Book: If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?Author: Melissa Kantor
Audience: Teen
In a Nutshell: is Prince Charming captain of the basketball team, or a brooding artist?
Lucy's mother died when she was young, and she had no need for another one. But her father remarried anyway, to a furniture-shopping socialite with twin socialite-wannabe daughters who can do no wrong in their mother's eyes. Now she's stuck on the East Coast, thousands of miles from home and friends, and even her dad has abandoned her to work all week out of state, leaving her alone with the steps.
Despite feeling like a social pariah, she catches the attention of the Big Man on Campus with her impressive basketball knowledge and fandom. But all is not quite right, despite her overnight popularity by association. She's stuck for how to finish her art project, the talented guy in her class continues to ignore her entirely, and her step-mother keeps her in the basement with no furniture and horns in on all her time with her dad.
Cinderella retellings abound, and no surprises here, but I really liked this one. Very witty, funny writing, and not all the stereotyped characters are entirely shallow.
2 comments:
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