Bookish Basil has to help his sporty neighbor Terry with his reading skills, and the two sit down to read the Grimm's Fairy Tales. When Basil starts fiddling with a special bookmark that matches the book cover, Gretel jumps out of the book pages! She begs them to return with her to the fairy tale world to rescue her brother Hansel, who has been kidnapped. If they can't return Hansel to his story, the whole fairy tale world might collapse under the plot hole. 

This story was so fun and adventurous! The boys get up to all kinds of shenanigans in the fairy tale world. I loved the hilarious world-building in this book. All the fairy tale characters are faithfully playing their part in their own stories, but that doesn't mean they like it. Gretel's character is a big crybaby, but Gretel herself is not really like that; she was just written that way. Briar Rose is annoyed when everyone falls in love with her simply because she was written that way. It makes for some really funny plot twists when the characters step outside their written roles.

I liked the way that Basil and Terry learn to get along even though they have very different personalities. They tease each other a bit in the beginning, but eventually they learn to work together to save the fairy tale world!

This book was marked as “Nothing Found” on the Screen It First website, indicating that there is no sensitive or objectionable content in the book. https://screenitfirst.com/book/losing-the-plot-2547928

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