Tithe : A Modern Faerie Tale

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young adult fantasy novel by Holly Black, author of the Spiderwick Chronicles. It was first published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster. Tithe is about sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch. The book begins in Philadelphia, at one of Kaye's mother's concerts. After her mother's boyfriend, Lloyd, attempts to stab her mother for unknown reasons, her mother takes her back to Kaye's grandmother's house to stay. Once at her grandmoth... more

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young adult fantasy novel by Holly Black, author of the Spiderwick Chronicles. It was first published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster. Tithe is about sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch. The book begins in Philadelphia, at one of Kaye's mother's concerts. After her mother's boyfriend, Lloyd, attempts to stab her mother for unknown reasons, her mother takes her back to Kaye's grandmother's house to stay. Once at her grandmother's house, Kaye beings to look for her old "imaginary" friends, who were faeries named Lutie-Loo, Spike, and Gristle. However, she can't find them and, begins to suspect that they were simply figments of her imagination. Her suspicions dissolve when she finds and saves the life of Roiben, a faerie knight, by pulling a magicked arrow out of his chest. In return, he grants her three truthfully answered questions about anything, which she does not immediately use. Soon after this, her old "imaginary" friends contact her and warn her that Roiben... less