Valiant : a modern tale of faerie

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Label

Valiant : a modern tale of faerie

Title remainder

a modern tale of faerie

Statement of responsibility

Holly Black

Creator

• Black, Holly
• trueBlack, Holly

Subject

• trueFantasy fiction
• trueHomeless teenage girls
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• trueImaginary kingdoms
• trueMagic
• trueNew York City
• truePoisons
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueDrug abuse
• trueDrugs
• trueFairies
• Fantasy fiction
• trueReality
• trueRunaway teenage girls
• Runaway teenagers -- Fiction
• Subways -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• trueSubways -- New York City
• trueTrolls
• Trolls -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueFantasy fiction
• trueBooks for reluctant readers

Language

eng

Summary

Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus

Member of

• trueModern faerie tales

Theme

• trueHidden among us

Storyline

• trueWorld-building

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueSuspenseful

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueDescriptive
• trueGritty

Award

• Nebula Awards: Andre Norton Award, 2005.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2006
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2008
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2006

Cataloging source

ICrlF

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

820

Intended audience source

Lexile

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Series statement

Modern faerie tales

Series volume

0002

Target audience

adolescent