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.

After her father's death, ten-year-old Nan Sparrow is forced to work as an assistant to a chimney sweep in nineteenth-century England. One day, she drops her favorite possession in a fireplace and accidentally creates a golem made of soot and ash. Together the two outcasts try to carve out a new life.

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong reads his dead best friend's journal, which allows him to see folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit. When a character from the Anansi story steals the journal, Tristan tries to retrieve it, but accidentally rips open a hole into Alke, where African American folk characters are gods. Tristan learns that his actions have led to the suffering of the people of Alke, and in order to get back home and save his friends, Tristan,...

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.