Freyen Books In Order
- Wind Shifter (1995)
- Sea Change (1999)
- The Turning Time (2001)
Novels
- The Minstrel’s Daughter (2004)
- Talisa’s Song (2005)
- Weathermage (2006)
- The Broken Thread (2009)
- The Piper of Shadonia (2012)
Picture Books
- Sir Cassie to the Rescue (2003)
Chapter Books
- Kelly’s Cabin (2006)
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Linda Smith Books Overview
Wind Shifter
A young apprentice wizard finds herself in the middle of a historic war which only she can stop. Focusing on the power of love and friendship, Smith defies the traditional ‘Good versus Evil’ theme in order to see through the blind acceptance of history. This is an enchanting story which combines adventure with the varied emotions involved in growing up. The trilogy is completed by Sea Change and The Turning Time.
Sea Change
Sea Change, part two of "The Freyan Trilogy continues the adventures of Kerstin Speller, the 16 year old apprentice wizard who has a precocious gift for spellcraft. In Sea Change, Kerstin travels with her wizard father to the Misty Isles where, shrouded by fog and magical boundaries, a circle of women practise the highest arts of growth and healing. But something is badly amiss in this enchanted world and it takes Kerstin, the shy but fearless outsider, to do the unthinkable to bring a young boy into the magic circle and change the nature of their spells forever.
The Turning Time
The third book in the popular Freyan Trilogy, The Turning Time picks up the adventures of Kerstin Speller, now eighteen years old, as she returns to her homeland and finds she must once again fight prejudice against her friends from neighbouring Uglessia, Freya’s old rival nation. Kerstin must stand up against the powers that be under the most trying circumstances in order to ensure that justice and decency prevail. This novel culminates a work of wondrous scope and imagination, wherein Smith has created a world that is at once fantastic and compellingly real.
The Minstrel’s Daughter
Linda Smith returns building on the success of her earlier Freyan books with a compelling new trilogy filled with adventure, colour, and a wondrous fantasy world where magic is a fact of everyday life.
Talisa’s Song
Talisa Thatcher thinks she’s useless because she’s the only one in her family who can’t perform magic. But she learns the power of her own gift of music when she has to save the life of a young man unjustly accused of murder. This second book of the trilogy set in Freya, a land simmering with magic and intrigue tells the story of sixteen year old Talisa Thatcher and a talented young carver, Cory Updale. In Uglessia, Talisa’s family is renowned for its great magicians. Her own gift to write and sing beautiful songs seems next to worthless. Talisa apprentices herself to a master musician in the city of Freyfall and gets caught in the middle of a street riot. Cory sees her danger and saves her. Through him, she learns about Freyan farmers turned off their land an echo of the famous Highland Clearances.
Weathermage
Three teens come together to save an innocent young man from hanging, and use their strength and skill to tackle a conflict that threatens hundreds of lives.
The Broken Thread
Destroying a deadly prince, in a violent court far from her home, was not what Alina expected when she was chosen to serve on the Isle of the Weavers. Fifteen year old Alina comes from a long line of women who have gone to serve on the Isle of the Weavers, and she has always dreamed of doing the same. Her older sister is going to inherit the farm. She hasn’t found any boy in the village that she’s attracted to, like her other sister. And she loves her 10 year old brother, but he’s getting to be a pain to look after all the time. Still, a girl must be chosen to be a weaver, and Alina’s already older than others were when they were called. Then the weavers come. Her dreams come true, and she’s taken to the Isle of Weaving, where the destiny of the world is born. Alina enters a long period of mental/spiritual training to prepare her to be a weaver. But she struggles with her trademark impatience. To the amuseme*nt of her trainers, she’s anxious to begin weaving after only a few months training. Then Alina is asked to take spools of thread to the weaving room, and she gets her first glimpse of the awesome tapestry, with its multitude of threads, and colours, and shifting patterns. Left alone for a minute, she discovers a red thread red like her own hair which is short and broken, and she impulsively takes a strand of her hair and ties the red thread to a tawny thread nearby. Immediately, thousandsof other threads in the tapestry break. What has she done? The tapestry reflects what goes on in the world, as well as affecting events. By reconnecting a thread that was meant to be broken, she has caused the end of thousands of other threads/lives. She must undo what she has done and the story begins. Get lost in a magical time where adventure and danger abound andthe strength of our hero*ine, Alina, is put to the test.
Kelly’s Cabin
Even a cardboard box can be a private and magical place. 20061013
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