characters and characteristics in literature

In 2083, eighteen-year-old Jules Capulet is still reeling from the end of her romance with Romeo--which left him in a coma and her a social outcast--when Heathcliff Ellis arrives from another time, on a mission to revive Romeo and possibly rewrite the future.

"Loosely based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson entangles herself and her family with mischievous fairies when she seeks to win a baking contest"--Publisher.

Queen of Hearts tells an original tale of Wonderland's short-tempered (and statured!) royal ruler, just in time for Valentine's Day and the animated film's 70th anniversary!.

After solving the mystery of Tilly's mother's disappearance, Tilly and her best friend Oskar, discover that the bookwandering community is at risk. Tilly and Oskar are part of a special group of people, bookwanderers, that can travel inside any book they want to. But one day in Paris, France, the friends stumble into a book of fairy tales where strange things are happening. Plus, an extreme group of librarians have taken over the British Underlibrary and are determined to stop bookwandering. Tilly and Oskar believe The Archivists are the key to setting things right, but they haven't been seen for thousands of years and some people don't even believe they ever existed. On their quest for The Archivists, the two friends realize that villains don't only live inside books and sometimes there is no happily ever after.

"Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature--chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age--a . . . psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction"--Provided by publisher.

"Best friends Fern the bear and Otto the cat meet various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters on a walk through the forest to gather story ideas"--OCLC.

A series of letters describe the actions of Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, the Three Pigs, Little Red Hen, and other storybook characters when Little Red Hen and her chicks become the target of the unsavory Wolf and his cousin, Fer O'Cious.

"Tilly Pages and her friend Oskar journey to Washington, D.C., where she wanders inside the books at the Library of Congress and they try to stop a nefarious plan with some powerful help"--Provided by publisher.

"Nothing ever happens in Cara Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. But one day, when Cara is walking home on her own, something strange happens. Cara is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. She must be dreaming, or still reading a book. But Jack is insistent--he's real, the stories are real, and Cara must come with him at once! Soon, Cara is thrust into the world of evil fairies and beautiful princesses, sorcerers and slayers, where an evil queen drives her ruthless armies to destroy what is left of the Fairy tribes. To save herself and the kingdom of Westphalia, Cara must find the truth behind the fairytales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more"--OCLC.

Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.