Age: 7th-12th grade

Seven-year-old Alyss is torn from her life of luxury after her evil Aunt Redd brutally kills Alyss' parents and steals the thrown. Hatter Madigan escapes Wonderland with Alyss to Victorian England where they are separated along the way. Now spelt Alice, she attempts to convince her friends and newly acquired family of her magical past. Nobody believes her until Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) asks Alice to turn her story into a book. What she doesn't realize is that he turns it into the fictional fantasy world we know as Alice in Wonderland. Exhausted by the age of 16, Alice begins to believe her former life was a made-up fantasy and devotes herself entirely to the life she's led since she was 7. As she is about to wed, Hatter Madigan finally finds her and takes her back to Wonderland where she sees the moral and physical destruction of her homeland by Aunt Redd. But can she take back the queendom when she's rejected her past for so long?

While this may not be for devout fans of Alice in Wonderland, this is an excellent rendition of a famous storyline. While characters and some famous phrases remain the same, everything else is turned on its head. While the timeline is hard to follow, the action and interesting plot captivate you through the book until the very end, unfortunately creating a rushed ending.

Depictions of the death of parents brings this book to a young adult audience.