Title: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Author: Written by Christopher Healy, Illustrated by Tod Harris
Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Middle Grade
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Publication Date: May 2012
Hardcover: 293 Pages (US)
nter a world where everything, even our classic fairy tales, is not at [...]
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that our guest authors are given free rein so they can go wild and write about anything they want: their new book, series or career as a [...]
Author: Delia Sherman
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Publication date: August 2006
Paperback 256 pages
A determined heroine, a quest adventure galore!
Neef is a changeling, a human baby stolen by fairies and replaced with one of their own. She lives [...]
Title: Ash Mistry and the Savage Fortress
Author: Sarwat Chadda
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade/Young Adult, PoC
Publisher: Harper Collins Children / Arthur A Levine
Publication date: March 1 2012 / October 2012
Paperback: 400 pages
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Genre: Contemporary, Horror, Middle Grade
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books
Publication date: First published 2001
Paperback: 154 pages
At first, Jamie isn’t too worried about the bad dreams he’s been having since coming to his aunt’s house. Most people awoken in the middle [...]
Author: Ellen Potter
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Publication date: February 28 2012
Hardcover: 192 pages
Hiding is Roo Fanshaw’s special skill. Living in a frighteningly unstable family, she often needs to disappear at a moment’s notice. When her parents [...]
Author: R.J. Palacio
Genre: Contemporary, Middle Grade
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (US) / Bodley Head (UK)
Publication date: February 14 2012 / March 1 2012
Hardcover: 320 pages
I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.
August (Auggie) Pullman was [...]
Title: Hugo
The Invention of Hugo Cabret written by Brian Selznick; Published by Scholastic in 2007
Movie directed by Martin Scorsese; Starring, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, and Jude Law. Released in 2011
Hugo is [...]
Author: Lauren Oliver
Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publication date: October 4th 2011
Hardcover: 307 pages
We meet Liesl the night after the day her young father has died. That same day she is visited by a ghost, Po, an [...]
Author: Adam Gidwitz
Genre: Horror, Fairy Tale Retellings, Middle Grade
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Publication Date: October 2010
Hardcover: 251 pages
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. [...]
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