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Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously.
Author
Series
Fairy-tale matchmaker volume 4
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Cory finally comes face-to-face with the fairy guilds that have been threatening to make her give up her matchmaking skills and return to her life as a tooth fairy"--
84) Ash & Bramble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
After Pin and Shoe escape from servitude in the Godmother's fortress, they learn that she has taken control of Story, which can warp the world around it, forcing people into its shape, and they decide to try to break out and create their own destinies in this tale that features many familiar characters.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is "inside his own short stories!"
Author
Series
Beau Rivage volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Teenager Viv, who is constantly escaping her "Snow White" fairy-tale curse, meets the prince who is supposed to save her, but can not fall out of love with the young man destined to kill her." --
87) The never king
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they're gone for only a day, some a week or a month. But they always return broken. Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked. But it's pointless. Because when night falls, he comes for me. And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren't willing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"Desperate to escape [her imploding life, failed Broadway actress and high school dropout Josie Pie] gets into reading . . . [and finds herself assuming the identity of] a different character [with each book] . . . It's the perfect way to live out her fantasies. Book after book, Josie the failed star finds a new way to shine. But the longer she stays in a story, the harder it becomes to escape. Will Josie find a story so good that she just stays forever?"...
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Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
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
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to keep their promise to stay together throughout a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm-inspired stories.
91) War of the cards
Author
Series
Queen of Hearts volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Exiled from Wonderland, Dinah hides in the Twisted Wood, but a chance encounter with one of her father's enemies drives her to confront her dark destiny.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
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.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2012]
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
BookWorld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semi-retirement 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...
Author
Series
Queen of Hearts volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Exiled from Wonderland, Dinah hides in the Twisted Wood, but a chance encounter with one of her father's enemies drives her to confront her dark destiny.
Author
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eleven-year-old inventor Sol must recover his self-confidence if he and his eight-year-old sister, Connie, are to escape the clutches of Hansel and Gretel's witch, to whom they have been led by their new stepmother and the man they believe to be their father.
97) Robinson, Crusoe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Formats
Description
"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"Fourteen years after she pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop (in Something Rotten), Thursday Next is grappling with a host of new problems in the BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels. The Council of Genres is trying to broker a peace deal between certain antagonistic genres: Racy Novel has been recklessly placed between Ecclesiastical...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The Fables have been forced from their make-believe world into the real world of pain, betrayal, and jealousy and it threatens to come between two Fables who desire happiness in an uncertain world.