The Spider Children

"You have spider legs. You have fangs and venom. And you've never thought your own obscurity odd?"

Seventeen-year-old Spinneretta Warren doesn't just have a bizarre name. She's got eight spider legs to back it up, along with fangs, venom, and a pair of siblings as unusual as she is. But apart from the odd stare, nobody in Grantwood, California seems to care that Spinneretta and her family are human-spider hybrids.

But when her ninth cousin (and self-proclaimed magician) Mark shows up at their...