Nancy Springer books

Le secret de l'éventail (2008)

Enola HolmesThe Enola Holmes series are such delightful books! In this installment, Enola is once again called upon to rescue Cecily Adams, the Left-Handed young lady from book two. Enola encounters the girl at a lady's lavatory where she is obviously being held under the watchful eyes of two d...

The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (2008)

Enola Holmes gets better with each book. Her affection for Sherlock, and her desire for his approval speak to my own relationship with my dad. Sherlock is the father figure she didn't know she wanted. Speaking to how small London really is, she keeps crossing paths with her brothers and often nar...

L'énigme du message perdu (2010)

This book was a very fun book to read. I loved how Enola Holme's daring and cunning is used to escape countless times. The only problem was that the phrase "I will spare the reader the exact account of…." was used to often and in times were the conversation could have been edited in a way where...

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (2009)

I really wish this series was longer, I truly do. I just finished this the fifth, and there's only one more, and oh, Nancy Springer, how can you stop Enola's adventures there? This installment is excellent, just fabulous. Listening to Katherine Kellgren's narration is like eating the most delicio...

The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye: An Enola Holmes Mystery (2011)

I think this was the final Enola Holmes book... I'm reading them way out of order. But that doesn't matter - they're wonderful.Enola wants to discover what happened to her mother, and she wants the respect and affection of her older brothers, who she very much looks up to. But her brothers have b...

Métro Baker Street (2011)

Final book of Enola Holmes and her battle for independance...Year has passed since Enola ran from home after her mother left her but also leaves her means to be free and independent, leaving her money she saved for years. In this series Springer showed us world of London underground, lower and ...

Dark Lie (2012)

It is a surprising novel and a good read. I had never read Nancy Springer before this book. I met her at the Tallahassee Writers Conference and bought her book, because she impressed me as a fascinating person. Her sense of humor is evident throughout Dark Lie. The protagonist is a lupus-affected...

The Black Beast (1982)

In Nancy Springer’s enthralling fourth volume of the Book of Isle, two young princes set out to destroy their own father and the pervasive evil that poisons the kingdom An epic saga set in an ageless island stronghold of magic and mystery, Nancy Springer’s Book of Isle series is considered by m...

Blood Trail (2007)

I picked this book up thinking it was a mystery. It isn't (despite what the cover says). It's really a book about how a boy is changed when his best friend, Aaron, is murdered.It's a very moving book in that way. I really felt for the main character, Jeremy, and the whole time I read the book ...

The Boy On A Black Horse (1994)

Intrigued by the mysterious and angry Romany boy who joins her class, thirteen-year-old horse-crazy Gray finds that he shares her love of horses but harbors a dark secret of his own. (synopsis via Amazon)This is one of my favorite books of all time. I read this book for the first time 4 years ago...

Rowan Hood Returns: The Final Chapter (2006)

"Rowan Hood Returns" the final book in the "Tales of Rowan Hood" Series. I read all these way back in middle school, and I must say, I think this series is my very favorite children's series about Robin Hood. Much better than "hawksmaid" or "Robin's Country." (That one was so bad it made "Keeper ...

Outlaw Princess of Sherwood (2005)

Spoilers if you haven’t read the first two books.I’m beginning to suspect Springer had/has daddy problems. Even Robin might as well be a casual brother, and not Rowan’s father. And this also seems like a rehash of book two, only tailored to fit the main lead of this book - the runaway princess Et...

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (2015)

London January 1889. Enola 14 hides from worried brother Sherlock, until Dr Watson consults her imaginary identity, Perditorian Dr Ragostin. As Mrs Ragostin, Enola seeks Lady Cecily 16, vanished in nightgown, leaving ladder at window, bold charcoal sketches and mirror-writing diaries about East E...

The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006)

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 no...

The Silver Sun (1980)

Goodreads says this is #2, but it was published first. Fantastic Fiction says aka The Book of Suns, btw.I thought I'd read this because it was on a glbt list, or a gender list.. but darned if I know why even after having read it. Brotherly love is a big part of it, but.. it doesn't even have a bi...

