A.R. Book Level: 4.8
A.R. Points: 9.0
Pages: 312
I
just loved this. It’s a book about a
world of magic and fairy tales hidden within the real one, but it’s also about
the tricky part of growing up where childhood and adolescence start to overlap
and friendships are tested. Hazel and
Jack had always been best friends, but after a bizarre accident on the
playground, Jack stops being friends with Hazel and, within a few days,
disappears. When Hazel learns that Jack
went off into enchanted woods, she goes in to find him, but she doesn’t know if
he’ll even want to be friends when she gets to him. This is a modern spin on Hans Christian
Andersen’s classic fairy tale “The Snow Queen” and a must-read for fans of
Frances O’Roark Dowell’s Falling In.