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  The Wicked Years: Book 1

  Wicked

  The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  by Gregory Maguire

  When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where... (more)
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  The Wicked Years: Book 2

  Son of a Witch

  by Gregory Maguire

  In this captivating New York Times bestseller, beloved author Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz and introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. At the Cloister of Saint Glinda the silent novice Candle tends to him, willing him back to... (more)
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  Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister

  by Gregory Maguire

  Is this new land a place where magic really happens? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We... (more)
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  Mirror Mirror

  by Gregory Maguire

  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. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a... (more)
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  Mirrorworld: Book 1

  Reckless

  by Cornelia Funke

  For years, Jacob Reckless has been escaping to another world--a world behind the mirror, where witches haunt the forests and fairies and dwarfs roam. A world for treasure hunts and magnificent quests--but also a world locked in a deadly war. Jacob's secret seems safe, until one day his younger brother Will follows him, to disastrous consequence. Faced with a curse that is quickly turning Will to stone, the... (more)
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  The Looking Glass Wars: Book 3

  ArchEnemy

  by Frank Beddor

  Discover the fate of Wonderland -- and imagination itself -- in this riveting conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy. The Heart Crystal’s power has been depleted, and Imagination along with it. The people of Wonderland have all lost their creative drive, and most alarmingly, even Queen Alyss is without her powers. There is some comfort in the fact that the vicious Redd Heart seems to be similarly... (more)
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  The Looking Glass Wars: Book 2

  Seeing Redd

  by Frank Beddor

  Alyss of Wonderland’s rule has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal bodyguard, Homburg Molly, Alyss does her best to keep pace with the spiraling, non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss’s life is already a challenging mix of duty, love,... (more)
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  Fairy Tales (Alex Flinn): Book 2

  A Kiss in Time

  by Alex Flinn

  Talia fell under a spell . . . Jack broke the curse.I was told to beware the accursed spindle, but it was so enchanting, so hypnotic. . . . I was looking for a little adventure the day I ditched my tour group. But finding a comatose town, with a hot-looking chick asleep in it, was so not what I had in mind. I awakened in the same place but in another time—to a stranger's soft kiss. ... (more)
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  The Wicked Years: Book 3

  A Lion Among Men

  by Gregory Maguire

  Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with... (more)
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  Entwined

  by Heather Dixon

  Azalea and her 11 sisters dance in the mysterious silver forest every night, escaping from the sadness of the palace and their father’s grief over the death of his beloved wife. What they don’t understand—although as time passes they begin to get an inkling of the danger they are in—is that the mysterious and dashing Keeper is tightening his snare with deadly purpose. Luckily, Azalea is brave and steadfast.... (more)
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  The Book of Lost Things

  by John Connolly

  New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those... (more)
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  Fairytale Retellings: Book 2

  Sweetly

  by Jackson Pearce

  SWEETLY is a modernization of Hansel and Gretel and a companion book to SISTERS RED.Twelve years ago, Gretchen, her twin sister, and her brother went looking for a witch in the forest. They found something. Maybe it was a witch, maybe a monster, they aren’t sure—they were running too fast to tell. Either way, Gretchen’s twin sister was never seen again.Years later, after being thrown out of... (more)
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  The Paper Bag Princess

  by Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko

  The Princess Elizabeth is meant to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald--who is less than pleased at how unprincess like she appears.
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  Red Riding Hood

  by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, David Leslie Johnson

  Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henry, the handsome son of the backsmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home. After her sister's violent death, Valerie's world begins to spiral out of control. For generations, the Wolf has been kept at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But... (more)
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  Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes

  by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

  Do you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, and that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Premier storyteller Roald Dahl twists the fate of six favorite fairy tales, in this picture book edition. Fairy tales have never been more revolting!
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  Rapunzel and Jack: Book 1

  Rapunzel's Revenge

  by Nathan Hale, Dean Hale, Shannon Hale

  Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother. (Or the woman she thought was her mother.) Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked... (more)
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  Fairytale Retellings: Book 1

  Sisters Red

  by Jackson Pearce

  The story of Scarlett and Rosie March, two highly-skilled sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves) -- who prey on teen girls -- since Scarlett lost her eye years ago while defending Rosie in an attack that killed their Grandma, their only real guardian. Now Scarlett lives to destroy the Fenris, and she and Rosie lure them in with their long flowing red cloaks (a color the wolves can't resist), though... (more)
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  Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

  by James Finn Garner

  A whimsical adaptation of classic fairy tales and bedtime stories removes all kinds of bias and objective language from such traditional tales as ""Chicken Little,"" ""Rapunzel,"" ""The Three Little Pigs,"" ""Cinderella,"" and many others.
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  Mermaid

  A Twist on the Classic Tale

  by Carolyn Turgeon

  The story of two very different women, one mortal, one mermaid, and the clash between worlds best kept apart... It is a cold day at the end of the world when a young woman, a princess in hiding, looks out across a Northern sea and sees something she could not have seen. It looks...it can't be. It looks like a mermaid's tail. And, as she looks more closely, she sees that the mermaid is dragging a drowning sailor in... (more)
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  Princess Novels: Book 1

  The Stepsister Scheme

  by Jim C. Hines

  You know how all those old fairy tales take you through lots of scary adventures till you finally reach that inevitable line: "And they lived happily ever after. . . ." Guess what? It's not true. Life in never-never land isn't all sweetness and light. Cinderella -- whose real name is Danielle Whiteshore (nee Danielle de Glas) -- does marry Prince Armand. And (if you can ignore the pigeon incident) their wedding is... (more)