Jessica Day George
Tuesdays at the Castle, Dragon Slippers, the Princess of the Midnight Ball — middle-grade and YA fantasy with warmth and craft.
Jessica Day George's Castle Glower series (Tuesdays at the Castle and sequels) anchors her middle-grade fantasy catalogue, with a magical sentient castle and royal-family protagonists. Her Dragon Slippers trilogy and the Princess of the Midnight Ball trilogy (fairy-tale retellings) extend the range. Her Rose Legacy and Silver Batal series extend further. The prose is warm and accessible, and her protagonists are reliably young women with real agency in their own stories.
For middle-grade and YA readers. Content stays squarely age-appropriate: peril and magical conflict yes, romantic content handled in the gentle middle-grade-romance register, no graphic content. The reading experience is the pleasure of middle-grade and YA fantasy with consistent warmth and craft. Pick this shelf when you want middle-grade fantasy with sentient castles, fairy-tale retellings handled with care, and strong young female protagonists across multiple connected and standalone series.
- Sentient castle premise
- Fairy-tale retellings with warmth
- Strong young female protagonists
- Multiple series for sustained reading
