"Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends" by Shannon Hale

What if you knew from birth that your destiny was already set in stone? What if you knew you would be amazing and powerful and evil?

Raven Queen knows exactly how her life will be once she signs The Storybook of Legends. She will follow in her mother's footsteps and become the Evil Queen who gives Snow White the poisoned apple. The thing is Raven just doesn't want to be evil. So what happens if Raven doesn't sign the book? Will she really cease to exist? Headmaster Grimm certainly thinks so.

"Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends" written by Shannon Hale is the first in a new series for middle grade readers. The books will be companions for the dolls and webisodes created by Mattel. The great thing is that the book stands on its own. I will be reading the next one that comes out in March 2014!

P.S. : Shannon Hale is awesome! Most of her books are in the teen section but she has lots of new stuff coming out in 2014. While you wait check out these graphics.

"Calamity Jack" An  interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.  

"Rapunzel's Revenge" Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls and dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth.  In this Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel.
 


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