Books with author Grace Chen

“I always dreamed to be a writer.” —Grace ChenIn this not-so-classic spin on the beloved Cinderella fairy tale, Cinderella-Grace is no meek, victimized servant, resigned to doing chores and missing balls. Grace Chen’s Cinderella is a feisty, fun-loving adventurer who isn’t afraid to speak up for herself—a character who in many ways parallels Grace herself, a young woman who loves to write, sing and dance, and has Down Syndrome.Cinderella-Grace’s life changes when her mother dies and her father remarries. Her stepmother and stepsisters are characteristically evil, but Cinderella-Grace, with some help from her fairy godmother and God, ignores their spite, attends a ball and falls in love with Prince Ronald.But unlike the traditional Cinderella, Cinderella-Grace’s story doesn’t end with a wedding—her story continues. Cinderella-Grace and Prince Ronald honeymoon on the Titanic, move to Beverly Hills, become international spies, and have children—three beautiful princesses who are also enrolled in spy school.Full of voice, spunk, helicopter rescues and full-colour illustrations, Cinderella-Grace echoes and embellishes a fairy tale proving, that with dedication and unbounded imagination, one can do anything.

Volume I of the series Tales of Gom in the Legends of Ulm. Nominated for the oldest children's literature award in the U.S., the Northwest Pacific Young People's Choice Award, it begins a 9-book saga of Gom's quest which begins as an effort to find his mother and escalates into a struggle to save his very world from extinction.Gom is an oddball, possessing qualities he didn't inherit from his simple, woodcutter father. He can speak with creatures, he is given to having strange "waking dreams" which warn him of danger. And he wears a mysterious stone, a rune, which in times of crisis comes alive, even hums against his chest. Torn between the desire to please his father and stay on Windy Mountain and the need to go find his mother, Gom in the end is forced to make tough choices.

Leaving his sheltered home on Windy Mountain, (Book 1) Gom is given a riddle. Solve it, and he will find his mother. He does that, (Book 2) and immediately finds that his quest has only just begun. In Book 3 of the series, Gom and his mother are abruptly parted, and Gom is left to make his own way to find a wizard master, to fit himself for his ultimate task which is to destroy the evil Spohr and thus save Ulm from destruction. In this, Book 4, he finds that getting a master is one thing, surviving his apprenticeship is quite another. But he has to become a wizard, he has no choice. As he struggles with the magic arts, danger trips him up from all sides. Finally, he has to confront his deepest fears and fulfill his destiny.

An American Library Assn. Notable, ALA editor's choice.This award-winning book is the second in the nine-volume series depicting its hero's struggles, first to find his wizard mother, then to save his very world from extinction. Beginning his search, Gom is given a riddle. Solve it, and his mother will appear, he's told. He soon finds that this is no ordinary brain-teaser but a life riddle that can be solved only through experience. Meeting friends and fleeing from foes out to take the rune, Gom's quest for the riddle's answer leads him up and down the land of Ulm, to the Far Fiords, to the bustling city of Pen'langoth, and beyond. Readers are treated to a fully realized world, many unforgettable characters, and thrilling scenes of suspense and fantasy as Gom, the clever, lonely mountain boy, comes to more fully understand his destiny and the riddle's last line!

Gom's dream has come true. His quest is over - so he thinks. But even as he starts life with his mother in her enchanted dwelling, Gom is made to climb the crystal stair. Atop it, he learns that Harga has to leave him, that he must go back to Pen'langoth and find another mentor to teach him magic - and that he has to become a wizard, he has no choice. In the lake city, such old favorites as Carrick, Essie, Shadow, and Jofor are joined by new ones. While looking for his wizard master, he finds once more that things are not always as they seem! Grace Chetwin's "ability to create memorable scenes, as well as her individualized, well-delineated characters," as a ALA Booklist review put it, make bustling lake towns, magic forests, and distant star realms all seem equally real.

Once a year, on Halloween, the Wood touches some normal, unsuspecting neighborhood - in this case, Locust Valley on Long Island, NY. As the hour approaches midnight, the evil witch queen, Samana, and her ghoulish crew prepare for their annual ritual, which is to claim a stray victim from our world to add to their collection of lost souls. As they gather, Meg and her sister are fleeing the annual school party and the bully, Kenny Stover. Passing through a ruined cottage on Horse Hollow Road, they all end up in the Wood in peril of their lives!

Caidrun is born into Alyafaleyn - Region of Harmonies - where golden spheres, heynim, float in the air. Their gentle chiming uphold the very world's existence. While the ability to control the chimes usually comes in adolescence, Caidrun pulls a huge mass of them to her at lethal speed before she is two. A young boy, Tamborel, shields her from their impact and is badly hurt. People decide she has to be protected from herself. Deprived of the chimes, she grows up tone-deaf and filled with rage. Finally, she scatters someone's heynim and runs off. Tamborel sets out to find her, and thereby hangs the rest of the tale. Chetwin regards this revised and expanded edition of the book as one of her finest efforts, and Tamborel as now on a par with her favorite hero, Gom.

Gom, the son of a poor woodcutter and his wife, grows up with his father after his mother leaves home and his siblings go to stay with townsfolk and discovers he has unusual abilities which bring him trouble, yet lead him to envision a different sort of life for himself.Gom, the son of a poor woodcutter and his wife, grows up with his father after his mother leaves home and his siblings go to stay with townsfolk and discovers he has unusual abilities which bring him trouble, yet lead him to envision a different sort of life for himself