Reckless by Cornelia Funke

Funke, Cornelia. Reckless. 1st paperback. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.  ISBN 978 0316 056076 $8.99. 394 pages

Genre: Fantasy, action, fairytale

Snap n' Read booktalk:

 Ever since their father disappeared, Jacob Reckless has been escaping into the Mirror World where fairy tales are brutally real and even the trees are lethal but no matter what excitement, fame, or treasure Jacob finds there he always returns to his little brother, Will.  Things quickly go wrong when Will follows him one day and falls under a dark spell. Can Jacob save his brother in time?  From page 61:

  The voices of the will-o'-the wisps filled the air like the hum of bees. The raven cawed somewhere in the trees.  But Clara was listening for another sound: the sharp snipping that haddarkened Jacob's face with worry and had made him go back to the forest.  What was waiting out there, turning even the house of a child-eater into a safe haven?[read quickly & dramatically] Snip-Snap.  There it was again. Like the snapping of metallic teeth. [pause]  Clara backed away from the fence.  Long shadows were growing toward the house, and she felt the same fear as a child when she was alone and heard steps in the hallway.She should have told Will what his brother was planning.  He would never forgive her if Jacob didn't come back.He would come back.[pause]He had to come back.[pause and then read slowly]They'd never find their way home without him.

 

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