Stepsister

De: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrado por: Jayne Entwistle

* "Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of the familiar fairy tale. Isabelle [is] a shattered but not unredeemable girl with a warrior's heart." -Booklist, starred review

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

A YALSA pick

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.

©2019 Jennifer Donnelly (P)2019 Scholastic Inc.

incredible narration

Great story! I love the adult fairy tale genre- and this book is an exploration of how we might reconceive fairy tales when women own their strength and support each other.

A new perspective

You never outgrow a marvelous fairy tale… at least I hope you never do! Brilliantly written from a very different perspective. I loved this book. The story captures the true essence of strength. Strength of the heart and mind; courage, love and forgiveness.

A very good story

This does have a slow start, but its so good once you get past the first 30-hour.

Great ending

It’s a little slow to start but becomes better and better with each chapter. Well written and well narrated.

New spin on a childhood classic

This story is sprinkled with magic, tragedy, humor and topped off with an amazing lead female character. I read it in a single sitting!!