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I Hate To Read!

author: Marshall, Rita
As a third-grader who hates to read unwillingly looks at a book, the characters come alive and interest him so much that he really begins to care about them, and begins turning the pages.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: books and reading, characters in literature [X], characters and characteristics in literature [X]

Jack's Tale

author: Walsh, Ellen Stoll
An author begins to write a fairy tale and finds that the main character, Jack, must be convinced to participate in the story and help rescue the princess.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fairy tales, characters in literature [X], characters and characteristics in literature [X]

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Book?

author: Child, Lauren
A boy who loves books but has not always treated them well falls asleep and finds himself in his book of fairy tales, where his interaction with everyone from Goldilocks to Cinderella wreaks havoc.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 40
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: books and reading, characters in literature [X], humorous stories, characters and characteristics in literature [X]

What Really Happened To Humpty?

author: Ransom, Jeanie Franz
Detective Joe Dumpty rushes to investigate the mysterious circumstances under which his older brother, Humpty, fell from a wall on his first day as captain of the new Neighborhood Watch program.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550

Fantasy Baseball

author: Gratz, Alan
A twelve-year-old boy wakes up in Ever After, where he is recruited by Dorothy to play first base for the Oz Cyclones in the Ever After Baseball Tournament.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: baseball, characters and characteristics in literature [X], characters in literature [X]

Storybound

author: Burt, Marissa
Shy, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is suddenly transported by a mysterious book into the Land of Story, where characters from books hope to be cast into a tale of their own, and Una attends the Perrault Academy while trying to discover why she is there.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: books and reading, characters and characteristics in literature [X], characters in literature [X], adventure and adventurers, fantasy fiction, adventure fiction

Fairytale News

author: Hawkins, Colin
The events of several familiar fairy tales get mixed up in the story of Jack, who takes a job delivering newspapers, until he finds his fortune at the top of a magic beanstalk.
398.2
year: 2004
copies: 30
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 730
subjects: toy and movable books, characters in literature [X], newspapers, characters and characteristics in literature [X]

Falling For Rapunzel

author: Wilcox, Leah
A prince tries to get Rapunzel to throw down her hair so he can rescue her, but she mishears him and throws down random objects from her room instead.
398.2
year: 2005
copies: 53
call number/section: 398.2
lexile:
subjects: characters and characteristics in literature [X], characters in literature [X], humorous stories, stories in rhyme

The Cheese

author: Palatini, Margie
After they all agree to ignore the story of "The Farmer in the Dell," the rat, cat, dog, child, farmer, and his wife have a party featuring the tempting hunk of cheese.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 52
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490
subjects: nursery rhymes, characters and characteristics in literature [X], characters in literature [X], humorous stories

The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster

author: Conway, David
Little Miss Muffet is bored being in the same old nursery rhyme, so she sets off to explore the other pages of the nursery rhyme book to see what the other characters are up to.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: boredom, characters and characteristics in literature [X], characters in literature [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction

Detective Blue

author: Metzger, Steve
Little Boy Blue grows up to be a top-notch detective and his latest case has him searching for Miss Muffet with the help of their nursery rhyme friends.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 300
subjects: detectives, characters and characteristics in literature [X], characters in literature [X], mystery and detective stories

The Eensy Weensy Spider Freaks Out!

author: Cummings, Troy
Frightened after the scary waterspout incident, the Eensy Weensy Spider needs some encouragement from her friend the ladybug before she will try climbing again.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 420
subjects: characters and characteristics in literature [X], spiders, self-confidence, humorous fiction, characters in literature [X], humorous fiction

Humpty Dumpty Egg-splodes

author: O'malley, Kevin
An enormous Humpty Dumpty returns to Mother Goose Land determined to get revenge on the nursery rhyme characters he blames for letting him fall.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 250
subjects: nursery rhymes, characters in literature [X], characters and characteristics in literature [X]

Isabella, Star Of The Story

author: Fosberry, Jennifer
While visiting the library, Isabella, a purple-haired girl who loves books, pretends to be her favorite children's book characters.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: imagination, books and reading, characters and characteristics in literature [X], libraries, characters in literature [X], girls, picture books

The Annotated Alice

author: Carroll, Lewis
Combines Lewis Carroll authority Martin Gardner's 1959 edition of "The Annotated Alice"; his 1990 sequel "More Annotated Alice"; and additional discoveries about the texts of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and "Through the Looking-Glass"; and includes classic illustrations by John Tenniel.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: carroll, lewis, fantasy fiction, english, alice (fictitious character : carroll), fantasy, alice, characters and characteristics in literature [X], fantasy fiction, english fiction, characters in literature [X]

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