Unbirthday : a twisted tale

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Title:

Unbirthday : a twisted tale

Author:

Braswell, Liz, author.

Series:

Twisted tale.

Summary:

"Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice, now eighteen, tries to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule before the End of Time, and save her own world as well as Wonderland."

Audience:

Ages 12-18. Disney Hyperion.

Grades 10-12. Disney Hyperion.

Physical Description:

504 pages ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Subject Term:

Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) -- Fiction.

Queens -- Fiction.

Imaginary places -- Fiction.

Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Disney Hyperion,

Publication Date:

2020

ISBN:

9781484781319

9781368065818

Publication Information:

Los Angeles : Disney Hyperion, 2020.

Call Number:

YA BRASWELL

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The 10th installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?

Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She'd rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian's lively salon, ignoring her sister's wishes that she stop all that "nonsense" and become a "respectable" member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao's teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She's also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she's curious , of course, not because he was sweet and charming.
But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects--the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. There's something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all--a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice's help. Mary Ann .

Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. But will she able to do so . . . before the End of Time?

For more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series:
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell Once Upon a Dream by Liz Braswell As Old as Time by Liz Braswell Reflection by Elizabeth Lim Part of Your World by Liz Braswell Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita Concel, Don't Feel by Jen Calonita Straight On Till Morning by Liz Braswell So This is Love by Elizabeth Lim Go the Distance by Jen Calonita What Once Was Mine by Liz Braswell

Author Notes

Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales, dreaming, and going on adventures in the woods with her cat. After majoring in Egyptology at Brown University (and yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs) she promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. Finally Liz caved in to fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by the Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. She is also the author of Stuffed and several other Twisted Tales, including A Whole New World , Once Upon a Dream , As Old as Time , and Part of Your World . She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a parttime dog, three fish, and five coffee trees--one of which has already produced a rather tolerable espresso. You can email her at me@lizbraswell.com or tweet @ LizBraswell or instagram @lizbraswell.

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 9 Up--Braswell puts a darker spin on Disney's Alice In Wonderland. Alice is now 18, an adventurous and aspiring photographer. As she takes her photos, some familiar Wonderland faces appear, old friends beckoning her to help them. Alice must navigate both family drama and a burning desire to return to Wonderland through her sister's annoying desires for marriage and expectations to become a proper lady in society. Along the way, Alice meets a misunderstood young lawyer, who is outside the proper social circle, just as she is. This book hits on racial and social injustice in 19th-century England, allowing Alice, who is white, and readers to explore the subjective reality of right and wrong. Through trials and tears, Alice finds herself in and out of Wonderland, trying to save her friends from the Queen of Hearts. The Queen has one objective--to win, whatever the cost. Even though the original story is twisted and strange, this retelling is dark, grim, and grotesque at times. Wonderland isn't tea parties and delicious tiny cakes, but scary and dangerous. It'll take a unique reader and true Alice fan to appreciate this almost horrorlike adaptation. VERDICT A strange reimagining of Wonderland for dark fantasy and horror fans.--Paige Kostelyk, DeMotte Christian Grade School, IN

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