Nancy Springer

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  • Bibliography:
    87 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Book of the Isle

1 - The White Hart (Dec-1979)
2 - The Silver Sun (1985)
3 - Sable Moon (Feb-1981)
4 - The Black Beast (Sep-1982)
5 - The Golden Swan (1986)

An Enola Holmes Mystery

1 - The Case of the Missing Marquess (Feb-2006)
2 - The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Jan-2007)
3 - The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Feb-2008)
4 - The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan (Sep-2008)
5 - The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (May-2009)
6 - The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye (May-2010)
6.5 - Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons (Jun-2021)
7 - Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche (Sep-2021)
8 - Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade (Sep-2022)
9 - Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose (Sep-2023)

Sea King Trilogy

1 - Madbond (Jun-1987)
2 - Mindbond (Nov-1987)
3 - Godbond (Oct-1988)

A Tale of Camelot

1 - I Am Mordred (Jan-2002)
2 - I Am Morgan le Fay (Sep-2002)

A Tale of Rowan Hood

1 - Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest (2001)
2 - Lionclaw (Oct-2002)
3 - Outlaw Princess of Sherwood (Oct-2003)
4 - Wild Boy (Jun-2004)
5 - Rowan Hood Returns (Jun-2005)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

Fair Peril (Jul-1997)

Book List in Order: 87 titles

  • The Book of Suns

    Under the King's malevolent rule, the corrupt warlords of Isle lived in splendor, while the peasants starved and dissenters were imprisoned. Young Hal, the heir apparent to the King, challenges the reign of terror with his only weapon--an unearthly w...

  • The White Hart

    Book of the Isle - 1

    All the beauty and bravery of a world that transcends fantasy and leaps into legend!...

  • Sable Moon

    Book of the Isle - 3

    Like a misty fog, a dark force rolls over the Isle of Welas. Now proud-hearted Prince Trevyn must embark on a quest to free the Isle of evil's grip and realize his own legendary destiny ......

  • The Black Beast

    Book of the Isle - 4

    THOSE WHO LIVED BY THE SWORD OF PASSION -- WOULD DIE BY THE SWORD OF LOVE! Frain and Tirell, princes of Melior, ventured together into mysterious regions of Vale in search of an army and the hope of victory. For his father's murder of the gentle, ...

  • The Silver Sun

    Book of the Isle - 2

    In the Kingdom of Isle, where the Sun Kings reign with the power of the Book of the Suns, Hal and Alan are given a mission. They must use the ancient strength of wisdom to destroy the evil that plagues the kingdom. The two blood brothers venture thro...

  • Wings of Flame

    Swords and sorcery fill this fantasy about an outcast girl who teams up with a prince to break a supernatural curse that could destroy their warring kingdoms  In the kingdom of Vashti, a shuntali is an outcast -- an unperson. One day, a young wa...

  • Chains of Gold

    A doomed king and his wife-to-be attempt to flee their fate in this novel by “the finest fantasy writer of this or any decade” (Marion Zimmer Bradley). Cerilla, the sheltered, castle-bound protagonist of this inventive and moving fantasy novel, i...

  • The Golden Swan

    Book of the Isle - 5

    A Wondrous Quest Through Lands of Magic And Enchantment, an epic adventure soaring to fantastic new worlds through the splendor of loyalty and love. Young Dair, changeling son to King Trevyn of Isle, is called by a mysterious vision to share his dest...

  • Tanner's Dream

    in The Blood of Ten Chiefs

    The Wolfriders lived for ten thousand years on the World of Two Moons, before Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs, was born to lead them to freedom. A lot can happen in ten thousand years.......



  • A Horse to Love

    Caring for a horse isn’t always a picnic Erin is thrilled when her parents agree to buy her a horse. She doesn’t even mind holding up her end of the agreement—keeping up her grades, mending clothes, and helping out with chores aroun...

  • Madbond

    Sea King Trilogy - 1

    A king and a madman in a dying world must join together, facing monsters and terrors to save what few mortals still remain, in the first book of the masterful Sea King Trilogy by one of fantasy fiction’s most accomplished world builders Once th...

