The Hidden Things

By Dan Taylor, Beth Bracken and Kay Fraser

Soli has waited a long time to be rescued from the Crows, and she is beginning to give up on her faerie kingdom and her friends. She doesn't know if the mysterious letters she's receiving really are from Kheelan, Lucy has been out of touch, and Soli wonders if there is any friendship she can rely on in Faerieground.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Sep 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496507976

Dan Taylor

Odessa Sawyer is an illustrator from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She works mainly in digital mixed media, utilizing digital and traditional painting.

Book preview

Some things are hidden, waiting—

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And in Willow Forest, the faerieground still waits, just past a wish in the woods . . .

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No, my mother says again.

And I run into my room and slam the door. Again.

For a month now, we’ve been doing this. I beg her to help me. She says no. I get mad. She stays calm. (That only makes me madder.)

For a month, I’ve cried and screamed and begged and made all kinds of promises and tried everything.

But she won’t help me. And without her help, I don’t know how I can get back to the faerieground.

If it hadn’t been for the shocked look on my mom’s face when I came back, I’d almost start to believe the whole thing was a dream.

I mean, it doesn’t feel real, does it? It doesn’t sound like something that happens to a normal thirteen-year-old girl in Mearston.

I still barely believe it, and I was there.

First, Soli wished me away, and I found myself in a faerie kingdom. My mother had always warned me to stay away from the woods, but I didn’t think it could actually happen. Especially not to me.

There I was, surrounded by dark, angry faeries. Tossed into a prison