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English
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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he's spending the summer is the testing ground of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 8
Language
English
Description
A bump on the head suffered during gym class causes middle school drama queen Nikki Maxwell to have a crazy dream where all of her acquaintances assume the roles of familiar fairy tale characters.
4) Flunked
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 1
Language
English
Description
When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School, where all of the teachers are former villains, including the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.
5) Tricked
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 3
Language
English
Description
Gilly's little sister Anna lands in reform school just in time to greet the strict new headmaster.
Author
Series
Fairy-tale matchmaker volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Defying her mother's wishes and the Tooth Fairy Guild, Cory quits her tooth fairy training to explore such things as babysitting an adventurous Humpty Dumpty and helping Suzy organize her seashells by the seashore until, at last, Cory discovers a power she never knew she had.
7) Inkheart
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
8) Inkspell
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This clever alphabet book... Wait, that's not right. This original fairy tale... Nope. Mystery? Joke book? Superhero story? Pirate adventure? This delightful mash-up features every kind of character found in the picture-book universe--all in one book. Just when the reader is convinced the story is going in one direction, it spins off in another."--Amazon.
11) A book
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Once in a book by Mordecai Gerstein ... there lived a family of characters." This is the tale of one little girl's search for her own story.
Author
Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In this wordless picture book, a variation on the classic fairy tale, Little Red has baked a cake with her father and they set off for Grandma's house, but along the way they are trailed by a cat who loves cakes.
15) Lost in a book
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again....
17) Everland
Author
Series
Everland volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Goblin and Troll are headed to town for tea, hoping they don't run into any wretched children. Children are smelly and rude! Goblin has an idea: they'll find the rudest child of all and have it for dinner! Filled with a cast of familiar storytime characters like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, here's a fresh read-aloud with the feel of a classic fairy tale. Chock-full of rude characters and sly humor, and with a twist ending, this surprising story...
Author
Series
It's not a fairy tale volume 2
Publisher
Two Lions, an imprint of Amazon Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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, that's for sure! And that sweet old lady who lives in a house made of cookies and candy? There's no way she's an evil witch! As for Gretel, well, she's about to set the record straight--after all, who says the story can't be called Gretel and Hansel? It's time for these wacky siblings to...
Author
Series
Fairy-tale matchmaker volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Born to be a tooth fairy, Cory Feathering has been busy proving she's meant for another life -one of matchmaking! It seems like everything is falling into place for Cory. Her uncle Micah is engaged to his perfect match, and she's lucky in love herself with her boyfriend Blue. She's excited to help prepare for the wedding, but when she hears of another marriage on the horizon her mother's, to a goblin she knows things might not go quite as planned....
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