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Gaiman, Neil
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Collingwood, Jane
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HarperCollins 2015
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New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman has created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, ""told in a way only Gaiman can"" (GeekInsider.com), that the Guardian calls ""a refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story.""

In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman has twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories.

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Street Date:
09/22/2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780062421432
Accelerated Reader:
MG+
Level 5.3, 1 Points
Lexile measure:
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Neil Gaiman. (2015). The Sleeper and the Spindle. Unabridged HarperCollins.

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Neil Gaiman. 2015. The Sleeper and the Spindle. HarperCollins.

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Neil Gaiman, The Sleeper and the Spindle. HarperCollins, 2015.

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Neil Gaiman. The Sleeper and the Spindle. Unabridged HarperCollins, 2015.

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