Normally, Britt listens patiently when we tell her the family-friendly stories from ConFusion, but this year was different. When Angie told her that we had met Scott Westerfeld, she freaked out. It turns out that the Uglies series was a huge hit at Girl Scout camp over the summer, and she's been dying to read them. Unfortunately, she had forgotten the name of the books, so hadn't ever been able to ask for them. That made it even more disappointing that the con had sold out of the books - we had been planning to get her an autographed copy.

She's home from school again tomorrow - they had today off for MLK Day and tomorrow for Records Day - and she's still getting over her cold, so I thought I'd stop on the way home and get a copy at Barnes & Noble.

Nope. They had a couple copies of Scott's other books, but there was a large gap at his part of the "Teen" section, and not a copy of "Uglies" to be found. I'm not sure I've ever had that happen before for a F/SF book. I've never even had any trouble getting a copy of the Harry Potter books.

I'm impressed, and I don't impress easily.

(Angie just looked, and the Birmingham Borders has it, so I'll go in the morning before Britt gets up.)