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Gr 5-8 A 12-year-old girl is running through the woods with no memory of who she is or why she is running. Her identity is up for speculation throughout the book: Is she a princess? An animal turned into a human? The missing daughter of a couple in the village? All of these possibilities seem to revolve around an old witch who escaped the village mob with a baby the same day the girl appeared in the woods. The woman and her husband ar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A tense prologue in which a witch, stolen baby in tow, eludes an angry, torch-wielding mob transitions to a scene of a girl running through the woods. The intriguing thing about this girl is that readers know more about her than she knows about herself. "The simplest way to begin is to start at the ending: The girl's name was Isabelle." Yet Vande Velde's twelve-y...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twelve-year-old Isabelle has no memories of her past. Locals suspect she's the same girl who was abducted six years earli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Stolen reads like the best of fairy tales, with fresh takes on many of the genre’s traditional elements—a lost child, a witch, a cruel family member. But the reason the novel so engages the reader is Vivian Van...Log In or Sign Up to Read More