  • Chance and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate

    Winner of the WordWeaving Award for Excellence: The stories and poems in this fantasy collection explore the enchanted realms of the imagination -- and our universal need for love and acceptance  The title character of Nebula Award finalist “T...

  • Mindbond

    Sea King Trilogy - 2

    In the second book of Nancy Springer’s remarkable Sea King fantasy trilogy, a king’s quest for the survival of his world leads him and his bond brother to a terrifying realm of the dead beneath the water Once, great kings reigned in might...

  • Hex Witch of Seldom

    This contemporary fantasy by award-winning author Nancy Springer sweeps readers along on a girl’s journey of enlightenment and transformation Raised in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania by her grandpap, Bobbi Lee Yandro has been seeing things...

  • Not on a White Horse

    From the day twelve-year-old Rhiannon spots a lost white Arabian gelding in the woods near her small Pennsylvania mining town, her life finds a focus as she learns to deal with family problems and decides the direction her life will take...

  • Godbond

    Sea King Trilogy - 3

    In the magnificent conclusion to Nancy Springer’s Sea King Trilogy, a mad prince confronts peril and dark magic on a desperate quest to find a lost god in a dying world They were three, united to hold together a world that was coming apart: Ra...

  • They're All Named Wildfire

  • Apocalypse

    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 Ba...

  • Red Wizard

    Seventh-grader Ryan is whisked from his world into a fantasy kingdom by an incompetent wizard trying to find the perfect color red, but the mistake may avert a crisis with a rebel warlock and help Ryan solve a problem with his own father....



  • Colt

    Winner of the Joan Fassler Memorial Book Award: The triumphant story of a boy who overcomes his disease with help from horses  If Colt Vittorio had a motto, it would be I Don’t Want To! Colt has spina bifida—a condition that makes th...

  • The Great Pony Hassle

    4 girls and only 1 pony! When their mother remarries, twin sisters Toni and Staci get . . . twin stepsisters! Toni and Staci have almost nothing in common with their new siblings -- Paisley is loud and spoiled, and Stirling is pretty and perfect -- b...

  • The Boy on a Black Horse

    Gray, a young girl struggling to recover from her own deep wounds, becomes involved with Chav, a mysterious and intriguing new boy in her class, who claims that he and his two younger siblings are searching for their father, the King of the Gypsies...

  • Metal Angel

    Volos, a fallen angel who transforms himself into a human being with wings, sets his sights on becoming a successful rock star, but a band of enemies threatens to spoil the career of the former angel. Original....

  • Toughing It

    Winner of the Edgar Award: When Tuff’s brother is killed, he loses the best friend he ever had—but he may be about to find the father he never knew Tuff was there when Dillon died. Riding behind his older brother on the back of his dirt b...

  • Larque on the Wing

    Going through a messy mid-life crisis, forty-year-old wife and mother Larque Harootunian gets carried away with her latest doppelganger--herself at age ten--who helps transform her into a young, strong, courageous, and gay man. Reprint....

  • Looking for Jamie Bridger

    Jamie Bridger's decision to find out who her real parents are causes anger and feigned ignorance on the part of her grandparents and leads her to danger and some surprising discoveries. By the author of Colt. ...

  • Whoops!

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Vend U.

    in Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II

    Jocelyn is a complete pest, She's constantly playing practical jokes and has no problems beating up boys. Not quite the person you want around you when you're trying to enjoy your summer art class on a college campus. When Jocelyn decides to take out...

  • Secret Star

    When a strange and wild boy walks into her life, Tess is forced to confront a past she had long ago forgotten Fourteen-year-old Tess can't remember the first ten years of her lifeand if they were anything like her life now, she'd prefer that they ...



  • Fair Peril

    Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

    The art of storytelling and the power of a mother’s love imbue this feminist fantasy novel -- a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince   Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their tw...

  • Prom Night

    From the story of a young elf who can only remain in the mortal realm by getting a date for the prom to the tale of a young girl who gives a new slant to the legend of "Pygmalion," a collection of original short fiction features works by Fred Saberha...

  • Sky Rider

    News that her beloved horse, Tazz, must be put down has made the constant pain of Dusty's old back injury doubly sharp. But the night before the vet comes for Tazz, a mysterious teenager, the ghost of a young man who died a strange and violent death ...

