![]() ![]() ![]() The place even has one of Marie Antoinette's wigs! First-person narrator Elizabeth finds herself crushing on a co-worker, Marc, who's a basketball star at her school tentatively making friends with a girl called Anjali and getting irritated by the sarcastic Aaron.Įlizabeth also learns about Special Collections, most notably the Grimm Collection, which contains things like the two dozen shoes worn out by the twelve dancing princesses, the magic mirror from Snow White (which has a mean streak!), and seven-league boots. Mauskopf, recommends her for a job as a page at the New-York Circulating Material Repository.Īfter an odd test at the repository involving different ways of sorting buttons, Elizabeth winds up working in a "library" that lends objects, things like costumes and vases and antique weapons. Then Elizabeth writes a paper on the Brothers Grimm for her history class and her history teacher, Mr. We first meet eighth grader Elizabeth Rew and discover that she hasn't made any friends at her snobby new private school, while at home she has to deal with a mildly evil stepmother-and-two-stepsisters scenario. Polly Shulman takes a great premise and develops it to a fare-thee-well in this delightful new book aimed at tweens. Then again, by the time I was done reading, I wanted it to be a series! I was surprised to find this book shelved with middle grade series in the bookstore, as The Grimm Legacy gives no particular indication that it's the first in a series. ![]()
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