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Stepsister

by Jennifer Donnelly

Synopsis

* "Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale. Isabelle [is] a shattered but not unreedemable girl with a warrior's heart." -- Booklist , starred review An instant New York Times bestseller! A Seventeen Best of the Year Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal A YALSA pick Isabelle should be blissfully happy-she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe . . . which is now filling with blood. Isabelle tried to fit in. She cut away pieces of herself in order to become pretty. Sweet. More like Cinderella. But that only made her mean, jealous, and hollow. Now she has a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl. Evoking the darker, original version of the Cinderella story, Stepsister shows us that ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and uses Jennifer Donnelly's trademark wit and wisdom to send an overlooked character on a journey toward empowerment, redemption . . . and a new definition of beauty.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2019
ISBN-13 9781338268478
ISBN-10 1338268473
Class Copyright
Publisher Scholastic, Incorporated
Subject Juvenile Fiction
File Size 164 MB
Number of Pages 368
Length of Recording 12
Language ENG
Shelf No. ND065
Grade Range 8-12
Ages 12-18
Curriculums Texas Education Agency: Featured Titles Trademarks