Fortunately, Lena has friends down in the Cursed City who understand that looking different doesn’t make her less of a giant.
But hiding who she is has always felt wrong, even though she knows the other giants might not accept her. Lena has kept the fact that she’s a tiny giant secret, using magic to grow when out in the giant village. Storybook characters collide in this first book in a new trilogy of twisted fairy tales from New York Times bestselling author James Riley, set in the world of his popular Half Upon a Time series-perfect for fans of Fablehaven and Chris Colfer’s A Tale of Magic series!įive and a half feet might seem pretty tall for a twelve-year-old, but it’s not when your parents are giants. He is the author of Half Upon a Time, Twice Upon a Time, and Once Upon the End as well as the Story Thieves series.Twisted Fairy Tale What really happened when her fictional father disappeared years ago? Who is Nobody, and why is he writing these Story Thieves books? And what kind of supervillain name is The Rotten Banana? It all comes back to Bethany’s own secret origins. The one hero who might have stopped all of this, Doc Twilight, has been imprisoned by the Dark.īut who is Doc Twilight really? And how can Bethany and Owen defeat the Dark without superpowers of their own? They’ll definitely need the help of some old friends and new allies to bring the light back to Jupiter City, and find out the truth behind the Dark.
Even the villains are terrified of the Dark’s shadows, and most of the heroes have either disappeared or been lost to mind control. Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there’s nothing left but the Dark. But they didn’t make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world. Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good.
(presentation at 4:00)īethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves-which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. James Riley visits Hicklebee's with the third book in his Story Thieves series, Secret Origins.
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