  • Plumage

    In this feminist-inspired fantasy, a rejected wife starts seeing birds everywhere, including the sleek, cobalt-blue parakeet staring back at her in the mirror  After being dumped by her husband of twenty-seven years, losing her house, and sellin...

  • Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest

    A Tale of Rowan Hood - 1

    “Let these two go, Guy of Gisborn. I will fight you, even beaten as I am." Gisborn's sneer returned. "Pretty Robin, are your feathers broken?" "Just give me a weapon -- " "No. You're gallows meat, Robin Hood." Drawing his sword, crouching...

  • Needy Creek

  • Separate Sisters

    Perfect Trisha and troublemaker Donni couldn’t be more different—but neither of them knows what to do when their parents get a divorce After Donni and Trisha’s parents split up, Donni goes to live with their dad and Trisha goes with...

  • I Am Mordred

    A Tale of Camelot - 1

    Fans of the King Arthur legend will love this tale about one of the most fascinating and misunderstood heroes of Arthurian lore. An epic fantasy comes to life for Camelot fans. 

    What will a person give to forsake his destiny? From his very in...

  • Ribbiting Tales

  • I Am Morgan le Fay

    A Tale of Camelot - 2

    Fans who love King Arthur's legend, Camelot, Merlin, and similar tales will love reading about Morgan le Fay.

    Morgan is a willful, mischievous girl with mismatched eyes of emerald and violet. A girl of magic, whose childhood ends when King Uth...



  • Lionclaw

    A Tale of Rowan Hood - 2

    Lionel is seven feet of pure coward. Banished by his warrior father for refusing to learn to fight, Lionel found refuge in the woods of Sherwood Forest, where he joined the misfit band of teens led by Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin. Now, a year later,...

  • Blood Trail

    The gruesome murder of a popular high school student turns two small-town neighbors against each other Aaron Gingrich is a well-liked high school senior who always seems to have a smile on his face. He and Jeremy Davis have been inseparable since ele...

  • Outlaw Princess of Sherwood

    A Tale of Rowan Hood - 3

    Her father is determined to make her pay. It was just over a year ago that Princess Ettarde -- her hand promised in marriage to the power-hungry Lord Basil -- escaped to the mantle of Sherwood Forest. There, Ettarde joined Rowan Hood's band of misfit...

  • Wild Boy

    A Tale of Rowan Hood - 4

    Ever since the Sheriff of Nottingham killed his father, Rook has run wild in Sherwood Forest, dreaming of his day for vengeance. Finally, he has found his chance. Not with the sheriff himself, but with the evil man’s son, snared by one of the mantr...

  • Rowan Hood Returns

    A Tale of Rowan Hood - 5

    Guy Longhead. Jasper of the Sinister Hand. Hurst Orricson. Holt, also Orricson,, brother of Hurst. To anyone else, just four names. But to Rowan Hood, the gentle healer who has survived two long years as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, they are he name...

  • The Case of the Missing Marquess

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 1

    When Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared -- and on her fourteen birthday, to make matters worse -- she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets ...

  • The Case of the Left-Handed Lady

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 2

    Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective -- her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, bu...

  • Dusssie

    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 ...

  • The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 3

    Enola Holmes--younger sister to Sherlock Holmes--is back on another case! Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes's right-hand man, so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't the slightest clue as to where he coul...

  • The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 4

    Enola Holmes--younger sister to Sherlock Holmes--is back on another case! Enola is thrown into a tailspin when she receives a desperate message from her old friend, Lady Cecily. Enola knows she must help her friend before it's too late - but s...



  • Somebody

    At the age of fifteen, a girl who has spent most of her life moving around the country with her father and brother, filling the emptiness inside her with chocolate, remembers her real name, Sherica, and searches the Internet to learn the truth about ...

  • The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 5

    Enola Holmes--younger sister to Sherlock Holmes--is back on another case! Enola Holmes's landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is the closest thing Enola has to family these days, besides her occasional run-ins with her brother Sherlock. Even though Mrs. Tup...

  • Possessing Jessie

    Two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer has written a chilling psychological thriller about a teenage girl possessed by her dead brother. Quiet, cautious Jessie had always lived in the shadow of her dynamic younger brother--her mother's clear favo...

