Dangerous Angels
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Dangerous Angels is a young adult fiction series by Francesca Lia Block
. It is a compilation of five novels: Weetzie Bat
, Witch Baby
, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
, Missing Angel Juan
, and Baby Be-Bop. The stories are about Weetzie Bat and her friends and family's lives in Los Angeles including witches, genies, and ghosts on their journeys to find acceptance, love, and a connection.
:
Weetzie Bat meets her best friend Dirk, who happens to be gay, at school and together they have grand adventures around Los Angeles comforting each other when they get hurt on their quest to find their ducks, or soul mates. Grandma Fifi gives Weetzie a genie
lamp which gives her three wishes which are granted and their lives change forever with unforeseen ramifications.
Witch Baby
:
Witch Baby, a purple eyed girl who lives with Weetzie Bat, My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man, and the rest of the kin does not know where she belongs in the world. As she tires of tormenting her sister, Cherokee, Witch Baby happens to meet a boy Angel Juan who she instantly knows is her soul mate and through him realizes what a family should be. She goes on a quest to find her mother in hopes of finding out where she belongs, to find out that her mother really does not care about her. In the end she misses her family and realizes it is with them she belongs.
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
:
The grown-ups in the family are off filming their new movie, leaving Cherokee to look after Witch Baby who has locked herself in the shed refusing to eat because she misses Angel Juan so desperately. To leer her out Cherokee makes her a pair of wings, which transform Witch Baby. The girls decide to start a band with Angel Juan and Raphael, but when they go to perform they all freeze. Cherokee makes the rest of the band members magical items which makes them into one of the hottest bands, until they get caught up in the world of drugs, sex, and jealousy. Cherokee takes away the magical gifts after realizing what it has done to them, making them re-examine their choices.
Missing Angel Juan
:
Angel Juan left for New York City and Witch Baby is desperately missing him, and when he stops writing she knows something has happened to him. She goes in search of him staying at the apartment of Weetzie Bat’s deceased father, Charlie Bat, which happens to be haunted by him. Together the ghost of Charlie Bat and Witch Baby trace Angel Juan’s steps to a ‘man’ named Cake who she must rescue him from without getting herself captured as well.
Baby Be-Bop:
A prequel to the other stories, it takes you on the journey of Dirk’s life before meeting Weetzie Bat. While living with Grandma Fifi in high school Dirk struggles with his sexuality and how to come out to Pup, his best friend and who he thinks is his soul mate. Though Pup feels the same he refuses to come out and starts dating a girl leaving Dirk heartbroken. After being beat up by a bunch of anti-gay guys he crashes at home and starts dreaming of his ancestors, which help him come to terms with who he is through their life stories.
Individual stories have more individualized themes etched within them. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys is about the importance loved ones and the natural and spiritual worlds.
Witch Baby’s magical story is about the “danger of denying life's pain.”
Weetzie Bat is a transcendent coming of age story. The strong theme of Missing Angel Juan Cart states best as, “love, in its infinite varieties, is both humankind's natural estate and heart-magic strong enough to redeem any loss.”
In Baby Be-Bop the theme is finding love for oneself and is “a safety net of words for readers longing to feel at home with themselves.”
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!Award !! Year !! Result
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| Shrout Fiction Award
|1986
|Winner
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| Emily Chamberlian Cook Poetry Award
|1986
|Winner
|-
|Best Books of the Year Citation ALA
|1986
|Winner
|-
|YASD, Best Book Award, Recommended Books for Reluctant Young-Adult Readers
|1989
|Winner
|-
|Phoenix Award
,
|2009
|Winner
|-
|Recommended Books for Reluctant Young-Adult Readers,
|1990
|Citation
|-
| ALA Best Books of the Year
|1991
|Winner
|-
|Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
|1991
|Citation
|-
Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block is the author of adult and young adult fiction, short stories, screenplays and poetry, most famously the Weetzie Bat series. Block wrote her first book, Weetzie Bat, while a student at UC Berkeley; it was published in 1989 by Harper Collins. She is known for her use of imagery,...
. It is a compilation of five novels: Weetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat is a young adult novel, the first written by American author Francesca Lia Block, originally published in 1989. It is the first in her Dangerous Angels series....
, Witch Baby
Witch Baby
Witch Baby is the second book in the Dangerous Angels series of novels written by Francesca Lia Block. It follows the adventures of Witch Baby, a young purple eyed girl who lives with Weetzie Bat, My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man, and the rest of their crazy clan.Witch Baby is trying to find her place...
, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys is the third book in the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block. It focuses on Cherokee, the daughter of Weetzie Bat, and her friends as they start a band, find success, and deal with the corruption of their spirits.-Plot summary:While the grown-ups are away...
, Missing Angel Juan
Missing Angel Juan
Missing Angel Juan is the fourth book in the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block. The plot revolves around Witch Baby as she travels to New York City to find her love Angel Juan and bring him back home to Los Angeles.-Plot:...
