The Fairy-Tale Detectives: The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley
This book seemed very familiar. Then I realized I had read it a year ago. Two girls are orphaned and end up in very cruel fost families. Then they end up in a fairy tale land. The fairy tale characters are all there, but have different identities. Sometimes they come out - as the police may switch to their big form when they see food opportunities. The girls are thrown in to a detective case to try to find their grandma. There are a number of twists and turns connected to the involvement of Jack, Giants and Prince Charming. They use bits of fairy tale magic at times (including infiltration of a fairy tale ball.) The story has echos of Roald Dahl and feels like it must have been as fun to write as it is to read.
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