Karen Foxlee

Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters

1 - The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm (Aug-2023)
2 - The Trouble with the Two-Headed Hydra (Nov-2022)

Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy (Feb-2014)

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  The Anatomy of Wings
  

  • Jan-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister, Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers. As she recounts the final months of Beth's life, Jen...

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  The Midnight Dress
  

  • Oct-2013
  • / Mystery
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  Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, vivacious Pearl Kelly, organizer of the high school float at the annual Harvest Festival parade. It's b...

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  Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
  

  • Feb-2014
  • / General Fiction
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  Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen
  

  A luminous retelling of the Snow Queen, this is the story of unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard who doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead mother when th...

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  A Most Magical Girl
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / Action Adventure
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  From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes the story of a friendship between two girls set in Victorian England, with magical machines, wizards, witches, a mysterious underworld, and a race against time. Annabel Grey is primed for a p...

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  Lenny's Book of Everything
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Perfect for readers who love Liar and Spy, Counting by 7s, and Bridge to Terabithia, a heartwarming and transformative novel about family, loss, and never giving up from beloved author Karen Foxlee. Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little...

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  Dragon Skin
  

  • Nov-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  The Trouble with the Two-Headed Hydra
  

  • Nov-2022
  • / Fantasy
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  Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters - 2
  

  The second book in the magical new middle-grade series about an anxious girl who investigates legendary monsters, by the award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything__________'Full of humour, fantasy and magical realism... the ideal story ...

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  The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters - 1
  

  'A deliciously thrilling mystery, full of heart, wisdom, wit and ingenuity' Edwina Wyatt, award-winning author of The Secrets of Magnolia Moon 'Easily one of the most charming books for young readers I have come across... A perfect balance of fun, fa...

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