* Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale. 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. -- 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.
Isabelle is] a shattered but not unreedemable girl with a warrior\'s heart. * Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale
