Nancy Springer Books In Order

Book of the Isle Books In Order

  1. The White Hart (1979)
  2. The Book of Suns (1977)
  3. The Sable Moon (1981)
  4. The Black Beast (1982)
  5. The Golden Swan (1983)

Sea King Books In Order

  1. Madbond (1987)
  2. Mindbond (1987)
  3. Godbond (1988)
  4. Sea King Trilogy (2018)

Tale of Camelot Books In Order

  1. I Am Mordred (1998)
  2. I Am Morgan le Fay (2001)

Rowan Hood Books In Order

  1. Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (2001)
  2. Lionclaw (2002)
  3. Outlaw Princess of Sherwood (2003)
  4. Wild Boy (2004)
  5. Rowan Hood Returns (2005)

Enola Holmes Books In Order

  1. The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006)
  2. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (2007)
  3. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (2008)
  4. The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (2008)
  5. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (2009)
  6. The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye (2010)
  7. Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche (2021)
  8. Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons (2021)
  9. Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade (2022)

Literary World of Nancy Springer Books In Order

  1. The Third Silence (2012)
  2. Alpha Alpha Gamma (2012)
  3. Ruth (2012)
  4. The Most Mauve There Is (2013)

Mystery World of Nancy Springer Books In Order

  1. American Curls (2012)
  2. #20 (2012)
  3. Framed (2012)
  4. Silent End (2012)
  5. Juggernaut (2012)

Fantasy World of Nancy Springer Books In Order

  1. The Boy Who Plaited Manes (2012)
  2. The Scent of an Angel (2012)
  3. Dreamfisher (2012)
  4. The Boy Who Called God ‘She’ (2012)
  5. Iris (2012)
  6. Mariposa (2013)
  7. Rumple What? (2013)
  8. We Don’t Know Why (2013)
  9. The Youngest One (2013)
  10. The Kingmaker (2013)

Novels

  1. Wings of Flame (1985)
  2. Chains of Gold (1986)
  3. A Horse to Love (1987)
  4. The Hex Witch of Seldom (1988)
  5. Not on a White Horse (1988)
  6. Red Wizard (1989)
  7. They’re All Named Wildfire (1989)
  8. Apocalypse (1989)
  9. Colt (1991)
  10. Damnbanna (1992)
  11. The Friendship Song (1992)
  12. The Great Pony Hassle (1993)
  13. Larque on the Wing (1994)
  14. The Boy on a Black Horse (1994)
  15. Metal Angel (1994)
  16. Toughing It (1994)
  17. Looking for Jamie Bridger (1995)
  18. Fair Peril (1996)
  19. Secret Star (1997)
  20. Sky Rider (1999)
  21. Plumage (2000)
  22. Needy Creek (2001)
  23. Separate Sisters (2001)
  24. Blood Trail (2003)
  25. Dusssie (2007)
  26. Somebody (2009)
  27. Possessing Jessie (2010)
  28. My Sister’s Stalker (2012)
  29. Dark Lie (2012)
  30. Drawn Into Darkness (2013)
  31. GrandGhost (2018)
  32. The Oddling Prince (2018)

Omnibus

  1. Under the Wheel (1987)

Collections

  1. Chance and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate (1985)
  2. Stardark Songs (1993)
  3. Eccentric Symmetries (2016)
  4. Three Tiptree Award – Winning Novels (2018)

Novellas

  1. Vend U. (2013)
  2. The Present (2014)

Anthologies edited

  1. Prom Night (1999)
  2. Ribbiting Tales (2000)

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Nancy Springer Books Overview

The White Hart

Welcome to Isle, a land of fantasy that existed long before there were such things. Surrounded by vast oceans and dotted with thick forests, Isle was a land in which all beings lived together. There were gods and ghosts dwelling with the Old Ones, the wise ancient ancestors. During this period, The Book of Suns began its life, though little was known about its contents. The mighty marriage between Sun and Moon begins an adventure never seen before.

The Book of Suns

In the Kingdom of Isle, where the Sun Kings reign with the power of the Book of the Suns, Hal and Alan are given a mission. They must use the ancient strength of wisdom to destroy the evil that plagues the kingdom. The two blood brothers venture throughout the land fighting the many forms that this evil takes so they can arrive at their destiny.

