The Hostage Prince / Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple / 232 pages

This is book one of the Seelie Wars and it's a great story.  Match up two unlikely characters, a midwife's apprentice who's a lot sharper than people think and a young prince with a high opinion of what nobility is and has been kept hostage in the Unseelie Court to prevent a war and you've got the makings of a fine story.  Add in a dash of a corrupt, conniving creature who is a courtier and the plot thickens.  There's humor, adventure, courage, trickery and more afoot in this book for middle grade readers.