Gregory Maguire
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after the death of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, a young man named Liir, rumored to be Elphaba's son, is discovered in the ruins of Emerald City and revived by the mysterious foundling Candle.
4) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1905 czarist Russia, an impoverished country girl Elena and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is this new land a place where magics really happen?
From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale.
In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats....
We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the...
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Lir's daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz.
Author
Series
Another day volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the...
Author
Series
Another day volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Oracle of Maracoor, the second in the trilogy called Another Day, continues the story of Elphaba's green-skinned granddaughter, Rain. That strange land, Maracoor--across the ocean from Oz--is beset by an invading army. In the mayhem, Rain and Cossy, a child felon, break out of prison. Helped by a few flying monkeys, they struggle to escape the city before it falls under siege. Their arresting officer, Lucikles, also retreats with his family to...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the...
12) Lost
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper, and finds herself the object of spectral phenomena as she arrives in London to find her friend John missing under mysterious circumstances.
13) A lion among men
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this third novel of the "New York Times"-bestselling series, civil war looms in Oz, and an ancient oracle named Yackle prepares for death. But before she can die, the Cowardly Lion arrives seeking knowledge about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West--the woman who had defended him when he was a cub.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
Author
Series
Another day volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko--the granddaughter of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West--has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz. Though the Grimmerie, which she had cast into the sea, retains its arcane power over her, the lover she left behind in Oz proves no less haunting....
16) The good liar
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.
Author
Series
Hamlet chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A giant spider and several other odd creatures from the earlier books in the Hamlet Chronicles return as the small Vermont town celebrates a grammar school graduation, Miss Earth's wedding, and the Fourth of July.
19) Wicked
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will by a writer of children's books. It tells the story of Elphaba before she became the Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. The novel traces her career as nun, nurse, pro-democracy activist and animal rights defender.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of the Wicked Years series presents a visual tribute to the art of Maurice Sendak, in a book that examines Sendak's aesthetic influences from William Blake to Walt Disney; looks at recurring motifs in his work, as well as his profound understanding of the imaginations and emotions of children; and more.