

This leads to many adventures in solving wars between worlds, making fictional friends and traveling through many tales. When Owen catches Bethany, he convinces her to take him into his favorite book series to keep him from sharing her secret. She has been doing this in hopes of finding her missing father, who she believes isn't in the nonfiction world anymore. In the previous books, we learned that Bethany has the ability to jump into books and enter their worlds. In this installment, preteens Owen and Bethany team up again in the ongoing search for Bethany's father. "Story Thieves: Secret Origins" is the third book in a planned five-book series by James Riley.

" STORY THIEVES: SECRET ORIGINS ," by James Riley, Aladdin, $17.99, 372 pages (f) (ages 9-12)
