Vivian Vande Velde
1) Smart dog
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab.
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Language
English
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Description
With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers, and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows of the glasses' powers and will do anything they can to get them. Wendy isn't as blind as a bat-there are bats who can see better than she can. That's why, when her new glasses break, she's all too happy to wear the dorky sunglasses she found on her lawn. Oddly enough, they match her prescription...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Description
A young princess is tasked with rescuing a spoiled prince—if she really wants to—in this fantasy adventure by the author of Dragon Bait.
Once upon a time there lived a very nice but very plain young princess named Jennifer. And she had the bad luck to fall in love with the very handsome but very conceited prince Alexander. The prince had a gift for offending everyone he met, including one day an evil witch, who cast a deep spell...
Once upon a time there lived a very nice but very plain young princess named Jennifer. And she had the bad luck to fall in love with the very handsome but very conceited prince Alexander. The prince had a gift for offending everyone he met, including one day an evil witch, who cast a deep spell...
10) Frogged
Author
Language
English
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Description
When almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is turned into a frog, she puts into practice lessons from the book, The Art of Being a Princess, as she tries to become her less-than-perfect self again.
11) Stolen
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
158 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.
13) Cloaked in red
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.
14) Witch's wishes
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
91 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween, six-year-old Sarah encounters a witch who repays her kindness by making her magic wand real for the night, resulting in a series of wishes come true that the witch then has to fix.
16) 23 minutes
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, misfit 15-year-old Zoe, a girl with supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to 10 tries, attempts to stop the crime, but only makes things worse with each successive effort.