  • The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 6

    As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is just as diligently searching for Enola herselfaand this time he really needs to catch her He is in possession of a most peculiar package, a mess...

  • My Sister's Stalker

    Since their parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old Rig and his sister, Karma, have drifted apart. Now she is in college--too busy to even return Rig's calls. So one day he Googles her and discovers a website "shrine" filled with photos of his sister. His...

  • #20

    Little Veronica likes hanging out at Mrs. Life's porch. She can see the whole town from the steps, and Mrs. Life is fascinating in the way that she keeps track of all sorts of numbers and information in her little spiral-bound notebooks. So it's surp...

  • American Curls

    When Cindy stops by the local cat shelter where she volunteers, she discovers her coworker Samantha unconscious on the floor. Even more horrifying, to Cindy, is that a mother cat and her kittens have mysteriously disappeared out into the snow. While ...

  • The Boy Who Plaited Manes

    When a young man mysteriously shows up in the stables of Lord Robley and demonstrates an amazing ability to braid horse manes and tails, the Lord and Lady are quite taken with his abilities and have him stay on. Sure, he doesn't speak a single word a...

  • The Scent of an Angel

    When a dog discovers that he can't be a witch's familiar because he's white, he sets off on a quest to be the faithful aide to an angel. As his sense of smell leads him from one person in need to another, will he find the ethereal being he's looking ...

  • Framed

    For picture framer Veronica Phillips, the most dangerous thing that happens to her on a typical day is a sheet of glass breaking or getting cut by an errant wire. When a key comes out of the back of a picture she's redoing, Ronnie soon finds herself ...

  • The Third Silence

    What starts as a typical day for self-described arts nerd Brad Litwack is soon altered by a woman who stops a car in the middle of traffic and begins to paint poetry all over it. Brad is immediately intrigued, particularly by the phrase "Dario Fuente...

  • Alpha Alpha Gamma

    Kerri Ellen lives each day with the haunting memory of the day her sister Kimmi disappeared on her way to work. Every night, she lights a candle in the hopes that her lost sister will somehow, miraculously, find her way home. When fellow college stud...

  • Dreamfisher

    Ostracized for speaking her mind and standing up against a man she doesn't wish to marry, a young girl is cast out of her village and forced to fend for herself in the mountains. When she ventures too closely to a lake and nearly drowns, she is rescu...

  • The Boy Who Called God "She"

    Derek relishes being the bully of his Catholic school, and when Julian arrives with his purple hair, he seems like an easy target. When Julian starts asserting that God might actually be a woman, Derek is immediately enraged and becomes determined to...

  • Ruth

    Poet T. S. Eliot once noted that when it came to cats, naming them was quite the difficult matter. At the Haven for Life Animal Rescue, worker Xenia knows this all to well. Glad to have a position, regardless of the fact that she suffers from paranoi...

  • Silent End

    When Judith discovers a dead body in the kiln of her pottery store, she's convinced it's the work of her ex-husband in an attempt to cause her trouble. After discussing the incident with members of her Scrabble Club, Judith soon learns that her ex ma...

  • Dark Lie

    In this gripping psychological thriller--smart, chilling, and unrelenting--Nancy Springer establishes herself as an exciting new suspense writer with a distinctive voice and some surprises up her sleeve... To their neighbors, Dorrie and Sam Whitea...

  • Iris

    Iris is an imaginative little girl with the ability to make just about anything seem to come to life when she plays with it. After Iris' death at a young age, her mother feels that there isn't much left to celebrate when it comes to the holiday seaso...

  • Juggernaut

    When Marietta Becker goes undercover at a singles dance to investigate the homicide of five men, she thinks she's discovered one of the saddest places she's ever encountered. When her husband suddenly appears and is immediately recognized by the danc...

  • Mariposa

    Aimee believes everything in her life is great. She's got a boyfriend who's terrific (in bed and out), a penthouse apartment, and everything else a girl of privilege could possibly want. Well, except for a soul. That seems to have gone missing someho...

  • Rumple What?

    We've all heard the fairy tale of the girl who could spin straw into gold, and the creature that would demand her first-born as payment for helping her achieve the horrible tasks put to her by her father. Let's face it, though, The Brothers Grimm cou...

