I am Princess X

Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libbydrew the pictures, May wrote the tales and their heroine Princess Xslayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginationscould conjure. Once upon a few years later, Libby was in the carwith her mum, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. Whenthe car went over the side, Libby passed away and Princess X died withher.Once upon a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering thestreets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window. Princess X? WhenMay looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches.Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around awebcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores thewebcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby'sstory and Princess X online. And that means that only one person couldhave started this phenomenon — her best friend Libby ... who lives.nbsp;

Commended for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2016

“ "Priest's YA debut is an engrossing cyberthriller packed with a puzzling mystery, crackerjack detective work, and an eerie, atmospheric sense of place. Teens who roll their eyes at adults out of touch with Internet culture will eat this up." -- Booklist , starred review "An excellent book with loads of cross-genre and cross-format appeal. Highly recommended." -- School Library Journal, starred review "Fresh and contemporary, this hybrid novel/comic packs a lot of plot in a relatively short book, but its strongest suit may be Priest's keen understanding of the chasmic gap between the way teens and adults engage in the landscape of the Internet." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review”

Praise for I Am Princess X"An engrossing cyberthriller packed with a puzzling mystery, crackerjack detective work, and an eerie, atmospheric sense of place." --Booklist, starred review"Fresh and contemporary, this hybrid novel/comic packs a lot of plot... but its strongest suit may be Priest's keen understanding of the chasmic gap between the way teens and adults engage in the landscape of the Internet." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review"A tantalizing, page-turner of a mystery." --School Library Journal, starred review"Readers will likely swallow this book in a single gulp... compelling and exciting." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Cherie Priest is the author of I Am Princess X, her debut young adult novel which earned three starred reviews and was a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. She is also the author of more than a dozen adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels, including Boneshaker, which won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. She lives in Seattle, Washington and can be found online at and @cmpriest.
Kali Ciesemier's work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony, Mental Floss, and many other publications. She lives in New York. Please visit her website at and follow her on Twitter at @kalidraws.

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