01961cam a2200289 4500 774375830 TxAuBib 20230426120000.0 050526s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780689868221 $16.95 0689868227 $16.95 9780689868238 pbk. $8.99 0689868235 pbk. $8.99 9780689868221 (OCoLC)969015634 TxAuBib Black, Holly. Valiant : a modern faerie tale / Holly Black. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. 314 p. ; 22 cm. When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. There's the impulsive Lolli who talks of monsters in the tunnels and shoots up a strange amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. There's the severe Luis who the others claim can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet. When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. 20230426. Trolls Fiction. Magic Fiction. New York (N.Y.) Fiction.