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Jessie returns to the magical world where her grandmother was born. There she deals with some griffins, dances with fairies, and borrows something to help her dance in her school concert.

When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.

In a town in Wyoming, there's a Menagerie with dragons, unicorns, and more. Seventh grader, Zoe's family has kept them hidden from the world until baby griffins escape. They must be found or the Menagerie will be closed.

"Set in the beloved and bestselling world of Valdemar, this first book in a new trilogy returns to the tales of the majestic gryphons. On the border between Valdemar and the deadly Pelagirs Forest, the gryphon hero Kelvren returns from a near-fatal self-sacrifice that won him the approval of Valdemar's ground troops, but caused a diplomatic crisis. Frustrated by his lack of a hero's welcome, Kelvren is talked into helping with an expedition by his...

Little ever happens in the quiet villages of peaceful Feierabiand. The course of Kes' life seems set: she'll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she's content with that path -- or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their deser and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins...

When the Black Kings threaten the safety of White Gryphon, Skandranon and Amberdrake journey to the enemy court in hopes of negotiating an alliance that will protect the terraced city, which Urtho's people have worked ten years to establish.

"Rowan is now the Royal Monster Hunter, and her twin brother, Rhydd, is destined to be king. But her mother's cousin Heward is still determined that his children be the ones to inherit the titles, and will stop at nothing to show that Rowan and Rhydd are too immature to properly lead. After the gryphon that Rowan captured in Book One gives birth but then dies, Rowan is left with a baby gryphon she knows she cannot keep. And it grows faster than anyone...