  • The Most Mauve There Is

    Middle-schooler Avery Holsopple is already struggling with the fact that he's the shortest guy in school. To make matters worse, his older sister Valerie has insisted on having a Victorian-style wedding, which means Avery is about to find himself dre...

  • We Don't Know Why

    To a future girl, Mishell, who flies with the aid of anti-gravity wings, the death in a freak accident of a beloved older brother, Mykel, is hard to accept. Why had it happened? To Mykel, of all people? Why ?  Rebelliously going AWOL from her ho...

  • The Youngest One

    Jessie is tired of dealing with her drunk mother and life in a rough part of town, and when a creepy woman approaches her one morning and advises her to pay attention to Shakespeare's As You Like It in her English class she shrugs off the recommendat...

  • Drawn Into Darkness

    Darkness lies closer than you think.... Liana Clymer is running away -- from her divorce, from her past, from herself. Leaving behind everything she knows, she finds herself ensconced in a fuchsia-colored cottage in the swampy hinterlands of the F...

  • The Kingmaker

    The daughter of the High King has a regal name, but she is small and plain, so everyone just calls her Wren. As a mere girl, she is not her father’s heir; her cousin Korbye is. But Wren’s infallible sooth-sense tells her that Korbyn would make no...

  • The Present

    The girl named Saffron knows family and clan the way she knows earth and sky, as absolutes. Of course, after a separation of four years, she looks forward to seeing her grandmother again, and makes a gift for her, a clay spindle. When Grandmother doe...

  • The Friendship Song

    When Harper and her dad move to a new house, a creepy stepmom is the least of her worries Harper is not too happy to be moving in with her soon-to-be stepmother, Gus. The eccentric woman's home, which the neighbors call the Spook House, has a yard fu...

  • Eccentric Symmetries

    Eccentric Symmetries, 20 fantasy short stories spanning the forty-year career of author Nancy Springer, showcases tales ranging from the quirky to the transcendent. Including mythic tales of long ago and far away such as award-winner "The Boy Who Pla...

  • The Oddling Prince

    In the ancient moors of Scotland, the king of Calidon lies on his deathbed, cursed by a ring that cannot be removed from his finger. When a mysterious fey stranger appears to save the king, he also carries a secret that could tear the royal family ap...

  • Grandghost

    When she unearths the bones of a young child, Beverly Vernon’s life is transformed in ways she never expected. Widowed Beverly Vernon, a displaced East Coast children’s book illustrator and mother of two childless adult daughters, is finding i...

  • Re-Enchant

  • Re-Terrify

    The monsters of our childhood do not fade away... - John le Carre Vengeful undead. Demons. Hungry rats. These creatures and more haunt city streets, unlit hallways, deep space, and the corners of your imagination in Re-Terrify. Send shivers down y...

  • Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 6.5

    Nancy Springer's nationally bestselling series and breakout Netflix sensation is back! In this short story, Enola Holmes is on the case when a young porter - the boy in buttons - disappears without a trace.Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of She...

  • The Queen's Broidery Woman

    At King Arthur's court, one old overlooked serving woman held the ultimate powers of life and death--but even she could not turn Fate aside from its course!The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases the best in modern speculative fiction, personal...

  • Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 7

    "A young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart...the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way."--Millie Bobby Brown Enola Holmes i...

  • Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 8

    Enola Holmes, Sherlock's much younger, and feistier, sister, returns in an adventure of a confused young Baronet's daughter who is on the run from her father's devious schemes in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade.Enola Holmes, th...

  • Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose

    An Enola Holmes Mystery - 9

    In May of 1890, Enola Holmes is finally fully on her own and, no longer hiding from her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, attending classes and occasionally pursuing her chosen profession as a scientific perditorian, a finder of lost things and pe...

Award-Winning Books by Nancy Springer

I Am Mordred
1999 Carolyn W. Field Award -- Children's
Looking for Jamie Bridger
1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
Toughing It
1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Springer has published 87 books.

Nancy Springer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Nancy Springer, The Book of Suns, was published in May 1977.

Yes. Nancy Springer has 5 series.
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