fairy tales

Contains forty-seven fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, including "The Little Match Girl," "The Snow Queen," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Tinderbox.".

The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.

"At Grimrose Acad?mie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next. Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly power under control. One knows exactly how much time she has left. And one, trying to escape her dark destiny, will come even closer to fulfilling it. Can the girls change their own stories and break the curse? Or must one of them die to end it forever?"--OCLC.

After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and changes him into a handsome prince.

Retells the classic tale of a nutcracker, given to young Clara as a Christmas present, that magically turns into a prince.

A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.

When A?fe's sister dies, she is forced to marry her widower, the chieftain Lir. She promised to protect her sister's children, but Lir's mistreatment drives Aife to use her magic aganist them. This savage retelling of a classic Irish fairy tale gives voice to A?fe, the scorned woman who took terrible vengeance on the children of Lir.

The League of Seven follows the yellow brick road to retrieve the sword of Excalibur and save Fil's mother from Olga's evil clutches.

Young fashionista Milly is excited to compete in a design contest, so when a strange custodian appears with an offer to help she accepts, but is wary of the catch: she must guess the mysterious person's favorite thing to wear or give up the first-place prize. In graphic novel format.

Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister, Pili, there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another, his faith begins to fade--until one day he finds a mysterious book in the library that contains a map to Rio Luna ... and a way to find Pili.