwork—the results are bound to be Strange!

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It's double trouble when Emily accidentally duplicates herself! What at first looks like the best thing to ever happen to hertwo Emilys mean half as much time in school for each of them and twice the mischief, right?soon turns sinister. Are the Emilys experiencing growing pains or is there something fundamentally...strange about them?

Again told in diary format, this second full-length novel features strong, unique first-person narrative along with Emily's signature "top 13" lists, sketches, doodles, and archival photographs.

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With her trademark black hair, black eyes, and black attitude, Emily the Strange is anticool, a subculture of one, and a follower of no one but herself. Just thirteen-years-old, Emily is a mad scientist, a cat lover, and a rock guitarist whose message to readers is that your greatest strength lies in being yourself.

In her first adventure, Emily arrives in the small, sinister town of Blackrock. Armed with only a blank notebook and a slingshot, she has no memory of how she got there, who she is, or even of her own name. The story that follows in Emily's first-person narrative is part mystery, part adventure, and wholly, delightfully strange.

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