{"product_id":"stepsister-9781338268478","title":"Stepsister","description":"\u003cb\u003e* \"Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale. Isabelle [is] a shattered but not unredeemable girl with a warrior's heart.\" -- Booklist, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant New York Times bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOptioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born and Bruna Papandrea, producer of Big Little Lies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Seventeen Best of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American Librarian Association-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American Library Association Feminist Book Project book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabelle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabelle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvoking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Donnelly is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Northern Light\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded a Printz Honor and a Carnegie Medal; \u003ci\u003eRevolution\u003c\/i\u003e (named a Best Book by Amazon, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Chicago Public Library, and nominated for a Carnegie Medal); the Deep Blue series; and many other books for young readers, including \u003ci\u003eLost in a Book\u003c\/i\u003e, which spent more than 20 weeks on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scholastic Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621075095826,"sku":"9781338268478","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8331a2f4-1024-46af-8fd8-fa8cb0a06430.jpg?v=1732580547","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stepsister-9781338268478","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}