TY - BOOK AU - Riley,James TI - Story Thieves T2 - Story Thieves SN - 9781481409193 U1 - F RIL PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Books and reading KW - Fiction KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Fantasy / Action & Adventure N1 - Middle grade / teen N2 - Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world s homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character. Bethany can t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he'll never say a word. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father...Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot s final (very final) adventure ER -