Offers readers a fantastical tale of adventure as Adanta finds herself alone on a journey through the wilderness and the land of the Hidden People of the mountains in the hopes of locating her parents who have fallen under the spell of the Lean One. Reprint.

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

Children's Books

Youmans, Marly

Literature & Fiction

Firebird

Several years after Fontana dam flooded the town where they were born, Ingledove and her brother Lang go wandering in the Great Smoky Mountains, where they encounter their mother's peculiar people, the Adantans, and an evil being who charms Lang. Reprint.

Ingledove

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

The Wolf Pit

A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, The Wolf Pit is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell. Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil. By turns eloquent and harrowing, The Wolf Pit explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.

United States

Harvest Books

Lost in the woods of the New World in 1678, Catherwood and her one-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, find themselves in a harsh and unforgiving, yet majestic, landscape through which the frantic mother searches for human life.

Catherwood

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A powerful yet intimate novel of the Civil War on the home and battle frontsWinner of the 2001 Michael Shaara Award for Civil War FictionThe Wolf Pit offers a gripping portrait of two young Virginians forever altered by violence and civil war. Robin, a young Confederate soldier, battles from a valley of blood to a burning wilderness to labyrinthine trenches. He clings-despite the slaughter of friends and illusions-to what gives him strength, to the beautiful and the uncanny: family pictures, Psalms, and an old tale about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the very palisades of hell, the Elmira prison camp. Agate, the daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny. But the images she has fashioned for herself shatter when she encounters and deeply offends her owner, Young Master. At the Williams Home Place, Agate learns the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A chilling fantasy based on Cherokee myth It’s been weeks since Adanta’s sick father left on a quest to find the healing lake mentioned in the lore of the Cherokee. Since then a visitor has arrived, a man Adanta doesn't like – James, or, as she's styled him, the Lean One. One day, after witnessing him make a frightening incantation, Adanta finds that her mother has fallen under the Lean One's spell, and she is lured away from the cottage. Left alone in a remote area of the Smoky Mountains, Adanta has no choice but to venture forth into the wilderness, in the hope of finding both her parents. To accomplish this, she must journey to Adantis, the secret home of the Hidden People deep in the mountains. On her quest, Adanta finds many friends, but she also encounters untold dangers, including the threat of the Raven Mockers – humans who take the form of birds and steal the remaining life from those who are hurt or ill. To protect herself, and potentially save her mother and be reunited with her father, will require all the strength and courage she can muster.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

A gripping, fantastic battle against an evil creature After rowing across the waters that cover what was once their home, a valley intentionally flooded during World War II, Ingledove and her older brother, Lang, visit their mother's remotely situated grave, where they find a mysterious inscription on her headstone: "A daughter of Adantis." Vaguely remembering hearing of Adantis when they were younger, the two siblings find themselves unwittingly entering into it, a magical place hidden deep in the Great Smoky Mountains. But they seem predestined to encounter something terrible as they continue what Lang thinks is just a good camping trip. A strange music hangs in the air, and eventually Lang is entranced by its source - at first sight, a beautiful woman. In fact, she is part serpent, an ancient creature of evil who is out to drain the life from Lang. Only with the help of a man called the Master of Witchmasters and only by venturing into enchanted tunnels will Ingledove be able to save her brother from death. Mining the rich legends of the Cherokee Indians, Marly Youmans has crafted a decidedly American fantasy written in breathtaking prose.

Action & Adventure

Returning home in 1678, Catherwood Lyle and her one-year-old daughter lose their way in the dense woodlands outside Albany, New York, and spend the summer traveling through the treacherous landscape. Reprint.

Genre Fiction

Avon/Books

Little Jordan

Then he kissed me. . .very quietly. Quiet as dew. For a minute I saw his eyelashes against his skin and felt his cheek, cool and smooth like a little boy's cheek. Maybe all first kisses are the same, or maybe none of them are. Mine started with thinking about a boy's mother, a boy's cheek. Then suddenly everything seemed to change, as though I had stepped into deep water, and I closed my eyes.

Teen & Young Adult

HarperTeen

Claire: Poems

Poetry

Louisiana State Univ Pr

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The Curse of the Raven Mocker

Ingledove

The Wolf Pit

Catherwood

The Wolf Pit

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

Ingledove

Catherwood

Little Jordan

Claire: Poems