characters and characteristics in literature

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Snow White and the unevil queen

an untraditional graphic novel
2023
"Sarah is a school bully, but when she falls into the Snow White fairy tale she meets the Evil Queen, and decides that being evil is not really much fun--and sets out to convince the Queen that being nice has its reward"--OCLC.

The three little superpigs and the Gingerbread Man

2022
When the Big Bad Wolf bakes a villainous Gingerbread Man to steal Fairyland's bake-off prize, the key to the city, in his cunning attempt to escape prison, the three superpigs step up and try to stop him.

Enter the body

In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.

Pride and premeditation

2022
Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.

Once upon another time

2022
Five and a half feet might seem pretty tall for a twelve-year-old, but it's not when your parents are giants. Lena has kept the fact that she's a tiny giant secret, using magic to grow when out in the giant village. Someone who knows not to judge by appearances is Jin, a young genie currently serving one thousand and thirty-eight years of genie training that requires him to fulfill the wish of whoever holds his magical ring. What Lena and Jin don't know is how close the Golden King's plans are to coming together, between his dark magic and his horrible Faceless knights. If Jin does find the Last Knight and bring him to the Golden King, why, that could doom the entire fairy-tale world.

The bottomless book

A ghoulish book of nursery rhymes is missing its ending, and anyone who stumbles into its pages falls forever in an endlesss nightmare.

Once upon a scream

2022
Stuck helping her eccentric aunts in their dusty antique shop, Dawn accidentally awakens Maleficent, who casts a mysterious sleeping spell over the town, forcing Dawn to put an end to this nightmare.

Isabella, star of the story

2020
While visiting the library, Isabella, a purple-haired girl who loves books, pretends to be her favorite children's book characters.

Enola Holmes and the black barouche

2022
When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.

Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky

the graphic novel
2022
"Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky"--Provided by publisher.

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