Finding the Fantastic Story

All you need to know about A TALE OF MAGIC Author : Chris Colfer Note: The Tale of Magic series is a prequel to the Land of Stories series, and must be read after the Land of Stories. Fourteen year old Brystal Evergreen is a young girl living in the Southern Kingdom, where magic is outlawed and those who practice magic are punished with death.  In the Southern Kingdom, women are also stripped of all rights, including the right to work and even the right to read. Due to both her father and her brothers being highly respected Justices, this law was enforced rather rigidly in Brystal's household. Despite the odds, Brystal is a voracious reader and never really fits-in at her school where young girls are taught "How to be a Proper Women". When her family finds out she had been reading books against the law, Brystal starts getting desperate for new books to read. Finally, she finds the perfect solution to her problem and decides to work as a maid at the library, while telling ...

All you need to know about THE LAND OF STORIES  Author : Chris Colfer If not for their uncanny resemblance to each other, people would find it very hard to believe that Alex and Conner Bailey are twins. They are polar opposites of each other. Alex is the perfect student, studious and bookish, and not very popular due to her being a model student in every teacher's eyes. Conner, on the other hand, is every teacher's waking nightmare, frequenter of detentions and is known to regularly doze off during class hours. But ever since their father passed away in a car accident more than a year ago, the life of the twins had taken a turn for the worse, with their mother having to work overtime to provide for the family and the abrupt changes in their lives. Yup, story just starts and we already find out that our main characters desperately need therapy. (Don't worry, it gets better.) Then, as their grandmother gifts them her storybook collection of fairy tales on their twelfth birthd...