Aliera doesn't really fit in anywhere - the jocks don't take fencers, she doesn't wear enough black to be goth, and her grades aren't good enough to hang out with the nerds. Her whole life is devoted to fencing - except Saturdays, when Aliera hangs out with her cousin Caroline, who's stuck in a wheelchair. Caroline's had rhematoid arthritis ever since Aliera can remember, and even though Aliera's the one with the amazing fencing skills, she's pretty sure Caroline's the brave one. And that's pretty much Aliera's life - until two ordinary events change everything.Aliera's mom is a big bargain shopper. Usually, Aliera just ignores the junk she brings home, but when she scores a new practice foil for $2, Aliera figures she can just pop off the cheesy red jewel hot glued to the grip. The weird thing is, she can't get it off. Even weirder, it seems to help her fencing.
The other thing is Aliera's new lab partner. Avery. Gorgeous, track star, almost too perfect, new guy Avery, who, for some reason, laughs at Aliera's jokes. Sure, there are weird things about him - like how he seems to like dissecting the frog in bio. And the way he talks sometimes. But when Avery asks Aliera to go to a movie after fencing practice, there's no way she can say no, even though it means skipping out on role-playing with Caroline.
You'll have to read Foiled to find out what happens on their date, but let's just say that Aliera finds out there's way more to her new, bejeweled practice foil than she could have guessed, and that all that role-playing with Caroline - well, turns out that her role as Defender and Caroline's as Queen may not have been as much of a game as Aliera thought.
Foiled is a swashbuckling graphic novel adventure about the magic of discovering who you really are and that things are most definately not always what they seem - sometimes they're much, much more exciting. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Check out Foiled @ the library to discover for yourself!
Megan
(now reading I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Nimura)