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Huzzah and Cheers for Renaissance Faire Reads!

Miss going to our Renaissance Festivals and faires? Here are some fun reads about knights, damsels, mythological beings, and every day people just living their best fan life!

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • Rowena reluctantly takes on a job as a Face painter at the Fest but finds her affections torn between a whip trick performer and a jousting knight. How will this rom-com play out for the 'faire' lady?
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2014. — YF
  • (also available in e-book and downloadable audiobook) If you like Raina Telgemeier, you will definitely like Victoria Jamieson's Graphic Novel. A homeschool girl aspires to train as a squire and then become a knight at the Fest she has…
    Graphic NovelNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2017] — JF JAMIESON
  • (also e-book) A serving wench at a Medieval Dinner theatre takes on the guise of her brother's knight. She then becomes an internet sensation. She and her feminist friends and colleagues battle sexism, cyber trolls and bad managers!…
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2020. — YF PACTON
  • (also available in e-book and downloadable audiobook) A relocated sister finds herself volunteering with her niece for the local Renaissance Faire. She clashes with one of the leading administrators, who doubles as a sexy pirate in the…
    BookNew York : Jove, 2019. — F DELUCA
  • Jules plays a prophetess in a Tudor-style Dinner theatre experience. Swoon-worthy dream guy works there too. However, a dead body appearing may reveal more secrets about the employees in this light-hearted mystery.
    BookFort Collins, CO : Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2016. — YF
  • (also e-book) She wants a hero! A tech girl wants a real man, a knight! When a handsome Brit saves her from a horse-crash collision, She just might get her White Knight!
    Large PrintWaterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2005. — F
  • (also in e-book) What would you do to get back at the guy who ruined your life? Between juggling jobs, school, social and romantic life, its all Wesley James' fault!
    BookNew York : Swoon Reads, 2017. — YF HONEYBOURNE
  • After the girl with 'tree allergies' is sent to live with her father at the Ren Faire he works at, things become a little magical.
    BookWoodbury, Minn. : Flux, [2007] — YF
  • Apprenticing as a Hat maker while working on her Renaissance Studies PHD leads from head coverings to finding a dunk and drowned chocolatier. Can she solve this mystery?
    BookNew York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2011. — F LAVENE
  • (also available in Large Print and e-book) The paranormally-savvy Aunt Dimity must save the local Ren Faire from some troubling...( read it and you'll see)
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Viking, 2009. — F
  • A ghost huntress moves to a town with no spooks. A Rennie (Ren Fest staff members, Entertainers or Merchants)'s disbelieving son must face off against a destructive monster!
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2017] — JF ALEXANDER
  • Escape the Medieval Castle

    Use the Clues, Solve the Puzzles, Make Our Escape

    Caldwell, Stella
    If you like 'You Choose', Escape Rooms and the Middle Ages, check out this hands-on interactive adventure. I can't tell you anything else without giving it away, but believe me, its a lot of fun!
    BookSan Farael, CA : EarthAware Kids, 2022. — 930 C127