The Sisters Grimm

In my next set of recommended books, you will see more fantasy. I stumbled upon this series of books when the Scholastic Book Fair came to my school. They appeared interesting so I placed them on my wish list. The series created by Michael Buckley is The Sisters Grimm.
The series starts out with Sabrina and Daphne Grimm being bounced from foster home to foster home because their parents were kidnapped. In the first book, The Fairy Tale Detectives, the girls are taken to New York to meet up with a family member that they have never met, their grandmother. When they reach Fairyport Landing, New York, the eldest girl, Sabrina, hates her grandmother for never having tried to get in contact with the girls. Tension remains throughout the story as Sabrina begins to learn things about her grandmother. Granny Relda, as the grandmother has the girls call her, is a descendant of the famous Grimm Brothers.
In the story, we find out that all fairy tale and mythical creatures are real and living in Fairyport Landing, New York. They are also stuck in this town. A magical spell has placed a barrier around the town, capturing all fairy tale creatures until the final Grimm relative has died. The fairy tale characters are disguised as humans living in the real world. The Grimms help these characters solve mysteries that occur in the town. In The Fairy Tale Detectives, they must find out who destroyed a farmer's house, which could lead to an even more gigantic problem.
I thoroughly enjoy this series especially because they combine all of the characters I grew up knowing from fairy tales into a new creative mystery. My third graders loved when I read these books to them. Many of them went on to read the subsequent books on their own. I highly recommend this series for its humor, adventure, and action.