Hex Witch of Seldom (2002)

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 ...

Colt (1994)

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 o...

Metal Angel (1994)

A dissatisfied angel falls to Earth to pursue his long-held dream of becoming a heavy-metal rock ’n’ roll godFor Volos, heaven is a bore; the real action is in the world of mortals. So the restless celestial abandons the eternal realm, transforming himself into a beautiful, decadent example of th...

Larque on the Wing (1995)

Larque Harootunian is having a mid-life crisis. But Larque, wife, mother and painter isn't like most 40-year-olds. All her life she's been generating "doppelgangers," psychic manifestations of her thoughts that can impact and, as she suddenly realizes, impede, the reality of her own life. She emb...

The Sable Moon (1981)

A headstrong young prince, enslaved far from home, must rescue his imperiled kingdom and those he loves from an ancient dark sorcery in Nancy Springer’s magnificent third entry in the Book of Isle The life of young Prince Trevyn of Isle changes forever on the day a mysterious boy named Gwern is...

Chains of Gold (1988)

I don't like that when you hover over three stars on Goodreads it says "liked it". I didn't like this book, but there was nothing glaringly wrong with it. I just didn't like parts of the narrative.For some reason, the whole "Cerilla has to marry a man, consummate the marriage, and then watch hi...

Chance & Other Gestures of The Hand of Fate (1987)

Fair Peril (1997)

Buffy -- a fat, fortyish, divorced mother -- encounters a talking frog and, ignoring the warnings of fairy tales, does not turn the frog back into a prince. Trouble ensues when Buffy's rebellious teenage daughter Emily does kiss the frog; soon she and handsome Prince Adamus disappear into the enc...

The Great Pony Hassle (1996)

When the mother of ten-year-old twin girls marries the father of two more ten-year-old twin girls, the rivalry and jealousy are worsened by one girl's demand for a pony as a reward for accepting the new family.

The Golden Swan (1986)

"It is a sad tale, as are all tales of..." yes, Middle Earth, but also Isle and Vale, apparently. Sad, but also well told and hard to put down. I was a little disappointed that it didn't have a better resolution. It was as though Frain adopted all of Tirrel's problems... but unfortunately, he did...

Wings of Flame (1986)

read during my Social Work YearsI Remember: a flight through a rural countryside into a capital city full of strangeness & intrigue... a disguised heroine who remains quite loveable despite some often annoyingly passive behavior... a nonchalantly studly hero, a very ingratiating example of the ty...

Mindbond (1987)

In this second volume of the Sea King Trilogy, Dannoc and Rad are on a quest that leads beneath the sea to the nightmare realm of the death goddess Mahela. She has stolen the beasts of the land and the creatures of the air. Now she wants Rad.

Dusssie (2007)

   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 o...

Plumage (2000)

After 27 years of marriage, nurturing, hard-working Sassy Hummel is unceremoniously dumped by her husband. To support herself, she turns to the one thing she knows best -- housekeeping -- taking a job as a maid at the sumptuous Sylvan Towers Hotel. How, Sassy wonders, could this have happened to ...

The Friendship Song (1992)

Harper learns about true friendship when she and her friend Rawnie find their way through the underworld of her new stepmother's backyard to bring their favorite rock singer back from the dead.

The Blood of Ten Chiefs (1987)

The Blood of Ten Chiefs tells the story of the previous chieftains of the Wolfrider Clan

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (2015)

Sherlock Holmes is missing his right hand man, Dr Watson. His much younger sister Enola is hiding from her older Holmes brothers, but knows the bizarre bouquet that arrives at the Watson residence spells death - convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies. She dons her most discerning disguise, and ...

Godbond (2000)

In a tale of destiny and dark desire, a king and a godling battle the supernatural forces of the most powerful goddess of all. A cast of well-drawn characters, a solidly realized imaginary world, and graceful writing (Springer seems a better writer in each successive book).--Booklist.

