Kidd Wadsworth
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The Wolf of Gubbio
(picture book)
In the 1200’s, a town in Italy is plagued by a marauding wolf. When the head of the town dispatches soldiers into the forest to kill the wolf, the unthinkable happens. The wolf kills the soldiers. In desperation, the people send for St. Francis of Assisi knowing he can speak to the animals. Expecting St. Francis to order the wolf to leave, the townspeople are livid when he entreats them to “feed the wolf.” “If we feed it,” they protest, “it will stay!” A ten-year-old girl dares to follow the saints advice. She sneaks out into the night to bring the wolf food. Will the wolf eat her? Or will the power of love transform the wolf and the people of Gubbio?
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(young adult fantasy)
Some say there was a time long ago when the dragons were wise and noble, when they lived in peace with humanity, when magic blessed every family, when healers, wind-whisperers and movers walked among the people sharing their gifts, dying only of old age.
But greed and lust for power corrupted the dragons. Secretly, they began eating magical people to boost their abilities, purloined magic the ultimate high.
Too late the dragons learned that stolen magic killed the sacred source within them. They could no longer create magic. To live, they had to consume.
Then Magic, the being all thought was eternal, the primal source, began to die, and the number of magical people dwindled. Faced with starvation, the dragons ate the only magical beings they could find—each other.
We thought they were all dead.
But one starving, foul, psychotic dragon lives. It has sniffed me out.
I, Saoirse Togair, am the last magical person.
I am HUNTED.
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The Dream Seer
(middle grade)
When ten-year-old Anthony frees a magical girl, she becomes the first member of the new family he so desperately needs, but she is being hunted by her former captor, and to help her Anthony is forced to lie to his grandfather, further estranging him from this complex man who abandoned Anthony’s dad and tried to leave him in a group home.