Before the Broadway production became a movie, an author named Gregory Maguire had an idea. An idea that ultimately became the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the source material for everything yet to come.
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The Book Jumper
Teenager Amy Lennox is spending her summer vacation on the Scottish island of Stormsay, where she meets her grandmother for the first time and learns she is a book jumper — someone who can “read” a book by physically being inside it. All they have to do is open a book and put it over their face. A book jumper’s sworn duty is to preserve literature, but someone has been jumping and stealing main ideas from the stories. It’s up to Amy and her friend Will Macalister to figure out who is committing the thefts, and how and why they are committed.
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