DISPLAY: Here's to the Villains

By: Stephanie Sanders

Macmillan, 2011.

Twelve-year-old Rune Drexler is struggling in his classes at Master Dreadthorn's School for Wayward Villains and will be exiled unless he and his friends, Countess Jezebel Dracula and Big Bad Wolf Junior, can suceed at a nearly impossible plot.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By: Frank L. Baum

HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.

Are You Scared, Darth Vader?

By: Adam Rex

Disney/Lucasfilm Press, 2018.

Although he professes to fear nothing, it turns out that the most-feared villain in the Star Wars universe may not be so fearless after all.

The Witches

By: Roald Dahl

Alfaguara, 1987.

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

By: C.S. Lewis

Collier Books, 1986, c1950.

Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Asland, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

Alan's Big, Scary Teeth

By: Jarvis

Candlewick Press, 2016.

Alan is very scary. He says things like 'I'm big, scary Alan! Fear my razor-sharp teeth!' But all isnot as it seems. Alan, you see, has a very BIG (not-so-scary) secret.

Dylan the Villain

By: K.G. Campbell

Viking, 2016.

Dylan's parents have always boasted that he is the "very best and cleverest super-villain in the whole wide world." but when he meets Addison Van Malice, his powers are put to the test.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

By: Dr. Seuss

Random House, 1957.

The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway. Could Christmas be more than presents?

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