Iron Hearted Violet
Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...
Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being, called the Nybbas, imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon-the last dragon in existence, in fact-may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories make their own rules.
Iron Hearted Violet is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.
A 2012 Andre Norton Award FinalistA Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner
424 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2012 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · ISBN 9780316056755
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Editions
2 editions
English
- Iron Hearted Violet · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 2014 · ISBN 9780316056755 This page
- Iron hearted Violet · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 2012 · ISBN 9781306762182
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