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Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale

by Liz Braswell

A return to Wonderland through Alice’s camera

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    From the New York Times bestselling Twisted Tales series

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A return to Wonderland through Alice’s camera

Set in Kexford, this reimagining gives Alice an adult life shaped by her own interests and by expectations that she become “respectable.” Photographs she takes around town begin showing Wonderland figures in place of their real subjects, including an injured Mary Ann asking for help. The images draw Alice back into the world of her childhood, where she must confront the Queen of Hearts’ rule while seeking a place in both worlds. The camera links the everyday setting to Wonderland and gives this Alice story a mystery-driven starting point, with the threatened realm and the countdown to the End of Time raising the stakes.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fairy-tale adaptations.
  • Readers who enjoy reimagined Disney stories, especially Alice in Wonderland.
  • Those drawn to stories about identity, social expectations, and a return to a childhood fantasy world.

Themes

Identity and belongingSocial expectationsPhotography and perceptionWonderland and fairy-tale adaptationPower and tyranny

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Book overview

What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?Now in a deluxe paperback edition featuring gorgeous sprayed edges! Climb down the rabbit hole in this tale based off Disney's Alice In Wonderland, from the New York Times bestselling series that reimagines beloved Disney classics in a creative way.

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?

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