Meanwhile, Laurel's parents are visited by Jeremiah Barnes, who is interested in buying their small plot of land near Orick, which they are selling to pay for the bookstore. Using David's microscope, they confirm that the blossom is a plant. Hesitant to tell her parents, Laurel confides in David, who is surprised but also remarks that the blossom resembles a pair of wings. She attempts to use an herbal salve of her mother's to treat it, but the zit only grows larger, until one day she wakes up with an enormous blue flower growing out of the small of her back. As Laurel and David grow closer, she tells him that she wasn't adopted by normal means she was left in a basket on her parents' doorstep when she was 3, with no memories except her name.Ī few weeks into the year, Laurel gets a large pimple on her back, which is unusual as she never gets pimples. At high school, Laurel finds she struggles to concentrate with the harsh lighting and confining classrooms but quickly befriends David, a handsome boy in her year, and Chelsea, a friendly girl with a crush on David who is fascinated by Laurel's strictly-vegan diet. Her adoptive parents buy a bookstore in Crescent City, California and move the family there, deciding to enrol Laurel in Del Norte High School-up to this point, she has been homeschooled. Laurel Sewell is a 15-year-old girl who has lived her whole life on her family's land near Orick, California. The series concludes with Destined, which was released on May 1, 2012. The third book in the series, Illusions, was released May 3, 2011.

The sequel to Wings, Spells, was released on May 4, 2010. Wings went on to become an international bestseller in 2010. It was also a Publishers Weekly Bestseller and made Pike the best-selling non-celebrity children's author to debut in 2009.

Wings was released in the US, UK, and Canada on May 5, 2009, and became a New York Times best seller in its first week of sales, reaching #1 on the Children's Chapter Books list in its second week. It is the first of four books about a fifteen-year-old girl who discovers she is a faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon. Wings is the debut, young-adult faerie novel by author Aprilynne Pike. Print ( hardcover, paperback) e-Book AudiobookĢ90 (US hardcover) 320 (US paperback) 356 (UK paperback)

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