Jaleigh Johnson
Born:
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Johnson lives in Monticello. Biography: Jaleigh Johnson is a fantasy writer born and raised in the Midwest. Her novels for the ''Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms'' line include ''The Howling Delve'', ''Mistshore'', ''Unbroken Chain'', ''Unbroken Chain: The Darker Road'', and ''Spider and Stone''. Her first book for middle grade readers is ''The Mark of the Dragonfly''.
Awards:
- '''''The Mark of the Dragonfly'''''
- -- New York Times Bestseller
- -- Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
- -- Starred Review, Kirkus
- -- Starred Review, School Library Journal
- -- ILLINOIS READS Book Selection, Illinois Reading Council, 2015
- '''''The Secrets of Solace'''''
- -- Starred Review, School Library Journal
- '''''The Quest to the Uncharted Lands'''''
- -- Starred Review, School Library Journal
Website: http://www.jaleighjohnson.com/
Selected Titles
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Mistshore / ISBN: 078694966X OCLC: 216937414 Wizards of the Coast, Renton, WA : ©2008. Icelin, a woman with magical powers she can barely control, flees with a butcher and a monk to Mistshore, a coastal slum in Waterdeep, to escape the evil elf Cerest. |
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Spider and stone ISBN: 9780786964666 OCLC: 823510013 Wizards of the Coast, Renton, WA : ©2012. |
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The door to the lost / ISBN: 9781101933190 OCLC: 1065739878 After magic is banned in Talhaven, Rook, who is stranded there, still has the power to use magic, but when a stranger offers to take him and a friend to safety, they find themselves in serious danger. |
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The howling delve / ISBN: 0786942789 OCLC: 148674017 Wizards of the Coast, Renton, WA : ©2007. A brave band of heroes ventures deep beneath the streets of Amn and into the twisted passages of a forgotten lair, haunted by ghosts, filled with lethal traps for the unwary, and enmeshed with the perils of old magic. |
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The mark of the dragonfly / ISBN: 0385376154 OCLC: 847537373 Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands. |
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The quest to the uncharted lands ISBN: 9781101933138 OCLC: 961249322 Stella's parents are on the first expedition to the uncharted lands of Solace, but Stella doesn't want to be left behind. Stowing away aboard the ship, she finds a mysterious boy who is also hiding, and he's keeping a very big secret. She must decide whether to trust him or risk the fate of the expedition-- |
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The secrets of Solace / ISBN: 0385376480 OCLC: 908311149 "Lina is training to become an archivist in Solace, but war threatens to upend her life. When a mysterious boy appears, Lina must decide whether or not to trust him and reveal a secret"-- |
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Unbroken chain : ISBN: 9780786959198 OCLC: 694394375 Wizards of the Coast, Renton, WA : ©2011. The witch Ilvani's nightmares of a storm and a suffering soul are luring shadow creatures into Ikemmu, bent on hunting her down and killing her for reasons no one can ascertain. Ashok, however, is determined to find a way to stop it before the shadow creatures destroy the city he worked so hard to save.--Booksamillion.com. |