The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley
Juvenile Fiction2002 · 240 pages · ~4 hr read

The Great Good Thing

by Roderick Townley
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Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often. Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way. Sylvie longs to get away and explore the world outside the confines of her book. When she breaks the cardinal rule of all storybook characters and looks up at the Reader, Sylvie begins a journey that not even she could have anticipated. And what she accomplishes goes beyond any great good thing she could have imagined...

Listed under Juvenile Fiction · Fairy Tales & Folklore · Legends, Myths, Fables · Royalty

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What is The Great Good Thing about?

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often. Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way.

Who wrote The Great Good Thing?

The Great Good Thing was written by Roderick Townley.

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