{"product_id":"fairy-tale-9781668002193","title":"Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003eA #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice! \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLegendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMagnificent, terrifying, and \"spellbinding...packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhood, \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is vintage King at his finest\" (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Good, evil, a kingdom to save, monsters to slay--these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.\" --Laura Miller, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668002193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 1.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e518548 \/ Fairy Tale: A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.3 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 33\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42835622265013,"sku":"9781668002193","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e0af148e-ca8d-44da-b3a3-97fd3119f446.jpg?v=1681224462","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fairy-tale-9781668002193","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}