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"In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated...
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That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. 'My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.' I stopped. So begins this richly entertaining story of Ella of Frell, who wants nothing more than to be free of Lucinda's...
6) Stepsister
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Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
9) Cinderella
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Presents a retelling of the story of Cinderella, who although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.
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Tatiana, the Queen of the Fairies, asks Verity to help the Fairy Godmother get Cinderella to the ball on time because she keeps forgetting things, and Verity jumps at the chance to earn a lilac star. But when the Fairy Godmother leaves everything in Verity's hands, she panics because Cinderella must be home by midnight, and Verity can't tell time. Luckily, her friend Celeste is happy to help, and Verity learns that asking for help is more important...
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Cendrillon rêve d'aller au bal du prince, mais elle n'a pas de belle robe ni de carrousse pour s'y rendre. Heureusement, elle a Clifford, son parrain magique!
Cinderella dreams of going to the prince's ball, but she doesn't have a beautiful dress or a fancy carriage to take her there. Luckily, she does have Clifford, her fairy dogfather, to help!
13) Cinder & glass
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For this princess, winning the crown is no fairytale.
Cendrillon de Louvois has more grace, beauty, and charm than anyone else in France. While she was once the darling child of the king's favorite adviser, her father's death has turned her into the servant of her stepmother and cruel stepsisters--and at her own chateau, too! Cendrillon--now called Cinder--manages to evade her stepmother and attend the ball, where she catches the eye of the handsome...
14) The charmed wife
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"Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron,...
15) Ceni Cienta
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"When a school dance coming up, Cindy Rella's career-driven stepmother and ultra-vapid stepsisters make her feel like she isn't glamorous enough to attend, but with the help of a handicapped friend and his tailor father, Cindy gets her chance to go to the dance"--Provided by publisher.
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"Tossed back into the not-so-familiar fairy-tale world of Never After, Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends set off on another adventure . . . this time in search of Cinderella's glass slipper. Or rather, glass slippers. It turns out the classic story of Cinderella is full of lies-starting with how Cinderella herself is far from the innocent heroine everyone thinks she is. She's manipulative and cunning-willing to do anything to be the princess...
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Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.
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"Bess Wickham has always felt an outcast among her family of extraordinary glassblowers. Their glass creations are known for their beauty, but behind that beauty lies an unknown darkness. Bess won't be initiated into the family business until she turns sixteen, but her special talent has been essential since she was a child: she can speak to forest creatures. And Bess is gifted in more ways than one...a magical power that's lain dormant in her bloodline...
20) Liar's kingdom
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"Liar's Kingdom is a dark Cinderella retelling in the vein of Into the Woods, in which the wrong girl fits the glass slipper and marries the prince to save herself from her cruel stepfamily, but soon finds she is now princess of a kingdom on the brink of a war against faerie-kind, and that everyone, including the prince's treacherous best friend, is desperate to reveal her secrets to protect their own."--Author's website.