Apocalypse (1989)

A woman returns to wreak end-of-the-world vengeance on her Pennsylvania hometown  Disfigured since birth, Joanie Musser has endured decades of taunts and torments from the “normals” in Hoadley, Pennsylvania. Her only friend is a boy named Barry Beal, who has an ugly birthmark on his face. A few...

Rumple What? (2013)

by Nancy Springer RUMPLE WHAT? Nancy Springer To take first the point of view of the miller’s daughter, her father is just the sort of consummate jackass who would brag to the king that his girl can spin straw into gold. So when she is unceremoniously escorted to a shed full of straw, locked in t...

Framed

DARK LIE available in paperback and e-book in November 2012 from New American Library Dorrie and Sam White are not the ordinary Midwestern couple they seem. For plain, hard-working Sam hides a deep passion for his wife. And Dorrie is secretly following the sixteen-year-old daughter, Juliet, she g...

Madbond

“You are calling on the name of Sakeema?” he asked gravely. “I spoke to you,” I told him levelly enough, though there was a catch in my voice. It unsteadied me to see him sitting there, after all that had happened, well and whole—with the merriment starting in his eyes. “Dan, for the first time I...

Rowan Hood Returns

Nearby, her bow lay at the ready, strung, with short flint-tipped arrows close at hand. Her wolf-dog, Tykell, lay nearby also, basking in the first warm sunshine of spring. But not at ease. With his head lifted, he tested the messages in the air as Rowan worked. And she also kept watch. As she dr...

Iris (2012)

“Like me” means on a fixed income, which equals poor, and also means getting more lonely and scared each day as the other old women you know die off. Lonely is when you buy postage stamps one at a time, so when there’s something to mail you can walk to the post office and talk to somebody. Scared...

Dreamfisher (2012)

(From a fragment attributed to Herodotus.) They lived on the mountainside very simply, the men hunting meat, the women gathering nuts and berries, the children playing at being men or women. They spoke names of things, of course, to say “Bring me sticks for the fire,” or “I am going to dig roots,...

Chance

I was king of the canton of Vaire in Vale when I was alive. I came to my throne by virtue of threats and greed, but I tried to be a good king. I wanted to be well remembered. I rode the rounds of my canton yearly, hearing my people’s concerns, and every horse and retainer of my entourage wore orn...

We Don't Know Why (2013)

DARK LIE available in paperback and e-book in November 2012 from New American Library Dorrie and Sam White are not the ordinary Midwestern couple they seem. For plain, hard-working Sam hides a deep passion for his wife. And Dorrie is secretly following the sixteen-year-old daughter, Juliet, she g...

American Curls (2012)

Both house and cattery doors stood wide open to six inches of February snow, and Samantha would never let that happen. Good grief, the kitties might catch pneumonia and die. Something must have happened to Sam, and there were no neighbors around to help, because an animal shelter always had to be...

The Scent of an Angel (2012)

A long, weathersome road it’s been, and sore paw pads. It happened because—there is no telling why it happened, really. But on the surface of it, it happened because I bespoke the haughty, braggart cat from the neighboring cottage. A fat black cat, larger than I was, with her tail in the air. “My...

Mariposa (2013)

Aimee repeated, almost losing her usual perfect control. The doctor nodded. “I think so. Probably in early adolescence. It happens more commonly than you might think.” The doctor was a W.D., a Warlock Doctor, a.k.a. Warloctor. Very professional, she betrayed impatience only by adjusting her turba...

Vend U. (2013)

by Nancy Springer VEND U. Nancy Springer We did not like Jocelyn. Jocelyn put tapioca pudding in our book bags. Jocelyn put Jell-O in our gym shoes. Jocelyn smeared Ben-Gay on toilet seats. In the boys’ room too. And if we were on a field trip and we all went into a convenience store to get snack...

The Most Mauve There Is (2013)

Up till then, I thought my sister’s wedding, and her sugar-brained idea of what I was supposed to do in it, would just go away, you know? She was always breaking up with guys, so what made this Mark whatshisface any different? I hadn’t been paying much attention. But what I saw in the Tuxedos and...

