Julia Fettes: 2 books

Young readers will enjoy Julia’s first action novella, Royal Blood: The Diamond Blade. Set in and around Goldberg Castle in northern England, the story follows sixteen year-old Marie and her friend Charlie as they negotiate the twists and turns of late-medieval castle life, as new servants. By the...

this award-winning essay is offered as a way to stimulate young imaginations. Here's the premise: You find a key—and there is a mysterious note attached. Do you try to find what the key unlocks? If so, how? If not, what do you think the key opens? Is it a hidden door? A treasure chest? A cage with a magical creature inside?