Gardner, Sally

Presents an early-reader version of the story of "Cinderella." Cinderella feels left out when her stepmother and sisters attend the Royal Ball without her, but then her Fairy Godmother shows up to make everything better.

At the age of nine, Emily Vole, a foundling raised to be housemaid and nanny for a wealthy couple, inherits a shop and discovers a magical world where, with the help of Fidget the talking cat, she must try to save fairies being targeted by a terrible witch.

A collection of five classic fairy tales featuring princes and princesses.

When Sleeping Beauty is cursed to sleep for one hundred years, a forest of thorns grows around her castle and resting place. Eventually, her true love locates her, and his kiss breaks the curse and allows them to be together.

After Boolar is asked to join a puppet theater, he forgets about the dolls and mice who have been his family, until a crisis helps him regain perspective.

Coriander, a girl in seventeenth-century London who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use her power to save herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.

Two stories about children who, after enduring difficulties in life, develop magical powers that improve their lives immeasurably.

Two stories about ordinary children who suddenly develop magical powers, the first, an eight-year-old girl who uses her strength for good instead of for fun and the second, a boy whose invisibility helps him find his missing parents.

Friendship and trust inspire Standish to rise up againt an oppressive regime and expose the truth about a planned moon landing.

As the Revolution descends into the ferocious Reign of Terror, Yann, now an extraordinary practioner of magic, uses his skills to confound his enemies and help spirit refugees out of France, but the question of his true identity and the kidnapping of his true love, Sido, expose him to dangers that threaten to destroy him.