About this product
An instant New York Times bestseller
Optioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born and Bruna Papandrea, producer of Big Little Lies
A Seventeen Best of the Year
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal
An American Librarian Association-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book
An American Library Association Feminist Book Project book
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year
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.
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
ISBN-10: 1338268465
ISBN-13: 9781338268461
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 1.10d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 503773 / Stepsister
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2019 pg. 52
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2019
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2019
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 103
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