false <![CDATA[Into the Wild]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172374563m/170136.jpg 170136 3 Twelve-year-old Julie has grown up hearing about the dangerous world of fairy tales, &#147;The Wild,&#148; from which her mother, Rapunzel, escaped.<p> Now The Wild wants its characters back. Julie comes home from school to find her mother gone and a deep, dark forest swallowing her hometown. Julie must fight wicked witches, avoid glass slippers and fairy godmothers, fly griffins, and outwit ogres in order to rescue her mom and save her Massachusetts town from becoming a fairy-tale kingdom.<p> Sarah Beth Durst weaves a postmodern fairy tale that's fresh, funny, and sweetly poignant.<p> 2670258 21 6 2007 Into the Wild total:470|5:121|4:164|3:156|2:21|1:8| 470 1779 796 158 4 2 false false Wed Jul 25 15:21:43 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 20:53:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 29 12:41:08 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 20:32:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 07:32:35 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:25:08 -0800 2007
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I love fairytale-inspired books, some of my absolute favorites are Deerskin and At Spindle's End by Robin McKinley, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. What these writers have done is taken the heart of some of the olde...more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu Feb 19 11:05:42 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 11:21:30 -0800 2009 Julie picked up a scrap of shoelace. Once upon a time, it had been an entire sneaker.

Julie is the twelve-year-old daughter of Rapunzel 500 years after the fairy tale characters rebelled against the Wild Wood, escaped, and subdued it (th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 13:34:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 13:48:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 10:27:34 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 10:48:29 -0800 2009
The characters live in dread of being sucked back into their stories, of losing their free wil...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 03 09:46:03 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 09:46:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 13:06:35 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 10:30:14 -0700 2009 amazon.com "People who bought x book also purchased..." (of course, I don't remember the book I was actually looking at initially). They're handy, because sometimes there are some nifty looking books I otherwise wouldn't have known about. Sure enough, this one wa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 19:53:51 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 12:27:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Feb 04 18:05:01 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 21:51:17 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 19:19:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 07:47:41 -0700 2009
During the first couple of chapters, I thought this book was a bust. I wondered how it made the Sunshine State list at all. But then, I was reminded of why readers should not only be wary of judging books by covers but also of judging books by the how the...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=170136