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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her evil aunt Redd kills her parents and seizes the throne, young Alyss Heart is forced to flee Wonderland through the Pool of Tears. She finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy-tale ending. And Raina's love story...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keeping up evil appearances is hexexhausting work for Faybelle Thorn. But as the daughter of the legendary Dark Fairy, it's all part of her story. So when Justine Dancer is looking for a fairy to audition for a part in her new play, Faybelle' not interested ... until she finds out the role is that of a wicked fairy queen. Faybelle finds out she has some pretty stiff competition and resorts to drastic measures to land it: dark magic.
Author
Publisher
America's Best Comics
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a group composed of characters taken from late 19th Century literature, as they defend Britain against various villains. Includes the text story "Allan and the Sundered Veil" by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
11) Hero
Author
Series
Woodcutter sisters volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Saturday Woodcutter accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard and, with sword in tow, sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and held captive by a mountain witch with the power to destroy the world.
13) The insider
Author
Series
Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback, but a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory-- a lost icon.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys, is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures who are after starstuff hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it's up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the creatures' clutches...
Author
Series
Eddie Bear mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, Jack set out to seek his fortune in the big city. But he gets a bit lost and wanders off the map. When he finally arrives, the big city turns out to be Toy City-formerly Toy Town.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books, until he learns he is a character in a book about the rise and fall of this very Pinch.
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