What-the-Dickens

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• What-the-Dickens By Gregory Maguire

  Call them tooth fairies, call them skibbereen. Whatever you call them, be prepared to realize they are real or are they? That conundrum is at the heart of this cleverly constructed story-within-a-story by Gregory Maguire, whose novels Wicked and Conf ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

• WHAT-THE-DICKENS: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire

  by Gregory Maguire Candlewick Press Hardcover: 0763629618 Paperback: 9780763641474 Ages 10-13 304 pages Most grownups seem to think that Gregory Maguire simply rocketed into fame (and, indirectly, onto Broadway) when WICKED, his first novel for adult ... (read full critics)

  kidsreads published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

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  On the darkest night, amidst a terrifying storm, Dinah's parents go missing. While anxious Dinah and her brother and sister worry and huddle for warmth, their cousin Gage tells them an unlikely story- about tooth fairies, known as skibbereen, who are living in warring colonies right in the neighborh ... (continue)

  On the darkest night, amidst a terrifying storm, Dinah's parents go missing. While anxious Dinah and her brother and sister worry and huddle for warmth, their cousin Gage tells them an unlikely story- about tooth fairies, known as skibbereen, who are living in warring colonies right in the neighborhood.
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  I picked this up because I loved "Wicked", and I was not disappointed. Very fun story line, and extremely imaginative. The end made me a bit irritated, but only because I had to use my own imagination a bit. LOL

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  Dark, slightly twisted and immensely entertaining!

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• English Books
• Hardcover 304 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0763629618
• ISBN-13: 9780763629618
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Pub date: Sep 11, 2007
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback and Others

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