I Am Mordred

After being set adrift at sea, baby Mordred is found by fisherfolk who raise him as their own. One day, a beautiful, magical lady appears to carry him back to his birth mothers cold castle. There, alone but for his faithful dog, he comes of age and learns the horrible truth about his identity. Everyone knows Mordred as the dark, evil son who kills the noble King Arthur. But what would it be like to be born as Mordred, an unwanted child with a dreadful destiny? This imaginative and beautifully told fantasy tale, rich with Arthurian lore, lets you finally hear Mordreds side of the age old story. Nancy Springer is an award winning author who has published over 30 critically acclaimed books. This Booklist Top 10 Fantasy Novel showcases her talent for creating convincing characters and conveying their intense emotions. Narrator Steven Crossley will hold you spellbound as he brings young Mordred and his tragic predicament fully to life.

I Am Morgan le Fay

Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl of magic, whose childhood ends when King Uther Pendragon murders her father and steals away her mother. Then Pendragon dies and, in a warring country with no one to claim the throne, there are many who want Morgan dead. But Morgan has power, and magic. She is able to change the course of history, to become other, to determine her own fate and, thus the fate of Britain. She will become Morgan le Fay. ‘Springer wields language like a sword, and both blood and flowers spring to these pages in vivid hues.’ Booklist, starred review

Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest

Rosemary has nowhere to go when her beloved mother dies. She has never met her father the outlaw Robin Hood and she’s grown up among the woodland creatures her mother loved. So she decides to change her name to Rowan, disguise herself as a boy, and undertake a perilous journey through Sherwood Forest, in search of Robin Hood. But how will she find him? And will he offer her a home? ‘This tale is a charmer, filled with exciting action, plenty of humor, engaging characters, and a nice fantasy twist.’ Booklist, starred review ‘Rowan Hood reads like the first in a series, and teens are sure to hope that it will be just that, leading to many more.’ VOYA

Lionclaw

Lionel believes that he is nothing but an awkward coward, and he much prefers playing his harp to drawing a sword. Banished by his warrior father, Lord Lionclaw, he finds refuge in Sherwood Forest and joins a misfit band of outlaws led by Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin. Lionel is loyal and grateful to his good friend Rowan, yet he is also determined to make peace with his father. But when Lionclaw is taken prisoner by Robin Hood one night, he spots his son among the outlaws and vows revenge on him. Suddenly Sherwood Forest is filled with danger, and Lionel wants nothing more than to turn and run. Then Lionclaw‘s bounty hunters capture Rowan and use her as bait, and suddenly the lion in Lionel is awakened.

Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

Her father is determined to make her pay. It was just over a year ago that Princess Ettarde her hand promised in marriage by her father to the power hungry Lord Basil escaped to the shroud of Sherwood Forest. There, Ettarde joined up with Rowan Hood’s band of misfit teens, an outlaw in the making and a princess no more. But now her father is determined to recapture her. He will do anything, even use his own wife Ettarde’s mother as bait. In a cage. In the middle of Sherwood Forest. Ettarde will not stand for it, and neither will Rowan Hood. Nancy Springer delivers a stirring battle of wit and courage in this, the third in her Tales of Rowan Hood.

Wild Boy

Ever since the Sheriff of Nottingham killed his father, Rook has run wild as a wolf through Sherwood Forest, dreaming of vengeance. Now, he has come face to face with his chance. Not with the Sheriff himself, but with the evil man’s son, snared by one of his own father’s man traps. Will Rook take the vengeance he craves, or will he remember he was not always a Wild Boy? Filled with clashes of sword and emotion, this page turning new installment in Nancy Springer’s Tales of Rowan Hood will leave readers eager to return to Sherwood, where survival is a daily battle.

Rowan Hood Returns

Guy Longhead. Jasper of the Sinister Hand. Hurst Orricson. Holt, also Orricson, brother of Hurst. To anyone else, just four names. But to Rowan Hood, the gentle healer who has waited two long years to put names to the men who murdered her mother, they are fuel to feed her desire for revenge. And so she leaves the rowan grove that had become her home in Sherwood Forest, and along with her friends, sets off to seek these men. Yet she finds that the closer she draws to them, the farther she feels from the healer she has become. Nancy Springer has written a dramatic, stirring final chapter to a series that has only grown stronger with each new tale.

