LAINI TAYLOR is a wonderfully colorful character. Striking, with her vibrant pink hair, she almost seems like a fairy herself.
Her Dreamdark series is suitable for middle-graders+. Daughter of Smoke and Bone series is for young adults as it has sexual content, language, and violence.
You can find Tayor's blog here.
LIPS TOUCH: TIMES THREEA National Book Award Finalist
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009
A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist
3 stories in this acclaimed volume. All about the wonder of kissing that special person.
Word Count: 60,828
Page Count: 288
Accelerated Reading level: 6.4 / points: 10.0
AR quiz: 132412
Lexile: 990L
-- sample pages available
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE(Daughter of Smoke and Bone, book #1)
**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** HornBook
In
this volume the reader is introduced to Karou, a 17 year-old art
student in exotic Prague. Karou at once seems like a normal teen,
struggling to define herself. But in so many ways she is exceptional.
For one she was raised by monsters. And it's for these chimaera that
she runs 'errands', collecting teeth which the creatures use in exchange
for wishes. It's on one of these missions that Karou crosses the path
of a seraph named Akiva, who finds something familiar in her.
It's angels versus darker creatures in a war that might possibly be stopped. Brilliant world-building.
Page Count: 448
Accelerated Reading level: 5.8 / points: 16.0
AR quiz: 146487
Lexile: 850L
DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT(Daughter of Smoke and Bone, book #2)
by Laini Taylor
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.
This is not that world.
Little Brown and Co.
Page Count: 528
AR information not available yet.
--sample pages available
BLACKBRINGER(Dreamdark series, book #1)
**Starred Review** Kirkus
When the ancient evil of the Blackbringer rises to unmake the world,
only one determined faerie stands in its way. However, Magpie Windwitch,
granddaughter of the West Wind, is not like other faeries. While her
kind live in seclusion deep in the forests of Dreamdark, she's devoted
her life to tracking down and recapturing devils escaped from their
ancient bottles, just as her hero, the legendary Bellatrix, did 25,000
years ago. With her faithful gang of crows, she travels the world
fighting where others would choose to flee. But when a devil escapes
from a bottle sealed by the ancient Djinn King himself- the creator of
the world- she may be in over her head. How can a single faerie, even
with the help of her friends, hope to defeat the impenetrable darkness
of the Blackbringer?
Richly drawn world.
Word Count: 92,634
Page Count: 448
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 14.0
AR quiz: 115265
SILKSINGER
(Dreamdark series, #2)
**Starred Review** Kirkus
Whisper Silksinger is the last of the secret guardians of the
Azazel, one of the powerful Djinn who dreamed the world into being.
Relentlessly pursued by bloodthirsty devils, she flees to the city of
Nazneen to restore the Azazel to his temple. At the same time, Hirik
Mothmage is also on a secret quest, to find the Azazel and restore his
disgraced clan’s ancient honor.
And behind them all flies Magpie
Windwitch, first champion of the new age of faeries, desperate to
rescue Whisper and the Azazel alike before they fall in the clutches of a
sinister hidden enemy
Word Count: 95,020
Page Count: 464
Accelerated Reading level: 6.0 / points: 15.0
AR quiz: 132646
Lexile: 870L
