Excerpts

In the darkness, the heart of the fairy tale waited...

Julie picked up a scrap of shoelace. Once upon a time, it had been an entire sneaker. "Look what you did," she said, wiggling it under her bed. Snapping out a green vine, the Wild snatched the lace...

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Three blind and tail-less mice catapulted through the cat door, skidded over the linoleum kitchen floor, and collapsed in a furry heap at Julie’s feet.

"Uh, hi," Julie said to the mice.

The cat door bashed open again as Julie’s brother, Puss-in-Boots, launched himself inside...

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