title: Girl Defective
author: Howell, Simmone
description: In the tradition of High Fidelity and Empire Records, this is the literary soundtrack to Skylark Martin's strange, mysterious, and extraordinary summer.
  
  This is the story of a wild girl and a ghost girl; a boy who knew nothing and a boy who thought he knew everything.
  
  It's a story about Skylark Martin, who lives with her father and brother in a vintage record shop and is trying to find her place in the world. It's about ten-year-old Super Agent Gully and his case of a lifetime. And about beautiful, reckless, sharp-as-knives Nancy. It's about tragi-hot Luke, and just-plain-tragic Mia Casey. It's about the dark underbelly of a curious neighborhood. It's about summer, and weirdness, and mystery, and music.
  
  And it's about life and death and grief and romance. All the good stuff.