Gregory Maguire
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an animal rights activist striving to avenge her dear sister's death.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Gregory Maguire, critically acclaimed author of Wicked, returns with his eagerly anticipated second novel. Using a dazzling reincarnation of the Cinderella story set in 17th century Holland, Maguire deftly weaves together stories of inner and outer beauty. Iris is a plain but intelligent young girl. Forced to flee England with her recently widowed mother, Margarethe, and her older sister, she finds herself swept into a life that becomes a legend....
5) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of two girls collide.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story of the famous Nutcracker with the life of the mysterious toy maker named Drosselmeier who carves him."--Amazon.com.
7) After Alice
Author
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? Ada, a friend of Alice's mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late--and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Series
Another day volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations, maps on endpapers ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.
But “out of Oz” isn’t “gone for good.” Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives.
Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from...
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
xix, 568 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Lir's daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz.
12) A lion among men
Author
Series
Wicked years volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xviii, 312 p. : ill, geneal. tables, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
14) Wicked
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2025
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship...