Foiled and Curses! Foiled Again by Jane Yolen
Fencing and magic combine in this tale of a teen girl trying to find her place in high school. The real appeal, beyond an awesome fantasy plot, is the art. The illustrations are highly stylized and mostly in greyscale (the main character, Aliera, is color blind). Then Aliera encounters magic. Anything magical in origin is illustrated in full color. Backgrounds remain grey but the foreground is peppered with yellow fairies, red dragons, green trolls, and more. Visually, that element alone sets these books apart. The second book takes this idea of a regular girl thrown into a magical world and complicates it, the magic intruding on her non-magical life more and more.
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| Aliera sees the magical creatures in full force |
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