The Case of the Missing Marquess

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared on her 14th birthday nonetheless she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her mother’s whereabouts but not even the last name Holmes can prepare her for what awaits. Suddenly involved in the kidnapping of the young Marquess of Basilwether, Enola must escape murderous villains, free the spoiled Marquess, and perhaps hardest of all, elude her shrewd older brother all while collecting clues to her mother s disappearance! A remarkable debut of a new mystery series by two time Edgar Awardwinning author Nancy Springer.

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

Enola Holmes is hiding from the world’s most famous detective her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. But when she discovers a hidden cache of bold, brilliant charcoal drawings, she can t help but venture out to find who drew them: young Lady Cecily, who has disappeared from her bedroom without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the clues a leaning ladder, a shifty eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain, Enola risks revealing more than she should…
In her follow up to The Case of the Missing Marquess, which received four starred reviews, two time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us back to the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new hero*ines in today s literature.

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes right hand man so when he goes missing, it’s a shock. Even Sherlock hasn t, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she s still hiding from her older brothers and getting involved could be disastrous. But when a bizarre bouquet shows up at the Watson residence, full of convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies, Enola must act. She dons her most discerning disguise yet to find the sender and quickly, for Enola knows the blossoms symbolize death! Hold your breath because Enola s about to take it away. The stakes are higher and the mystery deeper than ever before in the third installment of this Edgar award nominated, critically acclaimed series.

The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan

When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it peculiar. In fact, she realizes Cecily is in danger! But what, exactly, is the matter? And how can Enola help? After examining the clues, Enola discovers Lady Cecily is being held hostage in an abysmal orphanage, and if she isn t rescued, she ll be forced into a miserable marriage! This complicated case has Sherlock and Enola literally running into each other all over London. If Enola joins forces with the brother she has fought desperately to elude, she risks her freedom yet, if she doesn t, Lady Cecily could be doomed! Edgar Award winning Nancy Springer offers the riskiest case yet for our well loved, critically acclaimed hero*ine.

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

Enola’s landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is the closest thing Enola has to family these days, besides her occasional run ins with her brother Sherlock. Even though Mrs. Tupper is nearly deaf and can barely cook, she’s an endearing presence as Enola longs for her absent mother. So imagine her horror when Enola comes home to find Mrs. Tupper kidnapped! Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it? From the master of mystery Nancy Springer, here’s another absorbing adventure for our award winning, unstoppable hero*ine, Enola Holmes.

The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye

As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is just as diligently searching for Enola herself and this time he really needs to catch her! He is in possession of a most peculiar package, a message from their long lost mother that only Enola can decipher. Sherlock, along with their brother Mycroft, must follow Enola into the reeking tunnels of London’s dark underbelly as they solve a triple mystery: What has happened to their mother? And to Lady Blanchefleur? And what does either have to do with Mycroft, who holds Enola s future in his everso proper hands? No one, not even Sherlock, is left unchanged or unsurprised in this brilliant conclusion to the Enola Holmes mystery series.

A Horse to Love

With her aunt’s help, a girl learns that owning and caring for her dream horse is both frustrating and rewarding.

The Hex Witch of Seldom

The King, the Sorceress, the Trickster…
they are members of the Circle of Twelve, primal human archetypes whose powers are manifest in us all. Most people never meet the Twelve, except in books and movies but they exist. Those who have the Sight, like young Bobbi Yandro, can speak with them at will. Bobbi does not will but her own budding powers are beyond her control. And when she becomes the mistress of Shane, a black mustang with eyes like blue fire, a horse who is more than a horse, events sweep her into the very hands of the Twelve…

Not on a White Horse

From the day twelve year old Rhiannon spots a lost white Arabian gelding in the woods near her small Pennsylvania mining town, her life finds a focus as she learns to deal with family problems and decides the direction her life will take.

Colt

Colt Vittorio has never run a race, or even walked down the street on his own. Colt has spina bifida, and sees the world from a wheelchair. Then his mother signs him up for a special riding program. ‘An excellent portrayal of a young person struggling with the emotional and social ramifications of a serious disease.’ Booklist. An IRA Young Adult’s Choice; Winner of the Joan Fassler Memorial Book Award.

