Land Of Stories: A Grimm Warning Summary

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Book Report: Quarter 4 Name: Maya Zepeda Period: 4 Title and author: Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer Number of pages in book: 469 Section 1 Page Range: 156 Dates Read: 4/21, 4/28 completed 156 pages on 4/29. Original Summary: On Earth in present time, Conner Bailey was stuck on the other side of a torn portal. The portal was closed by the Fairy Godmother. The Fairy Godmother was Connor and Alex Bailey’s grandmother. She closed the portal so that no one could come in or out of the Fairytale world and be put in danger. She originally created it so that she could go to Earth and tell stories to kids that are less fortunate. Conner got an invitation from his teacher in the mail to go on a trip to Schwangau, Germany for …show more content…

The Grimm Brothers put the stories in a capsule to be opened in two-hundred years, which is why Connor was going on the trip to Germany. The story that really caught Connors attention was A Grimm Warning. He suspected that it was about the Fairytale world and that his sister Alex and everyone there was in grave danger. Conner found out from Mother Goose that the Grimm Brothers were suspected by the Grande Army that the stories that they were telling the world were of a world other than theirs. In 1811 the Grande Army took the Grimm Brothers as prisoners. Jacques Du Marquis, a French general and leader of the Grande Army, told the Grimm Brothers that if they did not tell the army where they got their stories from then they would hurt their families. The Brothers, afraid that they would actually hurt their families, told the general that there was another world and where the portal was to get to it. The Brothers made a plan for the army so that they could make it into the world safely, but secretly the brothers betrayed the army and told the Fairy Godmother to close the portal while the Army was inside of it and trapped them inside. On the trip after listening to the stories Conner’s crush, A girl named Bree who had also been invited on the trip,

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