Zahler, Diane

"Twelve-year-old Princess Aurora has been cursed to prick her finger and sleep for one hundred years, but before her fate can come to pass, she and her sister Luna embark on a perilous journey to find the fairy who can break the curse"--Provided by publisher.

Combines test-taking strategies with facts and trivia to help students score higher on the cultural literacy section of standardized tests.

The harsh dictatorship that Burma has endured for many years is explored, and Than Shwe's human rights abuses are highlighted.

Includes fifteen pop quizzes testing cultural literacy.

Twelve-year-old Princess Meriel must sew shirts from stinging nettles in order to rescue her five older brothers from their evil stepmother's spell lest they remain swans forever. Inspired by the Andersen fairy tale, "The Wild Swans.".

Zita, rejected by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly 12 that she is a princess and she tries to save her twelve sisters from an evil enchantment.

Twelve-year-old Lilia goes north to seek the family she has never known, accompanied by her friends Kai and Karina and their dog Ove, on an adventure fraught with peril, especially when they become lost in Bitra Forest, the Elf King's domain. Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The princess and the pea.