13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel: Mystery A beautiful golem Souped-up slingshots Four black cats Amnesia Calamity Poker Angry ponies A shady truant officer Top-13 lists A sandstorm generator Doppelgängers A secret mission Earwigs Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast . . . and pointing and laughing.