In The Fairies of Turtle Creek, Jill K. Sayre has cleverly painted Claire Collins as a little girl on the threshold of something new. She is in the hiatus between girl and womanhood, in that last summer before high school and at her most impressionable....

On Wings of Stone and Light by Jill K. Sayre follows Ryon, a gargoyle from Gascony Theater who awakens in a hybrid body and discovers that Geidhuce, a former comrade, is building a violent Chimera army. While Geidhuce leads thefts, attacks, and a plan for...