In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless.
A 2012 Andre Norton Award Finalist A Parents\' Choice Gold Award Winner.
Iron Hearted Violet is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.
After all, stories make their own rules.
It all depends on how they tell the story.
Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon-the last dragon in existence, in fact-may hold the key to the Nybbas\'s triumph or its demise.
But then the whispers start.
The story cannot be true-- not really .
It tells a story of an evil being, called the Nybbas, imprisoned in their world.
A forbidden book.
One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book.
Particularly when it comes to telling stories.
Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good.
But this isn\'t most fairy tales...
Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless.
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Barnhill presents a story of the last dragon in existenceNand how one enchanted tale changes an entire kingdom.
This isn\'t most fairy tales.
In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless
