Anne Ursu wasn’t interested in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales when she was growing up in Minneapolis, so she didn’t read “The Snow Queen” until a few years ago. Ursu was so enchanted by ...

Ursu (Spilling Clarence, for adults) tantalizingly tells her tale, the first entry in the Cronus Chronicles, out of order, building suspense and integrating Greek mythology as she goes. In the first ...

“This is the hardest book I’ve ever written,” Anne Ursu says of “The Lost Girl,” her new middle-grade novel about identical twins, crows, girls’ friendship, greed, a creepy antiques shop and a ...