Bad Hair Day book cover by Sarah Mlynowski

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Where Bad Hair Day sits

Series
Book 5 of Whatever After. See all Whatever After books in order
The book before
Dream On
The book after
Cold as Ice
Order checked
Last checked: September 24, 2026, against sarahm.com
Place in the series
It is book 5 of the Whatever After series. (sarahm.com; read November 6, 2026) Whatever After ... Dream On ... Bad Hair Day
Next book
Book 6 is Cold as Ice. (sarahm.com; read November 6, 2026) Bad Hair Day ... Cold as Ice

What Bad Hair Day is about

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  • Abby and Jonah go through the magic mirror for the fifth time and find themselves inside Rapunzel's tale. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026) On their fifth trip through the magic mirror, siblings Abby and Jonah
  • They try to get her out of the tower and bring her home to her parents. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026) they set out to free her from her tower, reunite her with her parents

Topics in this book

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Topics

  • Brothers and sisters
  • Characters in literature
  • Fairy tales
  • Magic
  • Magic mirrors
  • Rapunzel (Tale)

Reading ages

  • Children's

Other books in Whatever After

17 books listed so far

  1. Book 1: Fairest of All
  2. Book 2: If the Shoe Fits
  3. Book 3: Sink or Swim
  4. Book 4: Dream On
  5. Book 6: Cold as Ice
  6. Book 7: Beauty Queen
  7. Book 8: Once Upon a Frog
  8. Book 9: Genie in a Bottle
  9. Book 10: Sugar and Spice
  10. Book 11: Two Peas in a Pod
  11. Book 12: Seeing Red
  12. Book 13: Spill the Beans
  13. Book 14: Good as Gold
  14. Book 15: Just Dance
  15. Book 16: Liar, Liar
  16. Book 17: Mirror Mirror

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