Sarah Mlynowski
1) Cold as ice
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On their sixth trip through the magic mirror, Abby and Jonah find themselves in the story of the Snow Queen, a troubled character who chose power over family and friendship, and Abby has to free the children the Queen has under her spell--with the help of her new friend, a talking reindeer called Ralph, and a strange girl named Sharon.
2) Good as gold
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 14
Lexile measure
HL 410L
Language
English
Description
The magic mirror has a crack and it sends Abby, Jonah, and Prince into the mixed up tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They soon find that Goldy is in need of a lot of gold to get her father out of jail, and so they find themselves negotiating between the Bears, who want honey, and Rumpelstiltskin, who just wants a friend or two. But King Ned is just plain greedy and somehow the children and Goldy's father have to escape from the king's jail,...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's never easy when your magic goes wonky. For Nory, this means that instead of being able to turn into a dragon or a kitten, she turns into both of them at the same time -- a dritten. For Elliott, the simple act of conjuring fire from his fingertips turns into a fully frozen failure. For Andres, wonky magic means he's always floating in the air, bouncing off the walls, or sitting on the ceiling. For Bax, a bad moment of magic will turn him into...
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Dory and her friends from Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class set off on an overnight school field trip to Dragon Haven to see, and learn how to care for, dragons--unfortunately there are other students with regular magic there as well, so it is not long before the trouble starts.
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 5
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
When Willa's upside-down magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Nory and the kids in Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class always have umbrellas nearby, just in case. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. And yet the more she rains, the worse she feels...and the worse she feels, the more she rains. All the storminess is threatening to flood the UDM friendships. Will they drown in misery? Or can they use...
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 13
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"My brother Jonah's dream has come true. We have FINALLY landed in his favorite fairy tale: Jack and the Beanstalk! It's a lot of fun meeting Jack. But then we accidentally mess up his story, which means Jack can't climb up the magic beanstalk to find the giant's riches. It's time to take matters into our own hands. Now we have to: - Make a deal with a sneaky trader - Climb a beanstalk into the sky - Try not to get eaten by a giant - Find the goose...
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Marigold Ramos thinks that her magical ability to make things small will come in handy as she and her friends protest the new rule banning their toy dragons from school, until her magic gets out of control and starts shrinking her friends.
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume Book 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Nory, Bax, and their friends are in a special class at Dunwiddle Magic School, a class for children whose magic is unpredictable--and while Nory is finding an outlet for her dritten-self (a combination of a kitten and dragon), in the kittenball team, Bax is worried because all he can do is turn into a rock, and nobody knows why.
9) Seeing red
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 12
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Abby tries to use the magic mirror to get to her friend's house, but she ends up with her brother in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood; where, having accidently knocked out the Huntsman, they set out to save Red (named Lali) and her rather unpleasant grandmother themselves--but end up having to save the wolf (who actually seems a lot nicer then Lali's grandmother), and discovering a surprising secret about their own Nana.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarpeCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Sam's summer isn't off to a great start. Her boyfriend, Eli, ditched her for a European backpacking trip and now she's a counselor at Camp Blue Springs: the summer camp her eleven-year-old self swore never to return to. Sam expects the next seven weeks to be a total disaster. That is, until she meets Gavin, the camp's sailing instructor, who turns her expectations upside down. Gavin may have gotten the job just for his abs. Or that...
11) Best wishes
Author
Series
Best wishes volume 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Description
After her best friend ditches her, fifth-grader Becca, feeling devastated and alone, yearns for people to like her, so when a magical bracelet grants her wish to have loads of friends, she soon discovers having a dream come true is not as simple as it seems.
12) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 7
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When a flood forces Nory and her best friends to evacuate Dunwiddle and relocate to prestigious Sage Academy, the upside-down magic students have a hard time fitting in.
13) Showing off
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dunwiddle Magic School (fifth to eighth grade) is intended for children whose magic is "upside-down" like Dory (who turns into a combination of a kitten and dragon) and Pepper (whose uncontrollable "fiercing" terrifies everyone around her)--so the Show Off, where fifth grade students are supposed to showcase their skills, does not really seem like a good idea.
14) Dream on
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
440L
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this third adventure, Abby, her brother Jonah, and her friend Robin get sucked into the magic mirror and end up in the story of Sleeping Beauty, but when Robin pricks her finger and uses up the sleeping spell, Abby has to come up with a clever solution and a new happily-ever-after.
15) Fairest of all
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
400L
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition, Special edition.
Lexile measure
410L
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Instead of the usual fairy tale, Abby finds herself in the middle of a book, Alice in Wonderland, with two of her friends, plus bossy Penny (who is definitely not a friend), and in order to get back to reality she must solve a curious riddle, find one of her friends who is missing, and somehow avoid getting her head cut off by the Red Queen--and figure out what she is going to tell the other girls if they ever get out of Wonderland.
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abby is feeling slighted by not being chosen festival leader at school, and her brother Jonah thinks that a trip through the magic mirror is just what she needs--but when they find themselves in a strange version of the Princess and the pea, and Abby is tagged as the princess, who will be the next ruler of the Kingdom of Bog (which is very damp and infested with alligators), she is not so much complimented as desperate to find an alternate princess,...
18) Abby in Oz
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abby, her two friends Robin and Frankie, and the annoying Penny, are in their treehouse arguing about what to do for their special school project when a tornado appears out of nowhere, scoops up the treehouse, and transports them all to the land of Oz, where they are soon confronted by Wicked Witch of the East (who is very much alive, and rather angry), and must save a story that is going completely sideways--all because of the evil Gluck.
19) Just dance
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the magic mirror sends Abby and Jonah into the story of The Twelve Dancing Princesses to retrieve the crown ruby from the Kingdom of Douze, they follow the twelve sisters to the underground Dance Resistance Party where Abby learns she is not really a terrible dancer.
20) Beauty queen
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 7
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
Abby's first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast's roses--her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents miss them.