num_pages: 260
description: Twelve-year-old Julie has grown up hearing about the dangerous world of fairy tales, The Wild, from which her mother, Rapunzel, escaped. Now The Wild wants its characters back. Julie comes home from school to find her mother gone and a deep, dark forest swallowing her hometown. Julie must fight wicked witches, avoid glass slippers and fairy godmothers, fly griffins, and outwit ogres in order to rescue her mom and save her Massachusetts town from becoming a fairy-tale kingdom.Sarah Beth Durst weaves a postmodern fairy tale that's fresh, funny, and sweetly poignant.
language: English
title: Into the Wild
titlecomplete: Into the Wild (Into the Wild, #1)
genres: Fairy Tales, Adventure, Retellings, Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retellings, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Magic
ratings_count: 2436
places: Massachusetts
series: Into the Wild
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Andre Norton Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Truman Readers Award
publisher: Razorbill