Seventh grade is hard. You count on having your friends around you to share your experiences. But what if that doesn’t happen? This is what Kelly faces in author Jodie Keeling’s book, The Mirror in the Woods. She looked forward to seventh grade with her best friend, Lily, by her side. But then she loses Lily to makeup, cheerleading, boys, and even new friends. All things Kelly isn’t really interested in. Then what starts out as a normal, boring day at school ends in a four-wheeler wreck in front of a mirror in the woods. All it takes is one mixed-up reflection to learn that, sometimes, what is on the other side of the glass might not be what we expect to see. Kelly could be someone you know—even you. Things are going great, and then everything seems upside down. Friendships you thought were forever are torn apart. Maybe you, like Kelly, also have issues with being a middle child. You’ll find The Mirror in the Woods a fun and inspiring read.

Perfect for fans of the Twisted Tales series and Doll Bones, this thrilling, “cleverly original” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade fantasy follows a girl without a face as she battles a deadly enchanted forest and learns the truth behind her world’s fairy tales. Appearances are always deceiving… Fable has been cursed by what the people in her village call the Blight, a twisted enchantment that leaves her without a face of her own. To stay alive, Fable has to steal the faces of others, making her an outcast that no one trusts. When the fierce Blighthunter Vycorax comes to kill Fable to stop her curse from spreading, Fable narrowly escapes by fleeing into the thorny woods surrounding her small village. The treacherous forest has been ruled by a demon-prince for centuries, a deadly place trapped in time. Fable—and her opinionated feline companion, Moth—is the first to dare enter in a very long time. There, she encounters a tediously chatty skull, dangerously meddlesome deities, and a beast so powerful it tears at the fabric of reality, leaving nothingness in its horrible wake. Fable will soon discover that, in the Mirrorwood, nothing is quite like the stories say, and the perilous realm may be the only chance she has to break her curse and find her true self.

Raquel I live my life by one rule: fight to survive. I don't like people; I don't like my job, and I definitely do not like the broody man I'm interviewing. I've built up these walls to keep me safe, Sean's presence in my world would only complicate things. He wouldn't know what to do with me if I came with an instruction manual-because women like me don't get the happily ever after. He might just be the one to break the mirror of my fragile identity. And if I'm not careful? I'll let him. Sean I live my life by one rule: family is everything. I do this for the money; I don't care about flipping houses, and I don't like being interrogated about it by this wannabe Hemingway. But I can't deny my immediate attraction towards her, it fills my mind with what if's-and I only just met her. Raquel doesn't know what she wants, but I know what she needs. I'm ready to give her it all. Even if she needs to hate me first.

Seventh grade is hard enough without losing my best friend, Lily, to makeup, cheerleading, new friends, and boys. What starts out as a normal, boring day at school ends in a four-wheeler wreck in front of a mirror in the woods. Who knew that a mirror in the junk pile would give me much-needed control over my life as well as Lilys? It took one mixed-up reflection to learn that, sometimes, what is on the other side of the glass could be deceiving, and trying to make sense of it all could be dangerous.

It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. And now she can't shake the feeling that if she hadn't gone into Simon's flat, if she'd had her normal Wednesday night instead, then none of what happened next would have happened. And she would never have met Melody Black . . . Wild and witty, searing and true, THE MIRROR WORLD OF MELODY BLACK is about the fine line that separates normal from not - and how life can spin, very swiftly, out of control.