Fantasy & Magic
A Cat of Artimus Pride
Claire starts researching her town's history, but with the help of a bossy 100-year-old cat named Cortez she finds out much more than she expected.
"…a style that combines light-hearted humour with some serious but digestible, statements on the environment." - Calgary Herald
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A Girl Called Tennyson
Anne "Tenn" Tennyson Miller's adventure begins during an ordinary ferry trip, but reality soon melts away as Tenn is transported to the fantasy land of Greensward. When she arrives in Greensward, Tenn is elected to rescue her new friend, Una, who has been spirited away to a nearby country occupied by evil forces determined to destroy the harmony of …
Above
A gorgeous urban fantasy about dangers outside and in.
Matthew has always lived in Safe, a community hidden far beneath the pipes and tunnels of the city Above. The residents fled to Safe years before to escape the Whitecoats and their cruel experiments, and now Matthew is responsible for both the keeping of Safe's stories and for Ariel—a golden-h …
From AboveThe wings rustle after her, dry and unbending, catching the light and spreading it soft, white on white on white. In the morning, the house glows like your mama's arms: sourceless light and iridescence.I read that word in a thick old book once. When I went to Jack to ask what it meant, he held his hands out and they glowed so gentle I thought they might kiss the air, and since that day I wanted a place that was iridescent, that lit without burning. Being in love is sort of like that, when it's real. When it's true.It's like that to watch Ariel smile.
After Hamelin
Implicit in many folk and fairy tales is the question, 'Then what?'
After Hamelin picks up the story where the Robert Browning poem -- or other tellings of The Pied Piper of Hamelin -- leaves off. In a quest that is both contemporary and timeless, Richardson creates a magical world through inventive wordplay, uninhibited imagination and a facilit …
All Good Children
It's the middle of the twenty-first century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. Maxwell Connors, a seventeen-year-old prankster, misfit and graffiti artist, observes the changes with growing concern, especially when his younger sister, Ally, is targeted. …