Gregory Maguire Books in Order

In this prequel to the Wicked stories, pampered yet often ignored Galinda Upland grows up amid dance competitions, social climbing and merchant feuds. Long before she shortens her name, she begins to test how far charm and conscience can really carry her.

Before she was the feared Witch of the West, Elphaba Thropp was a green-skinned child dragged from town to town by her missionary father and restless mother. Growing up between siblings, Animals and uneasy classmates, she learns early how outsiders survive and why Oz may need someone like her.

Rainary Ko has confronted her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, and can no longer ignore her past. As she prepares to leave Maracoor and settle old scores, her revived memories pull the fractured histories of Oz and this new world sharply together.

Still stranded far from Oz, Rain leaves the brides' island for the mainland of Maracoor Abiding, where oracles, bureaucrats and would-be revolutionaries all claim to know her destiny. As her memories and powers sharpen, she must choose whom to trust in a land sliding toward collapse.

After Papa rabbit disappears on a honey-gathering trip, Cress, her little brother Kip and their mother move into a shabby apartment tree called the Broken Arms. Among owls, squirrels, skunks and snakes, Cress faces grief, danger and new friendships in a woodland neighborhood that feels both perilous and homey.

Elphaba's granddaughter Rain washes up, half dead, on the island of Maracoor Spot, clinging to a broom and a talking goose. Taken in by a cloistered order of brides whose rituals hold the world together, she becomes the unsettling stranger blamed when war and unrest spread.

In 1960s Manhattan, troubled teenager Laura lives with her Italian grandparents in a crumbling townhouse and feels completely out of place. When a boy with one arm and one swan wing crashes onto her roof, his presence entangles fairy tale and reality during one snowbound, life-changing Christmas season.

Beginning with an abandoned boy in the Black Forest and ending with a familiar Christmas Eve, this novel imagines the life of Drosselmeier, the maker of the Nutcracker. As Dirk grows into a damaged but gifted toymaker, his creation becomes a fragile promise of hope for an ailing girl.

When Alice tumbles into Wonderland, quiet neighbor Ada follows and finds herself navigating the same strange realm in her own clumsy way. Back in Oxford, Alice's prickly sister Lydia copes with grief, social expectations and a very odd day, as the classic story tilts into new perspectives.

In Czarist Russia, hungry village girl Elena swaps places with wealthy Ekaterina when a train stops in her crumbling town. Their scrambled identities carry them to Saint Petersburg, an ice dragon's lair and the crooked hut of Baba Yaga, in a sweeping tale about class, climate and compassion.

As Oz slides toward open war, Liir's young daughter Rain is drawn into a struggle she barely understands, armed with the spellbook called the Grimmerie and a broom that may yet fly. The final Wicked Years novel weaves old allies and enemies into a bittersweet farewell to Oz.

In the small town of Thebes, New York, sarcastic teen Tabitha Scales suddenly has to care for her devout mother after a blow to the head leaves Mom foulmouthed and unpredictable. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr wrestles with faith, music and old love in a sharply funny, messy year.

On a wind-blown northern coast, poor boy Frederik scavenges the harbor while, across town, a girl sells matches on a freezing Christmas Eve. In this brief retelling of The Little Match Girl, their lives intersect and a lost child finds an unexpected family in the glow of small lights.

This richly illustrated appreciation of Maurice Sendak explores the influences, sketches and finished art behind his groundbreaking picture books. Gregory Maguire walks readers through images, connections and visual jokes, inviting them to look more closely at the wild, unruly worlds Sendak drew for children.

The Cowardly Lion, now called Brrr, tells his side of the story as he serves as reluctant spy and soldier in a troubled Oz. Intertwined with the life of the cryptic oracle Yackle, his confession exposes how fear, compromise and small choices can shape a nation's fate.

Trapped by a storm with dwindling supplies, three children listen as their cousin spins the tale of What-the-Dickens, an orphan skibbereen who never learned the rules of being a tooth fairy. His misadventures in a hidden fairy society slowly mirror the children's own need for courage and hope.

In the aftermath of Elphaba's fall, a battered young man named Liir wakes in a monastery with no clear memory of who he is. As he searches for a missing girl and proof of his own parentage, he is pushed toward the unfinished work of the woman called wicked.

It is the last day of school in Hamlet, the day of Miss Earth's wedding and the arrival of the Sinister Sisters Circus. As ghosts, aliens, cupids and one vengeful snow spider all return, the Copycats and Tattletales race to keep their town safe and say goodbye in style.

A piano and vocal songbook collecting music from the hit musical and its film adaptation of Wicked. Arranged for singers and accompanists, it features favorites such as Defying Gravity and Popular for fans who want to bring Oz to the piano bench.

This collection of fractured fairy tales turns classic stories into animal romps, from a frog princess called Leaping Beauty to a baking-obsessed Cinder-Elephant and a sly fox named Goldiefox. Each short tale twists a familiar plot into something sillier, sharper and very much its own.

Spring pranks are all anyone in Hamlet can think about until beloved teacher Miss Earth suddenly disappears. Rumors of a monster in the woods collide with real family troubles, and the students slowly realize that some problems cannot be solved with tricks alone.

