The Storybook of Legends

Ever After High Series

Author: Shannon Hale

Book 1 in the Ever After High series

Pages: 306

Published: 2013

Age: 8+

It’s Legacy Day at Ever After High; the day when second year students sign the Storybook of Legends and become magically bound to their parents’ fairy tales. Among the pledging class are the future Tom Thumb, future fairy godmother to Cinderella, and a future witch. Two first year students watch carefully. One is eager for her time to sign, but the other dreads her moment . . .

As the daughter of the Evil Queen, Raven Queen's destiny is to follow in her mother's wicked footsteps, but evil is so not Raven's style. She's starting to wonder, what if she rewrote her own story? The royal Apple White, daughter of the Fairest of Them All, has a happy ever after planned for herself, but it depends upon Raven feeding her a poison apple in their future.What if Raven doesn't sign the Storybook of Legends? It could mean a happily never after for them both.

About the Ever After High Series

Reading age: 8+ years

This series should be read in order.

At Ever After High, an enchanting boarding school, the children of fairytale legends prepare themselves to fulfill their destinies as the next generation of Snow Whites, Prince Charmings and Evil Queens... whether they want to or not.

Each year on Legacy Day, students sign the Storybook of Legends to seal their scripted fates. But not everyone is happy with the current arrangement. While the Royals always get their 'happily ever after', the Rebels are forced into a life of evil that they do not choose. For generations, the Village of Book End has whispered that refusing to sign means The End – both for a story and for a life. So what's an Evil Queen's daughter to do?