Multicultural Chapter Book Fairy Tales & More

After being sold as a bride to a wealthy family that treats her poorly, eleven-year-old Jing, with the help of her animal friends, runs away.

Mirka Hirschberg, a strong-willed eleven-year-old Jewish girl, wants only to fight dragons but must first obtain a sword. She accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch that could bring her a dragon-slaying sword, but first she has to find and outwit the giant troll who's got it. Includes sketchbook designs for the troll.

In this version of Cinderella set in ancient Korea, Pear Blossom, a stepchild, eventually comes to be chosen by the magistrate to be his wife.

Maddie's birthday party has an Aladdin theme, but when her stepbrother's separate birthday gets ruined, and he does not get the hoverboard he craves, he deliberately alters the Aladdin story, sucking both of them into the world of the fairy tale--and while he gets to be Aladdin and find the genie, Maddie is stuck as a camel.

To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.

In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...

When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.