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Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips" --...
Author
Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Juvenile
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm and The Grimm conclusion.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
Author
Series
Lost Wonderland diaries volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After returning from Wonderland, Celia and Tyrus journey to the Looking-Glass World to reclaim their mirror images and stop a war between two powerful queens. When the Bandersnatch steals one of Lewis Carroll's lost diaries, Celia and Tyrus try to get it back, only to tumble through a magic mirror into the Looking-Glass World, a place where everything―themselves included―is divided in two. Celia's logic and Tyrus's imagination now belong to their...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A building superintendent rescues a woman from the pool he maintains. He discovers she is a character from a bedtime story and is trying to make her way home. He works with the tenants to protect her from creatures that want to keep her in our world.
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime...
85) Beauty queen
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abby's first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast's roses--her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents miss them.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is an analysis of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but also, as Bloom argues, created human nature as we know it today. Before Shakespeare there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change, with highly individual personalities. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a companion to Shakespeare's...
87) Tricked
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Gilly's little sister Anna lands in reform school just in time to greet the strict new headmaster.
Rumpelstiltskin has taken over Fairy Tale Reform School, where Gilly's younger sister, Anna, has been sentenced, and Gilly must break in to save her.
Author
Series
It's not a fairy tale volume 2
Publisher
Two Lions, an imprint of Amazon Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hansel and Gretel will not listen to their storyteller. For one thing, who leaves a trail of bread crumbs lying around, when there are people starving? Not Hansel, thats for sure! And that sweet old lady who lives in a house made of cookies and candy? Theres no way shes an evil witch! As for Gretel, well, shes about to set the record straightafter all, who says the story cant be called Gretel and Hansel? Its time for these wacky siblings to take their...
Publisher
NTC Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1997, c1991
Language
English
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Description
A dictionary covering the plots and characters of Shakespeare's plays, as well as information on Elizabethan times, culture, and personalities. Includes essays on Shakespeare's poetry, and on the theater and play production of his day.
90) Spill the beans
Series
Whatever after volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abby and Jonah take a trip through the magic mirror and finally end up in Jack and the beanstalk (which happens to be Jonah's favorite story ever)--but things soon start to go wrong, and the children have to try and set the tale right, even if it means trading their dog, Prince, for the magic beans, climbing the beanstalk (three times!), and reaching an amicable settlement with the giants (Magnus and Philippa, who are really quite nice), and the sneaky...
91) Story thieves
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This “clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is the first in the New York Times bestselling series from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real worlds homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 7
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to thwart an angry Deity's...
95) Sugar and spice
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times-bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end -- not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots? But a vacation remains elusive. In no time, Thursday discovers...
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume Related works
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The young queen, Red Riding Hood, gives us her take on politics, government, health, love, and of course, what it means to be royalty.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When B.B. Wolf, who now lives in the Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to the library for a storybook tea, he is careful to follow the advice of his crocodile friend and impresses everyone with how polite he can be.
99) The world's end
Author
Series
Hundred names for magic volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling conclusion to the A Hundred Names for Magic trilogy is not your average fairytale. An unforgettable alternative history fairy-tale series from the author of The Bone Witch about found family, modern day magic, and finding the place you belong. It's been three months since the Snow Queen and OzCorp infiltrated Maidenkeep and nearly seized the Nine Maidens. Ryker is still unconscious and the rest of the group is feeling the effects of...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jack Frost, son of Jack of Fables, has left our world and has decided to make his way to the Imperial Homeworld, where his mother is still trapped under a city of thorns. Along the way he will encounter many fantasy monsters, brigands and troops of roving goblins, and have to battle his way through them. And while Jack Frost undertakes his quest, Jack of Fables is slowly transforming into something unexpected and deadly.
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