Examines prose writing, and focuses on writing strong characters, and discusses heroes, villians, minor characters, and other related topics; and includes example excerpts from well known authors including Jane Austen.
As a third-grader who hates to read unwillingly looks at a book, the characters come alive and interest him so much that he really begins to care about them, and begins turning the pages...
Shy, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is suddenly transported by a mysterious book into the Land of Story, where characters from books hope to be cast into a tale of their own, and Una attends the Perrault Academy while trying to discover why she is there.
Cinderella's son worries that his mean cousins will beat him in the King's Race, so the fairy godmother who helped his mother reappears with some assistance for him.
Against the odds, a peasant boy in seventeenth-century France strives to become one of the famous swordsmen known as the Musketeers, and the reader is asked to make choices throughout the story to determine the outcome.
Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly, fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep a safe full of magical "starstuff" away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin.