In Renaissance Italy, young Bianca de Nevada grows up on a quiet estate until the charismatic and dangerous Borgias arrive. When Lucrezia Borgia's jealousy turns murderous, Bianca flees into the forest, where seven dwarves and a mysterious mirror draw her into a darker Snow White than the one you remember.

A new boy, Thud Tweed, storms into Miss Earth's class and quickly turns classmates against one another. When three genetically altered eggs hatch into strange creatures, lies and divided loyalties pile up, and the Copycats and Tattletales must decide whether they trust each other enough to do the right thing.

American writer Winifred Rudge travels to London to visit a cousin and research a ghost story, only to find his flat empty and apparently haunted. As she digs into family history tied to the man who inspired Scrooge, Winifred confronts grief, unfinished business and the stories we tell ourselves.

Valentine's Day descends on Hamlet along with four bumbling cupids whose love arrows rarely hit the right hearts. The Tattletales plot to match Miss Earth with a handsome TV anchor, but every misfired shot tangles friendships until the rival clubs have to untwist the chaos together.

This collection gathers essays and conversations about writing for children, edited by Gregory Maguire and Barbara Harrison. Novelists, critics and scholars explore how classic tales are made, why young readers matter, and what it takes to craft stories that last.

In seventeenth-century Holland, plain, sharp-eyed Iris Fisher becomes companion to Clara, a hidden beauty who will one day be known as Cinderella. Amid tulip-mania, painting studios and a fiercely pragmatic stepmother, Iris learns how stories of beauty and ugliness can be quietly rewritten from within.

On Christmas Eve in Hamlet, Vermont, a spaceship arrives carrying five clueless aliens who think the planet is ruled by a jolly tyrant in a red suit. When they kidnap the mayor in his Santa costume, Miss Earth's feuding boys and girls must join forces to rescue him and save the holiday.

Back in Miss Earth's fifth-grade classroom, the rival Copycats and Tattletales argue about whether ghosts exist. Then phantom mammoths begin stomping through Hamlet, and wigs, fright masks and hair spray become unlikely weapons as the kids race to soothe the spirits before disaster strikes.

In occupied France, Marcel and his brothers pride themselves on spinning outrageous lies and dodging trouble. Their games turn serious when a German soldier befriends them and a Jewish mother and child hide in their attic, forcing Marcel to ask whether a well-told lie can also be brave.

Long before Dorothy dropped into Oz, green-skinned Elphaba was a sharp, lonely student trying to make sense of power, prejudice and fate. This adult reimagining follows her from birth to her final clash with a girl from Kansas, asking what it really means to be called wicked.

In Hamlet, Vermont, seven prehistoric snow spiders thaw out on their way to a lab and fixate on seven schoolgirls as their chosen mothers. While Miss Earth's class feuds over a Halloween play, the spiders creep closer, forcing sworn enemies to work together.

Twelve-year-old Alice, hard of hearing and living in a Catholic orphanage in upstate New York, has never quite fit in. When a camp counselor mistakes her for a girl named Miami Shaw, Alice discovers she may have a twin and sets out to find the family she has only imagined.

On visits to her grandmother's country house, a young girl hears endless stories about Lucas Fishbone, the invisible guest who always seems to have a place at the table. As the seasons turn, she gradually understands how this imagined friend helps Grandma face change, memory and loss.

Years after a nuclear war, three teenagers in an underground survival colony begin to question whether their safe bunker has become a prison. As Sorb stops taking his calming pills, he draws Ella and Mart into a dangerous plan to reach the surface and decide their own future.

Lester worries that his small-town life is too dull for his glamorous Aunt June, until he takes her to the Peace and Quiet Diner. Over one noisy afternoon of spills, surprises and hungry customers, he realizes that adventure can sneak into the most ordinary places.

Thirteen-year-old Hand Gunther finds his gentle father dead on the floor of their rundown Massachusetts motel, and his long-absent mother suddenly back in charge. As grief, suspicion and an ailing uncle close in, two Iranian refugees help Hand rediscover the generosity his father lived by.

In the remote village of Miersk, a monstrous wolf called the Blood Prince stalks winter streets, devouring villagers' sense of safety. Guided and provoked by the witch Baba Yaga, Pasha and Lisette must untangle old tales and new magic before their homes are destroyed.

Lonely Daniel Rider spends the summer in his late grandmother's house by an Adirondack lake, haunted by fog, strange lights and a black bird that seems to carry other people's dreams. When he befriends a grieving poet, Daniel risks slipping between worlds to help him heal.

Twelve-year-old Erikka Knorr escapes a cramped Chicago apartment by hiding out in an elderly bookseller's shop, where art, friendship and a rich couple's scheme collide. Helping to save the store, she learns that beauty lives in flawed people as much as in perfect pictures.

Farmer Crabby Cratchitt wants nothing more than a little peace, but one noisy hen will not stop clucking. After a wild chase around the farm and a close call with a hungry fox, Crabby discovers that companionship is sometimes worth the commotion.

Visiting his grandmother's mountain home, David is drawn into a secret world of midnight lightning, talking animals and a watchful stone lion. When developers arrive with plans for a resort, he and a new friend must decide how far they will go to defend the land.