Maguire, Gregory

Entwines the classic fairy tale of the little match girl with a story of Frederik, whose mother is seamstress to the Queen and who spends many evenings crafting a village in the attic of their small, cold home.

Liir, believed to be the son of Elphaba, the wicked witch of the West, has been spared from the destruction of Emerald City and nursed back to health at the Cloister of Saint Glinda; when he is grown, he sets out to find his supposed half-sister and fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess.

Retells the story of Cinderella from her stepsister's point of view.

Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand by Cesare Borgia, leaving her in the care of Borgia's sister Lucrezia, a decadent woman who orders the child killed.

The Cowardly Lion, in search of information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West, arrives at the home of the oracle Yackle, who wants some answers of her own before she dies.

The life of Elena Rudina, a poor teenager living in the Tsar-era Russian countryside, is transformed when a noble family with a daughter named Ekaterina arrives in town on their way to visit the Tsar, and the fates of Elena and Ekaterina become intertwined.

"Ada, a friend of Alice's mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend but arrives a moment too late-and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself"--Amazon.com.

Lester worries that his life is not adventurous enough for his visiting Auntie Jane, but the diner where they meet offers plenty of activity after all.

At a Vermont elementary school, April Fools' Day takes on a sinister tone when a teacher goes missing and several suspects emerge, among them the teacher's fiance and a missing mutant chick.