Gregory Maguire
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this captivating New York Times bestseller, beloved author Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz and introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape—but what of her powers? In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?
...2) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An improverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina 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
Publisher
Regan
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Gregory Maguire, 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: Mirror Mirror. Setting his story amid the cultural, political and artistic whirlwind of Renaissance Italy-and casting the notorious Lucrezia Borgia as the Evil Queen-Maguire and Mirror Mirror will enthrall a wide array of book lovers...
Author
Publisher
Regan
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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
Series
Wicked years volume 1
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
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.