mirrors

A retelling of Snow White from the evil step mother's point of view as fifteen-year-old Dolce grows up on islands in a Venetian lagoon where she learns how to make mirrors, but when her mother dies she is taken in by a widower and his daughter while she secretly continues making mirrors and slowly goes mad from mercury poisoning.

"Ophelia must rely on all her skills as a reader to stay ahead of her adversaries while on the ark of Babel, desperately longing for her betrothed, Thorn"--OCLC.

"Halan was once a powerless princess. Now she's taken her rightful place as queen of the Magi Kingdom, a blazing desert land ruled by ancient magic. Still devoid of her own magical powers, she wonders if she'll ever be the strong ruler her people deserve. Nalah used to be a powerful pauper. Now she's the Queen's Sword, standing beside Halan at the helm of the kingdom. But the more Nalah's powers grow, the more unruly they become. Does she have it in her to become the powerful Thauma she is meant to be? One vision changes everything. While Nalah embarks on a quest across the desert to harness her powers, Halan must travel through the Trascendent Mirror to help the Thaumas of New Hadar. As a dark threat draws closer, can Nalah and Halan reunite to save both worlds--and the future of magic?"--Dust jacket.

The Ice Princess's magic mirror is broken, one piece is missing, and without it the Enchanted Kingdom is locked in a terrible, unseasonable, heat wave (even the palace is melting); two children, Kara and Zed, are determined to help, but first they must figure out whether the break is the result of the sibling rivalry between the Ice Princess and her sister the Sun Princess--or did the monkey do it?.

A magic mirror reveals itself to diverse princesses when each needs it most, illuminating how their power comes not from titles or beauty, but from inner strength.

"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiance? to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark knownas the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that sheis a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world."--Amazon.

"A read-aloud storybook about cunning, courage and survival in which a girl sets out to save her father from the giant who turns everyone she meets to stone"--Provided by publisher.

Abby is feeling slighted by not being chosen festival leader at school, and her brother Jonah thinks that a trip through the magic mirror is just what she needs--but when they find themselves in a strange version of the Princess and the pea, and Abby is tagged as the princess, who will be the next ruler of the Kingdom of Bog (which is very damp and infested with alligators), she is not so much complimented as desperate to find an alternate princess, and get herself and her brother home.

When an alien ship is destroyed above Earth, a fog is released that covers everything and turns reflective surfaces into portals that release monsters. Although there is a ban on mirrors, seventeen-year-old Marty Callahan, who suffers from OCD, becomes an illegal distributor of mirrors until he's caught. Marty is exiled along with the mayor's son Elliott to an abandoned city overrun by fog. But Marty is determined to find his brother Ty in London, so he and Elliott set aside their differences and embark on a quest that reveals the truth behind the spaceship and the danger threatening Earth.

While Merle, Junipa, and the great flying stone lion accompany an Egyptian high priest to the fortress of the powerful sphinx, Serafin and Eft voyage deep beneath the ocean to ask the help of a sea witch in freeing Venice from the Pharoah and his mummy warriors.