Despite his having been careful not to enter the Shadow Forest, as his Aunt Eda had warned, twelve-year-old Samuel Blink finds himself in a difficult situation when Troll-Son runs away from his Shadow Forest home with aims to live with Samuel, his human hero.
A retelling of the classic fairy tale about Troll, who scares the two younger Billy Goats and other students at school into giving him their stuff, until he meets the third Billy Goat.
Two trolls, Nip and Tuck, discuss the difference between here and there, write poems while sliding on the ice, and find an old clock that is stopped at five o'clock.
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.
Two trolls, Nip and Tuck, discuss the differences between here and there, write poems while sliding on the ice, and find an old clock that is stopped at five o'clock.
Fourteen-year-old Matt forms an uneasy alliance with Tuava-Li the elf and Tomtar the troll in an attempt to restore to well-being the tree at the northern pole whose roots bind the worlds together, while Matt's nine-year-old sister Becky tries to free their captive parents with Asra's help.
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover that she is a faerie and she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from enemy trolls.
