The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship-and a cheeky sense of humor-he just might triumph in the end.Ī Texas Bluebonnet finalist and winner of the ILA award for middle grade fiction, Rump is perfect for fans of Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted or Adam Gidwitz's A Tale Dark and Grimm. To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse.
His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke.
New York Times Bestselling author Liesl Shurtliff "spins words into gold. This funny fractured fairy tale goes behind the scenes of Rumpelstiltskin.
0 kommentar(er)
