With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the Gray Death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure.

"Healer Evora is turned into a hideous ogre by the fairy Lucinda after rejecting a proposal, and has only a few months to find a love to reverse the curse"--

In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.

Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.

In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward.

In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's Puddocky, a young maiden who has been transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly-honed magical abilities to charm a prince into marriage.

In this humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The princess and the pea, Lorelei must pass many difficult tests in order to prove that she is a true princess and win the hand of Prince Nicholas.

Gwendolyn Carlisle loves fairies, perhaps too much. On her birthday, she receives the precious kiss necklace which has been passed down from mother to daughter ever since Peter Pan gave it to Wendy Darling. That night, Gwendolyn has the first of her visions-tantalizing, lifelike visions, almost as if she were actually in Fairy Haven. She sees animaltalent fairy Beck give a pie to wise Mother Dove and hears the voices of water-talent Rani and even...

In a retelling of the Grimm Brothers' "The golden goose," the good-natured son of a baker wins the heart of a princess, with the help of a fairy and a magic goose.

In Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable charactersand much, much more. She advises you about what to do when you feel stuckand how to use helpful criticism. Best of all, she offers writing exercises that will set your imagination on fire.