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Lhind has been on the run all her life.

Stealing what she needs, using magic for disguise, she never stays anywhere long. Lhind even has secrets from herself, for she has few memories, and those are troubling.

But life is good until she gets caught by Rajanas the warrior-prince, Thianra the bard, and Hlanan the scribe. And that’s when adventure...

Lhind has gone from castoffs to silks, back alleys to palace halls.

And she is not having an easy time of it. That’s before she’s snatched by an angry prince she’d robbed twice, who is determined to turn her over to the enemy who frightens her most, the sinister Emperor Jardis Dhes-Andis. When her own dear Hlanan comes to rescue her, it’s Lhind...

THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE LHIND YOUNG ADULT FANTASY SERIES!

When Lhind’s beloved Hlanan is taken by Shinjan slavers, she leaves her self-imposed exile to rush to the rescue. But first she must face a dragon, and learn world-changing truths about herself.

Meanwhile, halfway across the world, imprisoned Hlanan labors to liberate fellow slaves...

Hera is angry with Zeus and the rest of the male gods. She takes their powers, and comes to Earth, handing them out to random old women, saying that the weakest have the most wisdom, and further warns them to prove her right!

This tongue-in-cheek urban fantasy novelette by Sherwood Smith features old women, including one disabled, whose take on...

A starving English major desperate for a job goes on an interview, where she is turned loose in a ballroom full of books...

This short piece is an homage to those who love works with grace and wit such as Jane Austen wrote, who regard fan fiction as part of the river of story, and who wonder just what universal imagination can achieve...

Rhis is a sixteen-year-old princess from the tiny mountain kingdom of Nym.

She longs for romance, but nothing ever happens in Nym, until she receives an invitation to a celebration for Prince Lios of Vesarja, the largest kingdom around.

Lios is as handsome as Rhis dared to hope, and she falls instantly in love, just like in her favorite songs. But...

At long last! The finale to Sherwood Smith’s Oz trilogy is here! Journey back to Oz with Dori and Emma, along with old favorites like Scraps and Polychrome, as they travel through the skies over Oz. There’s a plot afoot with a dastardly villain who kidnapped Princess Dorothy in Smith’s first book, The Emerald Wand of Oz. It’ll take Glinda, Rikki...

When Sherwood Smith was eight years old, she had dreams about a girl queen who traveled between worlds, looking for girls who loved adventure. Clair came to Earth, where she found CJ, and adopted her as her princess best friend. One of her jobs was to serve as leader for Clair’s gang of girls, as they encountered villains who thought it would be...

First written when I was a teen, the series called CJ’s Notebooks features a gang of girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair of Mearsies Heili. The M girls, as they come to be known, prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But villains don’t ask first if the girls want to be dragged into dangerous...

NY Public Library Best Books for Teen Age List, 1995

Finalist for Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature, 1995

Anne Spencer Lindbergh Honor Book, 1996.

ll her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one-with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best...

Wren thought she was an orphan. After discovering that she might have family, she wants to spend her first vacation from Cantirmoor's Magic School in finding them. But her quest turns into a far more dangerous adventure than she ever imagined, what with robbers, guardsmen, and an angry sorcerer after her. And when her traveling companion, young...

When the evil Andreus's hunger for power leads to war, Wren and her friends are thrust into the middle of the struggle.

Teressa is now a teenage queen who has lost her country, Tyron is her chief magicmaker, and Prince Connor a reluctant warrior. Wren tries to be everything for her best friend. But she is unable to contend with the emotions that...

After journeymage Wren and Queen Teressa argue over wicked Hawk Rhiscarlan, Wren leaves the magic school seeking Prince Connor. Wren is aboard a smuggler,fighting pirates with magic when Teressa flirts with Hawk, who upsets her court as Tyron-the next Queen’s Mage-watches helplessly. Evil ex-king Andreus adds to the danger that the four friends...

ll her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one - with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son with no chance of becoming king; and the magician is an apprentice? Wren leads the other three over...

With two bossy older sisters, Joe doesn’t like girls. Nan doesn’t have any friends.

Joe and Nan would never have spoken if they hadn’t both reached for the same odd little book on a shelf in their favorite part of the library, the adventure stories.

They agree to share it… and discover not just a story, but a promise that magic is real, and that...

In this near future novella depicting a government always watching you for your own good, teenage Lys finds out that her family has been selected for a reality show. The promised megabucks are conditional upon the family being interesting enough to catch the interest of fellow Americans. Lys and her drummer brother and overworked elder sister go...

Book View Café’s members include international bestselling authors and winners of the National Book Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Sidewise Award, and many others. Most have sold multiple novels to major publishers. Many have taught writing at workshops around the world. The experience of these professional authors is gathered into...

From the concrete canyons of the modern city to the halls of ancient kings,from deepest ocean to cosy homes in suburbs, no one is immune to magic. But as many forms as magic takes, a hero always arrives to accept the challenge,and sometimes, to pay the price. The hearts and imaginations of today’s finest writers come together to create this...

The “Solar Queen” is in real trouble. They’ve just saved thousands of lives in a near disaster and are on the way to cash in on their newfound hero status with some profitable trade. But when they drop out of hyperspace and almost crash into a deserted ship, it’s all they can do not to become a wreck like the one they’ve stumbled across....