# Valiant

**Author:** Holly Black
**Grade range:** Grades 5–12
**First published:** 2012
**Page count:** 253
**Genre:** Science Fiction & Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9781471116247`
**ISBN-10:** `1471116247`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/valiant-a-modern-tale-of-faerie
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Rediscover the dark and seductive realm of faerie in the second book of the critically acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series from the bestselling author of The Cruel Prince – Holly Black. When Valerie runs away to New York to escape her old life, she decides to sport a new identity and take up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. There’s something suspicious about her new friends, but she can’t quite put her finger on it. When Val is talked into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, she’s drawn into a world she never knew existed. But to leave with her life intact, she must strike a bargain. What’s Val willing to risk?

## Where this book is assigned

### Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Andre Norton Award (SFWA) winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2005 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award)

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