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The fourteen fantastical stories in Magic For Unlucky Girls take the familiar tropes of fairytales and twist them into new and surprising shapes. These unlucky girls, struggling against a society that all too often oppresses them, are forced to navigate strange worlds as they try to survive. From carnivorous husbands to a bath of lemons to whirling basements that drive people mad, these stories are about the demons that lurk in the corners and the...
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English
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On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
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English
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Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On her sixteenth birthday, she woke screaming from the sensation that her tongue had been cut out. No doctor can find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that. Now Kathleen is a twenty-five-year-old opera student...
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Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This entertaining STEM-filled picture book, filled with silly jokes and illustrations, follows Professor Goose as she fact-checks Goldilocks and the Three Bears, exposing its flaws and explaining the science behind this classic story.
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cinders, the most picked upon hen in the flock, becomes the most loved by Prince Cockerel when she arrives at his ball looking so beautiful that even her bossy sisters do not recognize her.
9) Good as gold
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Series
Whatever after volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The magic mirror has a crack and it sends Abby, Jonah, and Prince into the mixed up tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and they soon find that Goldy is in need of a lot of gold to get her father out of jail, and so they find themselves negotiating between the Bears, who want honey, and Rumpelstiltskin, who just wants a friend or two--but King Ned is just plain greedy and somehow the children and Goldy's father have to escape from the king's jail,...
10) Sleeping Beauty
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Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"The beautiful, clever, and kind Princess Redbud is cursed to slumber for a hundred years by a maleficent fairy. Can the spell be broken? One little fairy has a plan..."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher
Orchard Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
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In this original version of the traditional tale, the three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the somewhat bad wolf--who is really just very hungry and frustrated that the pizza parlor will not serve him.
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Series
Rainbow magic. The storybook fairies volume 01
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kirsty and Rachel are very excited to be going to the Wetherbury Storytelling Festival! But when mean Jack Frost steals the Storybook Fairies' magical objects, all the stories start getting mixed up. Can the girls help their fairy friends put things right?
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In this rhyming mash-up of many fairy tales, the reader is invited to follow Rosie down the many possible paths which may lead to a sleeping maiden, a hungry wolf, a girl locked in a tower, or a goose that lays golden eggs--but with some luck, and some smart choices, Rosie may save herself and her fellow fairy tale characters.
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Hamster princess volume 6
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English
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A little girl in a red cape asks for Princess Harriet Hamsterbone's help with a pack of weasel-wolves who want to eat her grandmother, but after meeting everyone, Harriet is not sure whom to trust.
15) Sugar and spice
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Whatever after volume 10
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English
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In this trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they have to deal with the witch and hope the portal will open so they can get home.
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Three members of Pig Force are on a top-secret mission to deliver the blueprints of a high-tech home base, where at last the Pig Force will be safe from the Wolf Force--but they are being pursued by Lana Wolf, crack pilot and her Wind Turbine Blaster whose powerful wind could knock Hog-25b Jet Fighter out of the sky before the brave members of Pig Force can reach headquarters with the plans.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Kaita cae en el cuento de hadas La Cenicienta y lo que encuentra allí no le causa ninguna gracia. ¿Por qué la madrastra y las hermanastras de Cenicienta la tratan tan mal? ¿Por qué su papá no la defiende? ¿Por qué Cenicienta se queda callada? ¿Por qué la siguen llamando Cenicienta si su verdadero nombre es Ela? No hace falta decir que Kaita tiene mucho que enseñarle a Ela antes de encontrar una salida de este cuento de hadas.
When Kaita...
18) Dino Duckling
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Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Hachette Children's Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A funny and touching celebration of difference, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. Dino Duckling can dive, swim and fish just like his duckling brothers and sisters. But when the time comes for the family fly south for the winter, Dino Duckling finds he really is different!
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Series
Horsetail hollow volume 1
Publisher
Disney / Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Maddie and her family move to a farm called Horsetail Hollow, and after she and her six-year-old sister find a wishing well, a magnificent white horse appears--but Maximus is a fairy tale horse, conjured out of Evie's book--so when the girls try to wish him back into his story they all end up in the fairy tale, trying to save Rapunzel.
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