The Storybook World

Celestine C

Description

Bella Gardener, an average teenager, has loved fairytales all her life. She has always wanted her own. When she finds herself in the Storybook World, where fairytales are made, she is ecstatic. She befriends the Fairy Godmother and a certain good-looking prince. Along the way, a vengeful sorceress hunts her down. Bella then attends an academy for magic, where she meets friends and teachers. When the sorceress attacks the school, lives and the future of The Storybook World are at stake. Can Bella work together with her friends to save her school and The Storybook World?

Sujets

• Storybook World
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Date de parution: 01 août 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781543774931
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

The Storybook World
 
The Adventure of a Lifetime
 
 
 
 
 
 
Celestine C
 
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2023 by Celestine C.
 
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-5437-7494-8
 
Softcover
978-1-5437-7495-5
 
eBook
978-1-5437-7493-1
 
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Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
About the Author
Chapter 1

B ella stretched on the couch, preparing to read her new fantasy novel. Her parents, Herb and Rosemary Gardener, were in their sports car, driving to the supermarket to buy groceries. The maid, Hana, was upstairs, probably cleaning the rooms. Her sister, Tori, was in the next town, taking an acting lesson with a professional actor.
Bella opened Cinderella to the first page, her eyes flitting from the left to the right, drinking in the words.
BAM ! The front door slammed. Tori came in, furiously fidgeting with her phone.
‘Hi, Bella. I need a drink’. She opened a can of red fizzy punch and sat next to Bella.
‘Shouldn’t you be in the next town, having your acting lessons with Lindsay Larkins?’
‘Yeah’, Tori replied, ‘but she cancelled when I was halfway there’.
‘Bummer’.
‘What are you reading?’ Tori sipped more punch.
Bella flashed her the cover.
‘Wow! A little keen, aren’t you? It’s the holidays’, Tori said.
‘I love fairy tales!’ Bella said eagerly. ‘I wish I could have my own happy-ever-after’.
‘You can earn your fairy tale, sis’. Tori smiled warmly.
At six o’clock, Herb and Rosemary returned home with hamburgers, french fries, and drinks from the burger place down in town.
‘How was acting class, dear?’ Rosemary asked, chewing her veggie burger.
‘Miss Larkins cancelled. Said she had to see her hairdresser’, Tori said, picking pickles out of her cheeseburger.
‘Really!’ Herb gasped. ‘I will call and complain. I pay her good money to teach you’.
‘Did you get Cinderella , dearie?’ Rosemary asked, taking a bite from Herb’s bacon burger.
‘Yes. It was fantastic! I already finished it!’ Bella finished her cheeseburger and started on her fries.
Bella woke the next morning with a thick fairy tale clamped to her chest.
She’d had a very weird dream of a boy she’d never seen before, with shiny black eyes, dark hair, and tan skin. He was very handsome, and in her dream, Bella thought he smelt like lemon and mint.
Two egg white omelets on China plates and another plate of toast sat on the dining table, Hana ambled over, carrying a basket of laundry.
‘Morning’, Bella said.
‘Good morning. Mr. and Mrs. Gardener went into town to purchase some things’, Hana informed her.
Bella barely heard a word. She kept thinking about the boy in her dream.
‘I wish I was in a fairy tale’, she said, staring at a picture of a prince saving his princess from a burning castle in her book.
Chapter 2

B ella wasn’t at home anymore. She was in a dark forest. Trees stretched into the sky, and thick bushes were scattered everywhere.
Shivering and barefoot, she scampered past bushes and trees, her nightgown trailing behind her.
A big black wolf crept up behind Bella. ‘Hello, my pretty’, the wolf sneered. ‘Aren’t you a sweet piece of candy?’
‘H-h-how are you talking?’ Bella spluttered, biting her lip nervously.
‘I have a mouth’, the wolf snickered. ‘That’s how’.
Bella was rooted to the spot.
‘Well?’ asked the wolf. ‘Aren’t you gonna scream?’
‘I-I-I—’
Then she fainted.
Before her eyes closed, she saw a white light hit a black blur.
When Bella awoke, she was no longer in the forest. She was in a house.