Description * Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale.
She lives in New York\'s Hudson Valley..
About the Author Jennifer Donnelly is the author of A Northern Light , which was awarded a Printz Honor and a Carnegie Medal, Revolution (named a Best Book by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the Chicago Public Library, and was nominated for a Carnegie Medal), the Deep Blue series, and many other books for young readers, including Lost in a Book , which spent more than 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. and a new definition of beauty. . .
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 .
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.
But that only made her mean, jealous, and hollow.
More like Cinderella.
Sweet.
She cut away pieces of herself in order to become pretty.
Isabelle tried to fit in. which is now filling with blood. . .
She\'s the ugly Stepsister who cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella\'s shoe .
Except Isabelle isn\'t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince\'s heart.
Isabelle should be blissfully happy-she\'s about to win the handsome prince.
Shatter it. -- Booklist , starred review An instant New York Times bestseller Don\'t just fracture the fairy tale.
Isabelleis] a shattered but not unreedemable girl with a warrior\'s heart.
Description * Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale
