Title: The Folk Keeper
Author(s): Franny Billingsley
Language: English
Published: 21 December 2001
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780689828768
Extension: EPUB
Size: 230 KB
Subjects: Legends; Myths; Fables, Selkies, Family, Juvenile Fiction, Fairies, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Fantasy, Other, Orphans & Foster Homes, General, Orphans
Categories: Fantasy, Suspense, Young Adult Fiction
"Here in the Cellar," Corinna says, "I control the Folk. Here, I'm queen of the world." As Folk Keeper at the Rhysbridge Home, she feeds the fierce, dark-dwelling cave Folk; keeps them from souring the milk, killing the chickens, and venting their anger on the neighborhood; and writes it all down in her Folk Record. Since only boys are Folk Keepers, she has disguised herself as a boy, Corin, and it is a boy and a Folk Keeper she intends to stay.
Yet there comes a moment when someone else knows the truth. Old, dying Lord Merton not only knows she is a girl, but knows some of her other secrets as well. It is at his bidding that she, as Corin, leaves Rhysbridge to become Folk Keeper and a member of the family on Cliffsend, an isle where the Folk are fiercer than ever they were at Rhysbridge.
It is on Cliffsend that Corinna comes face to face with herself, with the powers she does have (some quite unexpected) and those she does not have (even if she lies and says she does). Who really is she? Why does her hair grow two inches a night? Why does the sea draw her? What does she really want? And what future can and will she choose?
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