num_pages: 240
description: Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way. Sylvie longs to get away and explore the world outside the confines of her book.When she breaks the cardinal rule of all storybook characters and looks up at the Reader, Sylvie begins a journey that not even she could have anticipated. And what she accomplishes goes beyond any great good thing she could have imagined...
language: English
title: The Great Good Thing
titlecomplete: The Great Good Thing (The Sylvie Cycle, #1)
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Books About Books
ratings_count: 2617
series: The Sylvie Cycle
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers