Young adult fiction series by Francesca Lia Block
Dangerous Angels, also known as the Weetzie Bat series, is a young adult fiction series by Francesca Lia Block. The series consists of seven novels: "Weetzie Bat", "Witch Baby", "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys", "Missing Angel Juan", "Baby Be-Bop", "Necklace of Kisses" and "Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat". The books follow main character, Weetzie Bat and her friends and family members, who all live in Los Angeles. 
The books include supernatural elements such as witches, genies, and ghosts, and has been described as magical realism or mythpunk.
The series title first appeared on the omnibus edition of the first five books, "Dangerous Angels", first published in 1998. . The omnibus edition was reprinted in 2007 and again in 2010. 
The novel series have won multiple awards such as the 1986 Shrout Fiction Award and the 1986 Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Award. 
Major themes.
The main theme throughout all of the "Dangerous Angels" stories is "tolerance through love". "Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys" is about the importance of loved ones and the natural and spiritual worlds. "Witch Baby"'s story is about the "danger of denying life's pain". "Weetzie Bat" is a transcendent coming-of-age story. The theme of "Missing Angel Juan" is stated by Michael Cart: "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 the book is meant as "a safety net of words for readers longing to feel at home with themselves".
Literary significance and reception.
Anne Osborn says of "Weetzie Bat" that "Weetzie and her friends live like the lilies of the field, yet their responsibility to each other and their love for the baby show a sweet grasp of the realities that matter". 
In 2005, Block received the Margaret Edwards Award "for outstanding contributions to young adult readers", for the Weetzie Bat books.
"Baby Be-Bop" controversy.
In June 2009, Block's book "Baby Be-Bop", which deals with the life of a gay teenager, was part of a controversy in West Bend, Wisconsin, where several parents' groups insisted that the book, among others, be removed from the local public library and publicly burned.
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