The Bronze King is the first of a trilogy for young adults featuring Valentine Marsh. As in the first novel, the two subsequent books combine family issues and fantastic battles. In The Silver Glove, Granny Gran runs away from the nursing home to avoid capture by an evil wizard. That wizard soon arrives at Valentine's school, posing as a psychologist, and begins to date Valentine's divorced mother. It is up to Valentine to defeat the wizard and reestablish her family. In the third book, The Golden Thread, amid the background of her grandmother's stroke and the arrival of a mysterious girl, Bosanka, Valentine must aid her friend Joel Wechsler who has been studying music but suddenly discovers that he is no longer able to play the violin. Particularly because of such recurring images and issues as music and family concerns, this trilogy featuring Valentine Marsh aptly...