, and Baby Be-Bop. The stories are about Weetzie Bat and her friends and family's lives in Los Angeles including witches, genies, and ghosts on their journeys to find acceptance, love, and a connection.
Plot
Weetzie BatWeetzie Bat
Weetzie Bat is a young adult novel, the first written by American author Francesca Lia Block, originally published in 1989. It is the first in her Dangerous Angels series....
:
Weetzie Bat meets her best friend Dirk, who happens to be gay, at school and together they have grand adventures around Los Angeles comforting each other when they get hurt on their quest to find their ducks, or soul mates. Grandma Fifi gives Weetzie a genie
Jinn
Jinn are supernatural beings in Arab folklore and Islamic teachings.Jinn may also refer to:* Jinn , a Japanese band* Qui-Gon Jinn, a character in the Star Wars universe...
lamp which gives her three wishes which are granted and their lives change forever with unforeseen ramifications.
Witch Baby
Witch Baby
Witch Baby is the second book in the Dangerous Angels series of novels written by Francesca Lia Block. It follows the adventures of Witch Baby, a young purple eyed girl who lives with Weetzie Bat, My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man, and the rest of their crazy clan.Witch Baby is trying to find her place...
:
Witch Baby, a purple eyed girl who lives with Weetzie Bat, My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man, and the rest of the kin does not know where she belongs in the world. As she tires of tormenting her sister, Cherokee, Witch Baby happens to meet a boy Angel Juan who she instantly knows is her soul mate and through him realizes what a family should be. She goes on a quest to find her mother in hopes of finding out where she belongs, to find out that her mother really does not care about her. In the end she misses her family and realizes it is with them she belongs.
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys is the third book in the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block. It focuses on Cherokee, the daughter of Weetzie Bat, and her friends as they start a band, find success, and deal with the corruption of their spirits.-Plot summary:While the grown-ups are away...
:
The grown-ups in the family are off filming their new movie, leaving Cherokee to look after Witch Baby who has locked herself in the shed refusing to eat because she misses Angel Juan so desperately. To leer her out Cherokee makes her a pair of wings, which transform Witch Baby. The girls decide to start a band with Angel Juan and Raphael, but when they go to perform they all freeze. Cherokee makes the rest of the band members magical items which makes them into one of the hottest bands, until they get caught up in the world of drugs, sex, and jealousy. Cherokee takes away the magical gifts after realizing what it has done to them, making them re-examine their choices.
Missing Angel Juan
Missing Angel Juan
Missing Angel Juan is the fourth book in the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block. The plot revolves around Witch Baby as she travels to New York City to find her love Angel Juan and bring him back home to Los Angeles.-Plot:...
:
Angel Juan left for New York City and Witch Baby is desperately missing him, and when he stops writing she knows something has happened to him. She goes in search of him staying at the apartment of Weetzie Bat’s deceased father, Charlie Bat, which happens to be haunted by him. Together the ghost of Charlie Bat and Witch Baby trace Angel Juan’s steps to a ‘man’ named Cake who she must rescue him from without getting herself captured as well.
Baby Be-Bop:
A prequel to the other stories, it takes you on the journey of Dirk’s life before meeting Weetzie Bat. While living with Grandma Fifi in high school Dirk struggles with his sexuality and how to come out to Pup, his best friend and who he thinks is his soul mate. Though Pup feels the same he refuses to come out and starts dating a girl leaving Dirk heartbroken. After being beat up by a bunch of anti-gay guys he crashes at home and starts dreaming of his ancestors, which help him come to terms with who he is through their life stories.
Major themes
The major theme throughout the stories combined to make Dangerous Angels is “tolerance through love.”Individual stories have more individualized themes etched within them. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys is about the importance loved ones and the natural and spiritual worlds.
Witch Baby’s magical story is about the “danger of denying life's pain.”
Weetzie Bat is a transcendent coming of age story. The strong theme of Missing Angel Juan Cart states best as, “love, in its infinite varieties, is both humankind's natural estate and heart-magic strong enough to redeem any loss.”
In Baby Be-Bop the theme is finding love for oneself and is “a safety net of words for readers longing to feel at home with themselves.”
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Award !! Year !! Result
|-
| Shrout Fiction Award
|1986
|Winner
|-
| Emily Chamberlian Cook Poetry Award
|1986
|Winner
|-
|Best Books of the Year Citation ALA
|1986
|Winner
|-
|YASD, Best Book Award, Recommended Books for Reluctant Young-Adult Readers
|1989
|Winner
|-
|Phoenix Award
Phoenix Award
The Phoenix Award is awarded annually to a book originally published in English twenty years previously which did not receive a major award at the time of its publication....
,
|2009
|Winner
|-
|Recommended Books for Reluctant Young-Adult Readers,
|1990
|Citation
|-
| ALA Best Books of the Year
|1991
|Winner
|-
|Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
|1991
|Citation
|-