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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2017
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Rise of the Empress Novel

1 - Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Oct-2017)

Team Chu

1 - Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Aug-2022)
2 - Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest (May-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Oct-2017)

The Mirror

Broken Wish (Oct-2020)
The Mirror Broken Wish (Oct-2020)

Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress. Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she i...



  • This fairy tale retelling lives in a mystical world inspired by the Far East, where the Dragon Lord and the Serpent God battle for control of the earthly realm; it is here that the flawed heroine of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns finally meets her mat...



  • From the acclaimed author of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns comes a fantastical new tale of darkness and love, in which magical bonds are stronger than blood. Will love break the spell? After cruelly rejecting Bao, the poor physician's apprenti...



  • Sixteen-year-old Elva has a secret. She has visions and strange powers that she will do anything to hide. She knows the warnings about what happens to witches in their small village of Hanau. She's heard the terrible things people say about the Witch...



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    Sixteen-year-old Elva has a secret. She has visions and strange powers that she will do anything to hide. She knows the warnings about what happens to witches in their small village of Hanau. She''s heard the terrible...



  • A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena is the first book in a commercial middle grade fantasy series by Julie C. Dao.Clip and Sadie Chu couldn’t be more different....



  • Check out acclaimed author Julie C. Dao's debut middle grade series, featuring a team of kids ready for any challengeâ€"even saving the fantasy world of Pantaera from dark forces and certain ruin!In Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest, the popular fanta...



  • In this Team Chu adventure, Vietnamese-American siblings Clip and Sadie Chu -- and friends -- must unearth the mystery behind a haunted Halloween carnival.When Iggy Morales's stylish cat, Tuba, becomes famous on social media, he scores an invite to a...



  • Dracula’s Lucy Westenra like you’ve never seen her before: In this retelling from critically acclaimed author Julie C. Dao, the perfect woman bites back.   Lucy Westenra is beautiful, rich, loved by three men—every inch a l...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Julie C. Dao has published 9 books.

The next book by Julie C. Dao, Now Comes the Mist, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Julie C. Dao, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, was published in October 2017.

Yes. Julie C. Dao has 2 series.