Robin McKinley

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

The Blue Sword

The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.

Spindle's End

The winner of the Newbery Award for The Hero and the Crown returns to the fairy tale of the Beauty and the Beast to create a haunting portrayal of the transformative power of love. Reprint. PW.

Rose Daughter

A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important advisor to the new Master, a former priest of Fire.

Chalice

A retelling of the adventures of Robin Hood and his band of outlaws who live in Sherwood Forest in twelfth-century England.

The Outlaws of Sherwood

When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.

Dragonhaven

"Magic is illegal in Newworld, so Maggie struggles to explain the strange shadows--that only she can see--that seem to accompany her new stepfather everywhere"--

Shadows

When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from the elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise - to send one daughter to the Beast's castle, with no guarantee that she will be seen again. Beauty accepts the challenge, and there begins an extraordinary story of magic and love that overcomes all boundaries. This is another spellbinding and emotional tale embroidered around a fairytale from Robin McKinley, an award-winning American author.

A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Beauty

Peter Dickinson

Presents six short stories about the mythical creatures associated with the element of water.

Tales of Elemental Spirits

Water

Sunshine needed a place to be alone with her thoughts, but vampires never entered her mind.

Sunshine

An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm—in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy (The New York Times). Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her. She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment . . . But modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. There is no honor in killing dragons. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history. That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the king’s troop is assembled: “The Black Dragon has come . . . Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. Maur has awakened.”

The Hero and the Crown

Ebon

Imaginary Lands

Maddy, a young woman who runs sheep on her family farm, develops an unusual relationship with an elusive mountain creature called a fey.

The Stone Fey

Spanning a time period of thousands of years, this collection for young adults offers five suspenseful stories, including "Hellhound" and "Fireworm," incorporating the powerful and enchanting element of fire.

Fire

Vous croyez connaître l'histoire de la Belle et la Bête ? Pourtant, celle-ci ne commence pas par « Il était une fois... ». Belle ne l'est pas, belle ; la grâce et le charme sont allés à ses deux sœurs. Son prénom, elle le doit à son esprit et à l'ironie de la vie. Mais peu lui importe, elle fuit les mondanités et n'a que faire des robes élégantes. Elle leur préfère les vieux livres et les longues cavalcades. L'atout de Belle, c'est son fort caractère, qui lui sera bien utile. Car son père est ruiné. Bientôt, ils partent pour le Nord, cette étrange contrée où vivent lutins, sorciers et dragons. Et là-bas, la Bête se cache...

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