Books by Megan Whalen Turner and Complete Book Reviews
Megan Whalen Turner, Author . HarperCollins/Greenwillow $16.99 (387p) ISBN 978-0-06-083577-4
Readers who fell for The Thief
and grieved over his devastating loss in The Queen of Attolia
will devour this account of how the "goat-footed, throne-stealing interloper" grows into his crown. The erstwhile Thief and newly crowned king...
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $6.99 (280p) ISBN 978-0-06-082497-6
A king orders a young thief to carry out a near-impossible heist under threat of death. "In addition to its charismatic hero, this story possesses one of the most valuable treasures of all—a twinkling jewel of a surprise ending," said
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author . Greenwillow $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-187093-4
The fourth installment in Turner's saga is another absorbing political drama, this time focusing on Sophos, reluctant heir to the Sounis throne. Readers will remember him as Useless the Younger in The Thief
, when he was more interested in...
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author Greenwillow Books $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-688-14627-6
The bragging thief Gen is sprung from prison by the king in order to carry out a mission-steal the precious stone Hamiathes's Gift from an impossible hiding place. If he succeeds, he'll be rewarded. If he fails, he will be killed. If he runs away,...
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-13922-3
Princes in disguise, royal elves and book-loving ghosts all play a part in the seven stories of this intermittently promising collection. Throughout, debut author Turner's style is expansive, allowing for mood-setting details and for occasionally...
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author Greenwillow Books $15.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-17423-1
This spellbinder of a sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The Thief is every bit as devilishly well plotted and grandly conceived. As it opens, Eugenides the thief has fallen into the clutches of the queen of Attolia, who still seethes from his...
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (219p) ISBN 978-0-14-038834-3
A king orders a young thief to carry out a near-impossible heist under threat of death. ""In addition to its charismatic hero, this story possesses one of the most valuable treasures of all--a twinkling jewel of a surprise ending,"" said PW of this...
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Megan Whalen Turner, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-038672-1
A gay teenager contemplates coming out and finds himself attracted to a French girl. ""With its addictive combination of absorbing themes and glamorous setting, Kerr's newest stands up to the best of her oeuvre,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages...
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Megan Whalen Turner. Greenwillow, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-256824-3
Even minor characters in Turner’s Queen’s Thief saga have fascinating stories to tell, as she proves in this fifth installment, seven years in the making. This volume centers on Kamet, head slave and secretary to the Emperor of Medes’s out-of-favor...
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Megan Whalen Turner. Greenwillow, $18.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-287447-4
In the triumphal final volume of the Queen’s Thief series, more than 20 years after the publication of The Thief, Turner sticks her landing with aplomb. Dissent from within threatens to undo the delicate union of nations Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis...
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