Gregory Maguire
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
The sequel to Wicked returns to the land of Oz to tell the story of Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left...
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia.
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this third novel of the "New York Times"-bestselling series, civil war looms in Oz, and an ancient oracle named Yackle prepares for death. But before she can die, the Cowardly Lion arrives seeking knowledge about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West--the woman who had defended him when he was a cub.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
We have all heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty ... and what curses accompanied Cinderella's looks?
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 4
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Liir's daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz.
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will by a writer of children's books. It tells the story of Elphaba before she became the Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. The novel traces her career as nun, nurse, pro-democracy activist and animal rights defender.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"As the new millennium approaches, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Clocked by a Catholic statuette, Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues. Her daughter, Tabitha Scales, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus--whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K. Only a modern master like Gregory Maguire can spin a tale this...
Author
Series
Another day volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The brides of Maracoor finds Elphaba's granddaughter Rain "washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices. As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island's civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire...
11) Lost
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of "Wicked" and "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", famed children's book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West: Tells the story of Elphaba before she became the Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz, tracing her career as nun, nurse, pro-democracy activist and animal rights defender.
Son of a witch: The sequel to Wicked returns to the land of Oz to tell the story of Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy defeated Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West....
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 1
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In Maguire's Oz, Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West, is not wicked; nor is she a formally schooled witch. Instead, she's an insecure, unfortunately green Munchkinlander who's willing to take radical steps to unseat the tyrannical Wizard of Oz.
Author
Publisher
Decca Broadway
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A rewriting of the Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West's perspective. She's really a good witch who has a perfectly good explanation for all the seemingly evil things she seemed to have done. If only you knew the circumstances, you'd like her, really you would.