The Folk Keeper

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Summary: A Lovely Story
Review: The Folk Keeper was a short and great story. Filled with imagination at its best, it led the reader through without any problems with the exception of a little confusion at the beginning. Very grand indeed.

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Summary: This book stuck in my head long after I read it
Review: This beautiful poetic book is mysterious and thought-provoking. I wanted to read it over and over again until I had it memorized. The writing is supreme and the plot is wonderful. I am in love with both of the main characters!

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Summary: The Folk Keeper
Review: This is a great book. It's not Tamora Pierce or anything, but that's too much to ask for anyway. At times the main character seems a little too knowledgeable about her own hard-heartedness, the romance a little too clumsy, and the plot a little too thought out, but, all in all, The Folk Keeper is a really intelligent and suspenseful story.

Corinna Stonewall has disguised herself as a boy-Corin-to become a folk keeper. Folk keepers protect the surrounding lands from the fierce folk, who destroy crops, livestock, and food if unpleased. Suddenly, a lady comes to take her away from her cellar. There is a dying man who wants to see her, one who not only knows that she is a girl, but many of her other secrets as well. He makes her swear to leave her town to come to his mansion, where she will be a folk keeper. She agrees, knowing the folk there are fiercer than anything she has ever encountered. While trying to keep these horrific beasts at bay, she discovers many old family grudges in the mansion, as well as secrets about herself she had never imagined. In the end, she will have to choose between the place she loves best and the place she has always been kept from...

Despite the slight stylistic problems, I myself have read this book ten or so times. It is definitely a worthy addition to any fantasy-lover's collection, and is all-around a wonderful book.

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Summary: A great book!
Review: This was a great read! At first it didn't really draw me in, but as I read on it just got better and better! You feel like you are actually interacting with the main character, Corinna, and that you are right next to her as she goes through different situations. The author gives very in-depth and vivd descriptions of the settings and emotions of characters throughout the whole book. A little confusing at times, but otherwise very believable and enjoyable.

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Summary: the folk keeper by: franny billingsley
Review: when you first start reading this book it is sort of confusing but once you get to the second or third chapter you start to understand what's happening and you get hooked!
this is a great book to read if your interested in mystery/fantasy novels
the setting takes place at the rhysbridge estate
it's about a girl trying to find out who she really is and why certain things are happening to her: like why her hair grows 2" a night and why is she attracted to the sea
when she finds out why she has to choose between the land and the water. which will she choose?
you have to read the book to find out!!!
i recommend this book to all who enjoy a great book!

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Summary: Glowingly recommended for all audiobook libraries!
Review: Wonderfully narrated by Marian Tomas Griffin, Franny Billingsley's The Folk Keeper is the imaginative, entertaining, unabridged audiobook story of Corinna who, as Folk Keeper at the Rhysbridge Home, feeds the fierce, dark-dwelling cave Folk and thereby keeping them from souring the milk, killing the chickens, and venting their anger on the neighborhood. Corinna writes everything down in her Folk Record. But since only boys are permitted to be Folk Keepers, she must disguise herself as a boy, and it is a boy and a Folk Keeper she intends to stay. But then the Lord Merton (at whose bidding she became a Folk Keeper) is old and dying, her secret is threatened with exposure. Corinna must face herself, with the powers she has, to discover who she really is, why her hair grows two inches a night, why the sea draws her, what she really wants, and what future she can and will choose. Glowingly recommended for personal, school, and community library audiobook collections, The Folk Keeper is a superbly produced, technically flawless, 4 hour and 47 minute production on three cassettes.