Drawn Into Darkness (2013)

Forrest whacked his hand away but somehow in the process ended up bawling in his brother’s arms, making too damn much undignified noise. But Quinn was weeping too, the Aveo’s engine still chugging away, and the car’s air conditioner droning. A blast of cool air from the dashboard helped Forrest t...

Silent End (2012)

Unlocking the front door of her very own beloved shop, Judith smelled something that made her think her ex-husband had played one of his nasty tricks. Had broken in and left her a rotting dead rat, perhaps. Stepping inside, she glanced at crisp white bisque arranged on shiny black shelving; excep...

I Am Morgan le Fay

SHORT OF BEING KNOCKED on the head I could not possibly have gone back to sleep that night, and no one else did either. Ongwynn got up, got dressed, and set about provisioning me. I dithered back to my chamber with a rushlight in hand and tried to get some clothing onto myself and some into a bag...

The Present (2014)

On the slab of wood across her knees lay a thick disc of clay with her stylus standing upright in its exact center. Over the stylus she placed a loop of flax, then inserted the point of the teak-stick into the same loop, pulled it taut, and, taking greatest care to obey its length, traced in the ...

The Third Silence (2012)

DARK LIE available in paperback and e-book in November 2012 from New American Library Dorrie and Sam White are not the ordinary Midwestern couple they seem. For plain, hard-working Sam hides a deep passion for his wife. And Dorrie is secretly following the sixteen-year-old daughter, Juliet, she g...

Secret Star

She ran out the door, not even caring whether Daddy heard her thundering out in the middle of the night, whether he would worry. Let him worry. She had to find Kam before it was too late. Joshua had gone off in his van soon after he had brought the drums, but Kam had stayed till dusk. He was on f...

The Hex Witch of Seldom

“Is this the Hub where we’re going?” Bobbi asked Witchie. “My golly days, no, girl.” “Well, where—” “Hush. Quiet from now on. Chances are better if we catch him by surprise.” The old woman walked on, slowly, taking her time, as quietly as an Indian, a cat. Bobbi felt big-boned and clumsy behind h...

The Boy Who Called God "She" (2012)

by Nancy Springer The Boy Who Called God “She” Nancy Springer So there’s this new kid in school, see? One of my suckups, little freshman punk, saw him go in the office and let me know. So me ’n Brent take a stroll to peep him out, because the two of us basically run the school, I mean the importa...

The Youngest One (2013)

called the squatty old woman who always sat on the porch of number 321. What’s so good about it? Jessie wanted to scream, her mood as heavy as the backpack hanging from her arm as she trudged toward school. There’s nothing to eat, not even a slice of bread, and Mom’s passed out on the sofa again....

Juggernaut (2012)

Marietta whispered, teetering in her strappy high heels, immobilized at the door of the hotel ballroom. On a logical level she knew exactly why she was there: five murdered men, that was why. Despite her red flirty-skirted dress and the “Sunlit Chestnut” temporary dye covering her gray, Marietta ...

The Boy Who Plaited Manes (2012)

The stable seethed in a muted frenzy of work, as it had done since long before dawn, every groom and apprentice vehemently polishing. The lord’s behest was that all the horses in his stable should be brushed for two hours every morning to keep the fine shine and bloom on their flanks, and this mo...

Wild Boy (2005)

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Possessing Jessie

She wore Jason’s black American Outfitters T-shirt, his black jeans, and her–or maybe his, really–new black Oakley shades, and she rolled in like a visiting raja, relishing yet ignoring the shouts and squeals of the onlookers. She parked the car diagonally across two spaces, which was strictly ag...

Alpha Alpha Gamma (2012)

But Kerri Ellen did not say the words aloud. Jammed into a MINI Cooper with four other community college kids, she wouldn’t let them know how shaky she felt as they pulled into the church parking lot where the search-and-rescue command center was set up. To her friends it was all new, the muddle ...

The Kingmaker (2013)

Tedious matters, even. In this instance, two clansmen arguing about swine. Barefoot, in striped tunics and baggy breeches, glaring at each other as if they wore swords instead, the two of them stood before me where I sat upon my father’s throne. “His accursed hogs rooted up the whole of my barley...