Young Adult Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore
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A Tale of Roses
by Emily Thompson
Thornrose dreams of a life beyond the cottage in the forest that she shares with her brother and sister. When a trio of young royals arrive at her doorstep, each carrying a magical rose grown by a mysterious woman, Thornrose glimpses the possibility ...
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Finding Courage
by Emma Grondines
Lea and her brothers are normal teenagers living normal lives in Vancouver with their parents. (Well, except for the part where they’re quintuplets . . . and ninjas in training.) But that normalcy is turned upside down when, one day, they get home ...
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The Story of Chissa
by Warren Spence
When Chissa’s grandmother sends him into town to sell the leather she’s made from cow hide, he uses the money to buy himself a fancy kettle, a bullwhip and a harmonica. Chissa’s newfound wealth is the talk of the reserve, but the greedy Chief thinks ...
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Dagger of Urachadh
Attack from the Underworld by Karen E. Mosier
“Take me far, far away, Faster than a wink of an eye I pray, To the land where the Darach roam, To the land of the magical stones, To the Peoples of the mountain, Forest, bog, hill, and river, Great Everything bring me thither.” A young Saskatchewan ...
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Waves of Light
by Maggie Logan
The blood of the Tuatha de Dannan tribe flows through the young Irish princess, Isolde, who believes in the Old Ways. Isolde honours earth, air, wind, and fire and worships the Mother Goddess, Danu, who breathed life into the Isle of Eire. But just ...
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Red
by Sabrina Voerman
Red is a page-turning historical fantasy that invokes the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the horror of the Brothers Grimm. The year is 1891; the place, Bezidu Nou, Romania. For four hundred years, the townsfolk have been telling the tale of a ...
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Waves of Darkness
by Maggie Logan
In a Medieval Ireland pulled between tradition and change, ancient faiths and the New Religion, otherworldly magic and treacherous human politics, young Princess Isolde of Dunlace, yearns for freedom from a castle that has come to feel like a ...
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Mothman's Vengeance
by Marilyn Brokaw Hall
Every year since 2002, over the third weekend of September, the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia holds its Mothman Festival. But starting back in November 1966, locals reported dozens of disturbing sightings of a winged man near the Silver ...
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The Headless Wolf
by Joseph E. Barrera
This is a story of courage and kindness between two lost children and two desperate wolves. In 2016 a pair of wolves were discovered in a northern county of California. They probably wandered down from Canada. But who actually knows from where, when ...
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The Polish Cavalier
by Joseph E. Barrera
With the help of special armor, a singing sword, and a magnificent horse, a 15 year old boy saves Poland from an invasion by 10,000 Mongol horsemen. In present day Poland a trumpeter appears every hour in a tower of St. Mary's Cathedral in Krakow ...
