by Meru S.
Book One: First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts
When eleven-year-old Helen Strang finds a wounded centaur named Yann in her yard, her life is changed. After treating the bite on Yann’s leg and discovering that fabled beasts are not mythical, she finds herself surrounded by many of their kind. She learns that Yann and his friends Rona, a selkie, and Lavender, a flower fairy, have committed a foolish act.
They have lost The Book, an ancient tome written by a fairy and wizard who have collected answers to every question that ever existed.
Yann, Rona, and Lavender need to find The Book before the yearly event at which the fabled beasts gather and ask The Book their questions. The festival is only days away.
The Book, frightened when the three fabled beasts had tried to use it out of curiosity, has taken flight. However, it has left some clues. Also, the Master of the Maze, an evil minotaur who is feared by many of the fabled beasts, wants it for himself.
Can Helen help her newly made friends find The Book in time? Follow her in her adventures in the world of fabled beasts.
The first book of the Fabled Beasts Chronicles will introduce you to different types of fabled beings as Helen learns more about them.
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Book Two: Wolf Notes and Other Musical Mishaps
Helen is finally doing what she has always wanted – to be at the summer school for music! But, during her first night there, Yann and a mysterious wolf-girl arrive at the school. Yann appears anxious for Helen to leave right away. He tells her that the school and the surrounding forest is dangerous for the students, but Helen flatly refuses to go back home; she has waited a long time to be here.
Helen falls into yet another adventure when James, a young boy, is taken by the faeries, the glamorous and music-loving people, who cannot bear to touch iron. She and her friends must rescue James before the faeries feed him faery food, for then if he later consumed human food, he would crumble to dust. The faery queen, though, will not return James unless He in len brings her the Fairy Flag, a flag with powers that the queen thinks will bring the rest of the faeries back to the forest. If Helen fails to do this, she will forever have to play her fiddle for the faeries’ never-ending parties.
Along with her friends, including a faery boy named Lee, who is trying to convince the others that he is trustworthy, Helen must find the place where the flag is hidden and take it back to the faery queen.
How does this all come together? Find out in the second book in the series. It is filled with failures and triumphs and will take you through a little faery history mixed in with a touch of Scottish legends.
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Book Three: Storm Singing and Other Tangled Tasks
Helen has been invited by her friend Rona to watch the fabled beasts’ competition to select the next Sea Herald.
First, Rona as one of the selkie participants must qualify by winning the storm singing contest. Then, she must try to win the three tasks of the competition. The rest of the competitors are good too. Can Rona beat them all?
But someone is trying to destroy the event and purposely cause Rona to fail. Helen, Yann, Rona, Lavender, and Catesby the phoenix attempt to discover the person responsible for doing this.
They must also prevent a disastrous storm from occurring by intervening and stopping the ocean powers from going to war against one another.
The third book in the Fabled Beast series shows the abilities and weaknesses of various fabled beasts including blue loons, mermaids, mermen, and more.
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Book Four: Maze Running and Other Magical Missions
Helen and her friends succeed in rescuing a unicorn colt from being used in the ceremony of the evil Master of the Maze, but the Master traps them in the forest and uses magic to place rocks on the tree branches above them. He demands that they join his side and threatens to let the rocks fall on them.
During the encounter with the Master, Yann has a near-fatal injury. His centaur family summons three healers who ask for at least one of these four tokens – the water from the footprint of a king, the scabbard of King Arthur, the gems from the paired cliffs, and a flower washed by seven waterfalls at dawn.
Helen and her friends set off in pairs to find all the tokens. But they know that the Master of the Maze is waiting for them to complete the task so that he can take the tokens and use them for himself.
Can the friends find the tokens and possibly defeat the Master too? The fourth and final installment of the Fabled Beast Chronicles will envelop you with its suspense.
It is a series that you will never tire of reading.
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