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Ranking The Sisters Grimm
Read more: Ranking The Sisters GrimmI think most people know this series as it’s one of the more popular fractured fairytale series, and deservedly so, with Buckley’s sincere pathos, humor and adventurous escapades. But for those not in the know. Sabrina, and Daphne’s lives have turned for the worst in the past year, bouncing from awful foster situation to Dickinsinian…
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Ranking Sisters of the Quantock Hills
Read more: Ranking Sisters of the Quantock HillsIn the midst of of WW1, the four Purcell sisters come of age in the backyard of the local pastor’s family, the Mackenzies finding love, fufillment, and venturing out to the big world after their parents’ deaths. Frances’s Story: As the eldest, Frances is the most driven to provide for her sisters as well as…
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Ranking Fairytale Reform School
Read more: Ranking Fairytale Reform SchoolIn the village of Enchantsia, Gilly is often on the run from the Dwarf Police Squad for petty theft but what else can she do? Since the Fairy Godmother (yes, that one of Cinderella fame) stole her father’s patent for glass slippers, their family has a shoestring budget. She only steals from the rich but…
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Ranking A Tale of Magic trilogy
Read more: Ranking A Tale of Magic trilogyThe prequel to Colfer’s popular middle grade fantasy series, The Land of Stories, this trilogy takes us to the oppressive world of Brystal Evergreen. Chariot Hills and the rest of the Southern Kingdom are ruled by old white men and predictably, religion, and patriarchy reign surpreme. Women can’t read, gender roles are strictly enforced and…
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Ranking Tales of the Frog Princess
Read more: Ranking Tales of the Frog PrincessYep, the same tale that Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was loosely based on. Mainly the kissing the frog and turning into a frog herself part, everything else veers off into a totally original and delightful fractured fairytale about Princess Emma (short for Emerald) and her adventures in honing her magic that include breaking…
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Ranking The Princess Tales
Read more: Ranking The Princess TalesIt’s clear that Levine excells in her humorous fractured fairytales and the short stories of The Princess Tales are no exception. The Fairy’s Mistake: Maybe it’s cheating to put the first book as umber one but it’s such a fun introduction to the series and features one of my favorite obscure tales-Diamonds and Toads, and…
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Ranking the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
Read more: Ranking the Incorrigible Children of Ashton PlaceThis delightfully Snicket-esque series was fun to reread even as an adult as Penelope Lumely’s adventures with the feral Ashton children are filled with humor, wit, and mystery. The Unmapped Sea: The Incorrigible Children seem to have met their match with the savage Bubshkinov children. So with six wild kids Penelope definately has her hands…
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Ranking The Friendship Ring
Read more: Ranking The Friendship RingThis 1998-2000 series precisely disects, and relives to the messiness of friendship and adolescence. As the first protagonist introduces the series, seventh grade is where hormones hit you and you end up crying on the bathroom floor over nothing. Something Zoe Grandon thought she’d never do. But then again, she never thought she’d get a…
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Ranking Wondergirls
Read more: Ranking WondergirlsNo, no, not the Kpop group from the 2000s Wonder Girls. I’m talking about the early 2000s book series from Scholastic by Jillian Brooks. It’s generic as it’s all about four girls and their ups and downs in the ever complicated girl world of friendship but it’s a solid series I believe like a disney…
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Ranking Magic Attic Club Specials
Read more: Ranking Magic Attic Club SpecialsAnother series from a small publisher, also connected to a store catalogue of dolls, clothes and acessories, the Magic Attic Club follows four (later five) friends who befriend their neighbor, Ellie. She owns the titular attic where, when the girls put on the amazing outfits, they’re transported to out of this world adventures from going…
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