Rapunzel Cuts Loose by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

Author:Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams [Holub, Joan & Williams, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545662840
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Protected here are the writings of the

Grimm brothers, Charles Perrault,

Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum,

Lewis Carroll, Andrew Lang, Edmund Dulac,

Mother Goose, and other great works of

fairy tale, folklore, and nursery rhyme.

“What’ll happen to this room if the Society gets its way? If E.V.I.L.’s leader takes over the Academy?” Cinda wondered aloud. “We can’t forget what Ms. Wicked’s datebook said they have planned for Monday.” She pitched her voice to sound evil. “GA is ours!”

Rapunzel shivered. “We’ll stop them. Somehow. We have to!”

All around them, objects were moving about the room under their own power. A pair of shiny red patent leather shoes over in one corner were dancing to music the girls couldn’t hear. A bunch of checkers were slowly and aimlessly floating around like black and red snowflakes.

A feather pen kept dipping itself in a bottle of ink that sat on the huge, ornate desk. Above the desk hung the Grimm brothers’ splendid coat of arms, which looked like a big shield with various gold emblems on it. Cinda and Rapunzel eyed it warily.

“I don’t see anything, do you?” Rapunzel whispered. “No eyeballs or noses? No hazy mist?”

“No,” Cinda agreed, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, a pair of spectacles with round lenses lifted off the desk. They flew over and set themselves on Rapunzel’s face. Startled, she reached out to remove them, but they’d already taken themselves off. They flew back to the desk and gradually lowered until they came to rest on it again. Right beside a box of index cards labeled STOLEN ARTIFACTS.

“See if you can figure out where this goes. Ms. Goose said it belongs in here somewhere,” said Rapunzel, handing Cinda the xylophone. “While you do that, I’ll file those missing artifacts cards on the desk over there in alphabetical order like she asked me to.”

After handing Cinda the net bag containing the xylophone, Rapunzel went over and sat down in the big leather desk chair. She opened the file box. To her surprise, there were easily more than a dozen cards inside.

Still holding the bagged xylophone, Cinda came to look over her shoulder at the cards. “Each of those is for an artifact that has gone missing? But I only thought a few had been stolen, beginning this year.”

“Me, too,” said Rapunzel, thumbing through them. “But there’s a missing golden apple, a horn, a jack-in-the-box. I count seventeen things that have disappeared from the library in all.” As she began organizing the cards, Cinda went over to a display of musical instruments.

“Oops!” said Cinda. Rapunzel looked over to see that she had almost tripped over a metal wind-up toy hedgehog about eight inches tall that was lumbering around on the floor. Finding a blank space on a shelf of musical instruments just big enough for the xylophone, Cinda carefully set it between a lute, a glockenspiel, and a tambourine, then came back to the desk.

By that time, Rapunzel had alphabetized all seventeen cards. “Look!” she told Cinda, a chill sweeping her.

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