Modern Faerie Tales Boxed set - 2010

In Tithe, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mothers rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdomsa struggle that could very well mean her death.

In Valiant, the companion to Tithe, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the citys labyrinthine subway system. But theres something eerily beguiling about Vals new friends. When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

In Ironside, the sequel to Tithe, the time has come for Roibens coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thingher love for Roiben. But when Kaye drunkenly declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie. Unable to see Roiben until she has fulfilled his quest, Kaye finds herself in the center of the battle of wits and weapons being waged over his throne.

Details

• Title Modern Faerie Tales
• Author Holly Black
• Binding Boxed Set
• Edition SLP
• Pages 1040
• Volumes 3
• Language ENG
• Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York
• Date 2010-10-19
• ISBN 9781442420205 / 1442420200
• Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
• Dimensions 7.14 x 5.02 x 2.87 in (18.14 x 12.75 x 7.29 cm)
• Ages 14 to UP years
• Grade levels 9 - UP
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC