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Literary Legacies: For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig

By Maxine Van Nortwick

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Page length: 486 (paperback)
Part of a series?: Yes (trilogy as of 3/21)
Grade Recommendation: 10+
Rating: 4.7/5
     Words cannot describe the marvel of literature that For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig is. The novel surrounds Jetta, a teenage girl who is traveling with her parents performing shadow plays. Her troupe has become famous for their amazing performances, but they have one secret: Jetta can control the fantouchés(puppets) in her shadow plays by putting spirits inside of the fantouchés. She must keep this power a secret, for its shady past has caused it to become outlawed by the Aquitans... Read More

Literary Legacies: Stain ​by A.G. Howard

Genre: Fantasy
Page length: 512 (hardcover edition)
Part of a series? No
Book description, from Amazon.com:
          After Lyra—a princess incapable of speech or sound—is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt, a witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest . . . disguised as a boy known only as Stain. Meanwhile, in Lyra’s rival kingdom, the prince of thorns and night is dying...Read More

Literary Legacies: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Genre: Horror
Page length: 763 in total (hardcover edition)
*note - there are four different novellas within the book that vary by length
Part of a series? No
Description of the book, from Amazon.com:

          Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we employ to order our sense of reality. It bends, stretches, turns back or snaps, and sometimes reality snaps with it. And what happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality shatters and the glass begins to fly? These four chilling novellas, a feast fit for King fans old and new provide shocking answers. After all, past midnight, is Stephen King’s favorite time of day… Read More