Together with illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, she is the creator of the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series of children's books. Kaye starts to piece together the strange story of her real identity when she and. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her. A Reading Guide for TITHE, VALIANT, and IRONSIDE By Holly Black ABOUT THE BOOKS Holly Black's first Young Adult novel, the urban fantasy/faerie tale Tithe, focuses on a sixteen-year-old girl named Kaye who is actually a pixie, only at first she doesn't know it. An avid collector of rare folklore volumes, spooky dolls, and crazy hats, she lives in West Long Branch, New Jersey, with her husband, Theo. In the realm of very scary faeries, no one is safe.Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Holly Black spent her early years in a decaying Victorian mansion where her mother fed her a steady diet of ghost stories and faerie tales. Kaye's always had the unique ability to see faeries, so when she stumbles upon an injured faerie knight in the woods, she decides to save him.īut this fateful choice has dire consequences, as she soon finds herself the unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms. Kaye is used to drifting from place to place with her mother's rock band, until an ominous attack forces them back to her childhood home. Discover the dark and seductive realm of faerie in the first book of the critically acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series from the bestselling author of The Cruel Prince - Holly Black.
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