Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above. There are currently no reviews for this novel. No excerpt currently exists for this novel. On one of her many walks in the woods near her house, she stumbles across a dead girl in a birdcage, and that sets Isola in the path of a ghost who is definitely not like her faithful protectors, her brother-princes. before the ghost steals Isola's last breath. A young adult book set in a modern times, it tells the story of Isola Wilde, the girl who sees magical creatures. Isola needs to uncover the truth behind the dead girl's demise. And her brother-princes - magical creatures seemingly lifted from the pages of the French fairytales Isola idolises - will protect her with all the fierce love they possess. Each is haunting in its own way and a sign perhaps that Australian young adult literature is heading from brilliant to better still.

Her real-life friends - Grape, James and new boy Edgar - make her forget for a while. The two, much darker, honour books in this category The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn, and Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near are both debut novels. But when the girl appears at Isola's window, her every word a threat, Isola needs help. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't. Fairytales for Wilde Girls Allyse Near, Sydney : Random House. There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. Born in 1989, Allyse Near counts Neil Gaiman, Jeffrey Eugenides, Francesca Lia Block and. 'He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.