"A loving testament to the powerful magic of books and imagination." - Kirkus Reviews An important reminder of the centrality of stories in shaping our lives." - School Library Journal, starred review *"Highly recommended for readers young and old. Praise for Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers: From debut author Anna James comes a charming and exciting adventure about a bookish young heroine, a mysterious librarian, and a magical bookshop that will delight book lovers everywhere. When new secrets are uncovered, it's up to Tilly to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago. Tilly's new ability leads her to fun and exciting adventures, but danger may be lurking on the very next page. Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their books, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses. But when her favorite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, start showing up at the shop,Tilly's adventures become very real. Since her mother's disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly Pages has found comfort in the stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents' bookshop. Perfect for fans of Inkheart, The Land of Stories, and Story Thieves. Lemoncello series.Īn enchanting story about the magic of books and the power of imagination from debut author Anna James. If you love books, you're going to LOVE this book!"- Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Mr. Lemoncello would love to go bookwandering at Pages and Co.
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But it's not always clear who is on which side. A group of twenty-two teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?Īs Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. She knows she can't totally depend on Jack. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future-and they're still happening. 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In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia - decadent children of a wicked pope - no one can claim innocence for very long. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm - and the world comes to Montefiore. The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. Setting the story amid the cultural, political and artistic whirlwind of Renaissance Italy-and casting the notorious Lucrezia Borgia as the Evil Queen- Mirror Mirror will enthrall a wide array of book lovers ranging from adult fans of Harry Potter to readers of the sophisticated stories of Angela Carter. The acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless Snow White fairy tale. “Entertaining…profound….A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain.” - Christian Science Monitor The best thing is that it goes backwards and forwards in time with the Dad meeting himself all over the place in the past and in the future and in crazy wormholes. My face is NOT the book.Įveryone should read this book. Then I labeled it ‘Kindle’ because Mum asked what it was. But I can’t draw good faces so I drew a picture of the Kindle talking. Mum said I could stay on the iPad if I wanted to draw a picture of the writer reading the book. It was an ‘enhanced edition’ which means that the writer reads the book out loud to you while you read it! 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