Edited by Trisha Telep, Running Press Teens, $9.95 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7624-3949-2
"Paranormal love" may be the subtitle, but it's better to approach this anthology as paranormal, period. Most of the writers are more occupied with communicating the otherworldly apparatus of their tales than with supernaturally inflected romance....
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-545-42494-3
Book two of Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle shifts from character-driven voyage of discovery to more of a paranormal thriller, ratcheting up the violence as the plot grows more complex. After the transformative events at Cabeswater in The Raven Boys, the...
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Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton. Scholastic Audio, , unabridged, 11 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-545-64908-7
In the final book of Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, Richard Gansey’s quest to find the lost king Glendower is only part of the sprawling, fascinatingly complex plot, weaving together past and future, secrets and prophecies, with a colorful cast of...
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-545-42498-1
“What a strange constellation they all were.” Such is Richard Gansey’s assessment of the teenage magical dreamers, psychic amplifiers, scryers, and ghosts who have been his closest companions in his efforts to find the sleeping Welsh king Glendower...
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-545-42496-7
Tension escalates in Henrietta, Va. (as does the body count), in the third of four titles in Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, following The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves. Gansey’s elderly British mentor, Malory, is just one of the new arrivals in town (h
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Maggie Steifvater, read by Will Patton. Scholastic Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 12.75 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-545-60039-2
Narrator Patton delivers the goods in this second installment in the popular Raven Cycle series from Steifvater. After the events of The Raven Boys, Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam—friends and students at Aglionby Academy in Henrietta, Va.—must put...
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Maggie Stiefvater, Author . Flux $9.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1370-0
YA readers searching for faerie stories will be happy to find this debut novel, an accomplished take on well-loved themes. Despite her immense talent, teenage musician Deirdre fights nausea-inducing anxiety every time she plays her harp in public....
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-545-22490-1
In her closing notes, Stiefvater (the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy) calls this a book “about killer horses”—terrifying faerie creatures that eat meat and seek to drown humans—and, in virtually the same breath, says that it “isn’t really about water
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Maggie Stiefvater, Scholastic, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-545-12328-0
This sequel to Shiver is a bridge book through and through, designed to push the story forward, presumably to the third and final installment of Stiefvater’s bestselling series about werewolves. But whereas Shiver was tight as a drum in its focus on
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Maggie Stiefvater, Author . Scholastic Press $17.99 (392p) ISBN 978-0-545-12326-6
Stiefvater leaves the faeries of Lament
and Ballad
for a lyrical tale of alienated werewolves and first love. For years, Grace has been fascinated by the yellow-eyed wolf that saved her from its pack when she was a child. Sam, bitten by a wolf as...
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Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7613-7527-2
Described in an introduction by editor Andrew Karre as “the public performance of the private act of story craft,” this assemblage of more than 30 short stories, many of which first appeared on the authors’ joint blog, is akin to an artist’s...
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Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-545-70926-2
Nine-year-old Pip Bartlett kicks off this series opener from Pearce (Cold Spell) and Stiefvater (The Raven Boys) by inadvertently instigating a unicorn stampede—sometimes being able to talk to magical creatures isn’t as wonderful as one might think.
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Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater, read by Cassandra Morris and Peter McGowan. Scholastic Audio, , unabridged, 4 CDs, 4.25 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-0-545-83832-0
After nine-year-old Pip Bartlett inadvertently instigates a unicorn stampede, she is sent to spend the summer in Georgia with her Aunt Emma, a dedicated vet for magical creatures. Morris provides the lively and jubilant voice
of Pip—the perfect...
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-545-42492-9
By grounding this new series in what might be called everyday weirdness—a rich teenager’s obsession with legend and glory, a shabby household of female psychics with a pay-per-minute hotline—Stiefvater (The Scorpio Races) avoids the burden of...
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-545-65457-9
Stiefvater expands on her bestselling Wolves of Mercy Falls novels with a side story built around Cole St. Clair, werewolf front man of the defunct band Narkotika. Now sober, Cole attempts to resurrect his career and his dysfunctional love affair...
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-93080-2
In this lushly written tale set in 1962 Colorado, Stiefvater explores the complex and interconnected nature of desires, fears, and miracles via a Mexican-American family known for producing saints. Pilgrims come to the desert of Bicho Raro seeking...
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Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-338-18832-5
Book one of Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy, spun off from the Raven Cycle, centers on orphaned high school dropout Ronan Lynch. Ronan yearns to follow his boyfriend, Harvard student Adam Parrish, to Massachusetts, but until he can better control his...
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Maggie Stiefvater, illus. by Morgan Beem. DC, $16.99 paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4012-9323-9
Though Alec and Walker Holland are identical twins, they couldn’t be more different: while Walker is outgoing and personable, Alec thinks Walker “makes being human look so easy,” and struggles with interpreting social cues from his peers. Following...
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