Pick the Plot - Story Thieves, Book 4 By: James Riley - Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins - Release date: 09-26-17 5. Book 2 in the series, The Stolen Chapters, was released J. Secret Origins - Story Thieves, Book 3 By: James Riley - Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins - Release date: 01-17-17 4. The young (they're studying fractions in school) protagonists often are pretty one-note, but they learn a few things about bravery, looking out for one another, dealing with unexpected developments, and averting cosmic disaster. Story Thieves (Story Thieves Series 1) by James Riley 4.6 (16) Paperback (Reprint) 8.99 Hardcover 19.99 Paperback 8.99 eBook 8.99 Audiobook 0.00 Audio CD 39. There's violence aplenty, from impending planetary doom to weird robotic surgeries, but it's usually brief and almost always cartoonish.

That doesn't mean this wild mash-up won't find an appreciative audience, especially among kids who spend a lot of time in virtual worlds (especially video games), where the pacing is frenetic, just about anything can happen, and making sense is optional. reality, and the clash between science and imagination. Parents need to know that just about everything about Story Thieves, the series opener from Half Upon a Time author James Riley, has probably been done better elsewhere, from robots, zombies, and magical weapons to pondering such big issues as free will, fiction vs. …Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany’s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot’s final ( very final) adventure.A librarian character steers a young reader away from author Riley's previous work, Half Upon a Time. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father… It turns out Bethany’s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.īethany can’t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen’s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he’ll never say a word. Owen, Kiel, and Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, and some very familiar faces in the second book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores.īut everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen-his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series.

A hilarious, action-packed New York Times bestselling series launches with a story-within-a-story, from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.

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