{"title":"Jennifer Donnelly","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"stepsister","title":"Stepsister","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn instant New York Times bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOptioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born and Bruna Papandrea, producer of Big Little Lies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Seventeen Best of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American Librarian Association-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American Library Association Feminist Book Project book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year\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","brand":"Arctos Bookish Den","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272982212820,"sku":"9781338268478","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/8678\/6260\/files\/9781338268478.jpg?v=1783962453"},{"product_id":"poisoned","title":"Poisoned","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Jennifer Donnelly, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Stepsister, comes a fairytale retelling that'll forever change the way you think about strength, power, and the real meaning of \"happily ever after.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce upon a time, a girl named Sophie rode into the forest with the queen's huntsman. Her lips were the color of ripe cherries, her skin as soft as new-fallen snow, her hair as dark as midnight. When they stopped to rest, the huntsman pulled out his knife . . . and took Sophie's heart. It shouldn't have come as a surprise. Sophie had heard the rumors, the whispers. They said she was too kind and foolish to rule -- a waste of a princess. A disaster of a future queen.  ;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Sophie believed them. She believed everything she'd heard about herself, the poisonous words people use to keep girls like Sophie from becoming too powerful, too strong . . .  ;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the help of seven mysterious strangers, Sophie manages to survive. But when she realizes that the jealous queen might not be to blame, Sophie must find the courage to face an even more terrifying enemy, proving that even the darkest magic can't extinguish the fire burning inside every girl -- and that kindness is the ultimate form of strength.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arctos Bookish Den","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272985227476,"sku":"9781338268492","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/8678\/6260\/files\/9781338268492.jpg?v=1783962468"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.arctosbookishden.com\/collections\/jennifer-donnelly.oembed","provider":"Arctos Bookish Den","version":"1.0","type":"link"}