rex1030

11 years ago

i loved the authors spoken words and how they made you feel inside

felicisowl

11 years ago

"My whole body tenses. I do not like hissing. Especially hissing mirrors." There are a lot of other things Abby doesn't like - dangerous things like rock climbing, freeze tag, and smushing bananas on peanut butter sandwiches. But most of all, she doesn't like Smithville - she just wishes she could move back to her old town, Chicago, with her nana. Worst of all, there's a frightening mirror in the basement that is EXTREMELY weird, suspicious, and most of all, creepy. Late at night her little brother Jonah decides to play Flying Crocodiles in the basement, and of course, Abby has to take care and supervise her little brother because she is the responsible, older sister. Even if it is in the basement - with the creepy mirror. Her brother notices the mirror right away, of course, because he has an eye for adventure, and knocks on it. Once, twice, and then three times because three times is the charm, isn't it? NOT - the creepy mirror sucks up both Abby and Jonah and land them in a creepy forest, apparently, very far away from Smithville. Abby and Jonah decide to follow a mysterious, creepy, evil-looking old lady carrying a basket so that they can ask for directions, but the lady seems strangely preoccupied and ignores them. She arrives at this cottage and offers an apple to a girl that's older than Abby with pale, snow-white skin, black ivory hair, and blood-red lips. Wait just a second - snow-white skin, black ivory hair, and blood-red lips? It's Snow White? Okay, Abby and Jonah are another dimension away from home. Since they've figured at least THAT out, they decide to save the story (because they already know the lady's trying to poison Snow White) by jumping in the way and ruining the evil plan. The lady screams and cries vengeance, and stomps away. Hurray! They've saved the story - oh no. If Snow White isn't poisoned, she won't be in a coffin. If Snow White isn't in a coffin, the prince won't ride by and think she's dead and kiss her to wake her. She won't get her happy ending! Oops. Now since they started this whole mess, they have to end it. This is very very bad - especially since the Evil Queen (aka Evil Evelyn, because Evelyn's her real name and obviously she is very evil) is now trying to poison Snow White plus Abby and Jonah too (since they foiled her plan earlier, she is out for revenge.) There are other methods the Evil Queen uses, like poisoned cookies and a hammer - I'll leave it at that. Now they try a different approach - just get the Prince to kiss Snow White and all will be solved! Abby and Jonah tried to get Snow to lie in the coffin so that when the Prince came by on his horse on his way to the Evil Queen's castle (they sent a fake letter from the Evil Queen, saying to come to her castle) he would see her, fall in love, and then kiss her! Yay! It turns out that Snow is pretty much a little afraid of everything and was afraid of the Prince kissing her, so she jumped out of the coffin, ruining her chance at a happy ending. Well, Abby and Jonah aren't done yet. Their final attempt is to sneak into Evil Evelyn's castle and do many things - (1) she has a magic mirror that can send Abby and Jonah home (2) They find out the prince is being held hostage there, so they need to rescue him (3) After the prince is freed, overthrow Evil Evelyn and get the prince to kiss Snow. I guess you know that it doesn't go exactly to plan. Instead a whirlwind of misfortune happens - ending with an arrow shot by Evil Evelyn, aimed at Snow White. Is this their final ending? Did Abby and Jonah change Snow White instead of the worse for the better? Will Snow die or will a final sacrifice be made? Read this book to find out! This book is complicated to explain.. There are so many modern fairy-tale versions out there, and this one didn't stand out that much to me at first. But then I got hooked by the author's style of writing, which definitely was extremely quirky and very fun to read. I started loving the characters, particularly Abby, who seemed like my doppelganger, and Jonah, who was adorable - and way cuter than my younger brother :P The characters seemed to really, pop out of the pages with their sibling-y dialogue. The opening paragraph pretty much would hook any young teen reader in, it made me giggle XD The characters (some) are good role models.. It is a nice twist on the fairy tale genre. It kind of reminded me of the Princess Diaries from Meg Cabot (in a good way :P) Overall, this is a charming, sweet, quaint, but wacky and totally adorable book! I recommend it to third grade to sixth grade. I don't really do stars but I rated it 4 stars because well, some parts were just too immature and it was a really short read. I would have liked more development with the story but hey, this probably wasn't written for critical reviewers like me XD Have fun with this book, because it's probably one young girls will keep on their bookshelf for many years :D

samanthamc

11 years ago

It looks good.Reading and learning from abbey and her brother boosted my intrest in reading these books.You all should read book one through four like Im trying to do.

ciara

11 years ago

I loved the book shes a really good athour

crose2424

11 years ago

good book and the rest are good to

swordfight

11 years ago

This book is really good

sabrina101

11 years ago

I really like this book i recommend this book to 8 and up. My best friend nicole and casey recommended this book. Now i can not put it down its really good.

swordfight

11 years ago

I loved it

diamondkid

11 years ago

Great Book!!!

crazyberry

11 years ago

i chose this for a book report and after i read this all i could say was wow and amazing