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Author
Publisher
Published by Michael di Capua Books/Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A new Grimm tale, part of a letter written by Wilhelm to a little girl in 1816, came to light in 1983. A mother sends her daughter into the forest to save her from a terrible war. There she finds refuge with St. Joseph.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository, " and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
5) Beastly
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
6) Valiant
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Set in the seedy underworld of nineteenth-century Coney Island during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, two orphans are determined to stop evil forces from claiming the city of New York"--
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Matilda 'Tilly' Castillo gets injured senior year, and she's sure her dreams of becoming a contemporary dancer have slipped away. When she gets a chance to spend the summer with a New York dance troupe, nothing can stop her from saying yes. Her mother sets two conditions: Tilly will regularly visit her abuela in New Jersey; and, after the summer, she'll give up dancing and go off to college. She meet Sabrina Wolfrik, who also intends to succeed at...