Larque on the Wing

Going through a messy mid life crisis, forty year old wife and mother Larque Harootunian gets carried away with her latest doppelganger herself at age ten who helps transform her into a young, strong, courageous, and gay man. K. PW.

The Boy on a Black Horse

Intrigued by the mysterious and angry Romany boy who joins her class, thirteen year old Gray finds that he shares her love of horses but harbors a dark secret.

Fair Peril

When Buffy, a middle aged divorce a7e, encounters a talking frog and ignores all the fairy tales, her rebellious daughter Emily kisses the frog, turning him into a handsome prince, and soon Buffy finds herself in the land of Fair Peril to retrieve her daughter. PW. K. ‘

Sky Rider

Dusty always jokes when life gets to be not funny at all. But the night before the vet comes to put down ailing Tazz, her thoroughbred, all Dusty feels is pain. Pain in her heart, and pain in her spine injured in a drunk driving accident after her mother’s sudden death. The drunk at the wheel was her own grieving father, and now, though he is sober, Dusty’s back is in a brace and, like Tazz, she hurts all the time. Sometime before dawn, an eerily beautiful stranger appears in the barn doorway and offers to take Tazz away with him. Away where? Dusty wonders, but Tazz trusts the boy. Dusty’s beloved horse seems healed, willing to leap right over the sun, to run, fly, and so she lets him go. Dusty doesn’t think much about it when she learns at school that a student named Skye Ryder was accidentally killed on his dirt bike. But she finds out where he was killed on her father’s property and how by a cable strung across the trail. Then Dusty sees a picture of Skye in the newspaper very much resembling her horse’s otherworldly new owner. And her father begins drinking again. It isn’t long before Skye returns. Part angel, part vengeful ghost, he will never know peace unless Dusty can help him seek the justice he deserves, even if it means alienating the only person Dusty has left.

Needy Creek

Middle aged and recently widowed, at a loss for love, Libby needs to reconcile with her aging mother before it is too late.

Separate Sisters

Thirteen year old Donnie is so upset over her parents’ divorce that she gets into increasingly serious trouble at school and does not recognize how much her older sister is hurting as well.

Blood Trail

Jeremy and Aaron, 17, have been inseparable since second grade. Now Aaron has been brutally murdered, his body mutilated with 73 knife wounds. In small town Pinto River, rumors abound and spread like wildfire. First there is total disbelief that this could happen. Then the community is sure that a psychotic serial killer is on the loose. But Jeremy has kept one small fact from the police: Aaron told him that he was afraid of his twin brother, Nathan. Springer captures feelings of fear, grief, anger, and revenge. Her direct, simple vocabulary and sentence constructions contribute to an accessible book for less capable and reluctant readers. The dynamics of two families, the community, and the police investigation keep readers guessing, even though the ending is predictable. A quick and easy read.

Dusssie

Dusie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon right out of Greek mythology and she was named after her mother’s younger sister, Medusa. Her mother had hoped that Dusie’s being half mortal would protect her from inheriting the family curse. Still reeling from this revelation, Dusie tries to keep her snakes under wraps. But after a boy she likes in school almost exposes her, she discovers another family secret just one look from Dusie’s snakes has the power to send someone right into his own personal Stone Age. Talk about ‘if looks could kill’! Dusie better figure out how to control her snakes and her rage, and find a way to get her life back before anything else disastrous happens.

Somebody

At the age of fifteen, a girl who has spent most of her life moving around the country with her father and brother remembers her real name, Sherica, and is moved to search the Internet to learn the truth about her mother and her own past.

Ribbiting Tales

Who doesn’t like frogs? So they’re green and well, slimy. Frogs have charisma, charm, and even a few stories to tell. With the help of eight of today’s most fanciful writers, frogs finally have their day. From New York Times best selling author Brian Jacques’s tale of a menacing frogbeast, to Janet Taylor Lisle’s story of the frog people of Quicksand Pond, to Jane Yolen’s Pied Piper take on our froggy green friends, these hilarious fables and touching fairy tales are for every reader who has ever rooted for the underfrog. ‘Release your inner frog with this kickin’ collection.’ Kirkus Reviews

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