Just ella - margaret peterson haddix

This retelling of a beloved fairy tale finds 15-year-old Ella discovering that accepting the Princes proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette.

The Cinderella legend gets a realistic twist in this enchantingly believable adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix that Booklist calls provocative and entertaining.

Ella dreams of going to the royal ball and marrying Prince Charming, just like every commoner in the kingdom of Fridesia.

But after she is chosen to marry the prince--no magic involved--life with the royal family is not the happily ever after that Ella imagined.

Pitiless and cold, the royals try to mold her into their vision of a princess.

Ellas life becomes a meaningless schedule of protocol, which she fears she will never grasp.

And Prince Charmings beautiful face hides a vacant soul.

Even as her life turns to misery, stories persist that Ellas fairy godmother sent her to the ball: How else could the poor girl wear a beautiful gown, arrive in a coach, and dance in those glass slippers? But Ella got herself into the castle on her own--and thats the only way shes going to get out.