Just Ella / Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Material type:
TextSeries: Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Palace chronicles ; bk. 1.Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster BRYR, 2015.Edition: First Simon & Schuster paperback editionDescription: 188 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481420211
- 1481420216
- 9781518215049
- 1518215041
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | HADDIX MARGARET | PC1 | Available | 33111010899546 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Cinderella legend gets a realistic twist in this enchantingly believable adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix that Booklist calls "provocative and entertaining."
Ella dreams of going to the royal ball and marrying Prince Charming, just like every commoner in the kingdom of Fridesia. But after she is chosen to marry the prince--no magic involved--life with the royal family is not the happily ever after that Ella imagined. Pitiless and cold, the royals try to mold her into their vision of a princess. Ella's life becomes a meaningless schedule of protocol, which she fears she will never grasp. And Prince Charming's beautiful face hides a vacant soul.
Even as her life turns to misery, stories persist that Ella's fairy godmother sent her to the ball: How else could the poor girl wear a beautiful gown, arrive in a coach, and dance in those glass slippers? But Ella got herself into the castle on her own--and that's the only way she's going to get out.
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
Ages 12 up.