Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores.

Story Thieves

This clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation ("Kirkus Reviews," starred review) is the first in the "New York Times" bestselling series from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world s homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character. Bethany can t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he ll never say a word. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot s final ("very" final) adventure."

Every ending is a beginning someone else will read. The Unwriter is heading for the origin of story itself. Erase the first tale, and every book ever written falls with it. In the grand finale, Ava, Tomás, Cassie, and Rook must finally answer the question that has haunted them for seven books: why do humans tell stories? And Tomás, the boy who couldn't read, picks up the Pen.

The Story of Stories

Where every word weighs a thousand. In the Poetry realm, metaphors are real: if a poem says the road is a ribbon, the road IS a ribbon. Now the Unwriter is stripping language flat and gray. Saving it falls to the unlikeliest hero of all: Tomás, the boy who struggles to read, whose dyslexic ear hears the music in words that no one else can hear.

The World in Verse

The bravest stories have no magic at all. No portals. No dragons. No magic at all. Just a kid caring for a sick mother, a girl walking home, a boy learning to read. The Unwriter says these ordinary stories aren't worth saving. To protect the books that show kids their own reflection, Ava and her friends must fight with no magic to hide behind, only the truth.

The Real World

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