Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury $8.95 (383p) ISBN 978-1-58234-990-9
PW
called this "an affecting debut novel. Those who enjoy getting lost in an enchanted world will discover here a satisfying and richly embellished retelling of a classic." Ages 10-up. (May)
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Shannon Hale. Little, Brown, $14.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-40122-7
Following the publisher’s previous partnership with Mattel for the Monster High series, Newbery Honor author Hale (Princess Academy) helps kick off the Ever After High series, set at a boarding school for the children of classic fairy-tale heroes...
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Shannon Hale. Bloomsbury, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60819-625-8
Hale sends another lovelorn American to Jane Austen fantasy camp in this gothic-tinged follow-up to Austenland. A year after her messy divorce, Charlotte Kinder buries herself in her job, her children, and her beloved Austen novels, but moving on...
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Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury $24 (339p) ISBN 978-1-59691-288-5
This successful sophomore turn at chick lit (after Austenland
) from YA and graphic novelist Hale sets up a platonic relationship between a dashing movie star and a Mormon housewife. While in Los Angeles to ink a deal for a script she's written,
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Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury $17.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-59990-051-3
Hale (River Secrets
) delivers another winning fantasy, this time inventively fleshing out the obscure Grimm tale, Maid Maleen, through the expressive and earthy voice of Dashti, maid to Lady Saren. A plucky and resourceful orphan, Dashti comes from
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Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury $19.95 (197p) ISBN 978-1-59691-285-4
In 32-year-old singleton Jane Hayes's mind, no man in the world can measure up to Fitzwilliam Darcy—specifically the Fitzwilliam played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
. Jane is forced to confront her Austen...
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Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury
, $ 17.95 (304p) ISBN (290p) ISBN 978-1-58234-901-5
Razo, this winning novel's endearing protagonist, first brought to life as a minor character in Hale's The
Goose Girl
, here gets his own story. Now a confidante of Queen Isi, Razo was originally a simple forest boy whose major skill is...
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Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury $16.95 (314p) ISBN 978-1-58234-993-0
Readers enchanted by Hale's Goose Girl
are in for an experience that's a bit more earthbound in this latest fantasy-cum-tribute to girl-power. Cheerful and witty 14-year-old Miri loves her life on Mount Eskel, home to the quarries filled...
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Shannon Hale, Author . Bloomsbury $17.95 (383p) ISBN 978-1-58234-843-8
In this affecting debut novel, Princess Ani, the shy, sensitive, first-born daughter to the king and queen of Kildenree, embarks on an adventure-filled journey to learn the many lessons that will make her a true queen. With the help of her aunt (the
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Shannon Hale. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59990-873-1
Readers of Hale's Newbery Honor–winning Princess Academy (2005) will welcome this reunion with Miri and her schoolmates, as they descend Mount Eskel to help Britta prepare for her wedding to Prince Steffan. But while the palace in the capital city...
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Shannon Hale. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59990-168-8
For Maisie Danger Brown, who yearns to become an astronaut despite her missing right hand, winning a contest to attend an astronaut boot camp for teens is the opportunity of a lifetime. Things take an extraterrestrial turn when Maisie and her fellow
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Shannon Hale, illus. by LeUyen Pham. First Second, $12.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-62672-785-4
Hale’s childhood struggles with friends and family come to achingly poignant life in this candid graphic memoir. Over five chapters, readers follow a bookish and shy Hale from her earliest days in school through fifth grade, as she zealously guards...
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Shannon Hale, Author, Dean Hale, Author, Nathan Hale, Illustrator . Bloomsbury $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59990-373-6
Calamity Jack
follows up Rapunzel's Revenge
, the 2008 graphic novel that imagined the famous damsel in distress taking matters into her own hands. Children's author Shannon Hale and her husband, Dean, and illustrator Hall offer a...
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Shannon Hale, Author, Dean Hale, Author, Nathan Hale, Illustrator , illus. by Nathan Hale. Bloomsbury $14.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59990-070-4
The popular author of Princess Academy
teams with her husband and illustrator Hale (no relation) for a muscular retelling of the famously long-haired heroine's story, set in a fairy-tale version of the Wild West. The Hales' Rapunzel, the...
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Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Candlewick, $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6510-4
With her cherubic face, gold curls, sparkly tiara, glass slippers, and meringuelike pink-on-pink ensemble, Princess Magnolia seems the epitome of a “prim and perfect” princess. But she has a secret life, one that involves donning a stylish black...
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Shannon Hale, Author, Katherine Kellgren, Read by , read by Katherine Kellgren. Audio Renaissance $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0141-6
Katherine Kellgren gives a marvelous performance in this entertaining chick lit/romance about 30-something Jane, who fantasizes about Jane Austen's heroes (particularly Mr. Darcy) while her real-life relationships flounder. She gets the...
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Shannon Hale. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-20623-7
Josie Pie “was kind of a big deal” in her Yasmine, Ariz., high school, certain that her star power as an actress and vocalist would immediately land her on Broadway, but after dropping out senior year and moving to New York City, Josie’s life is far
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Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illus. by Victoria Ying. DC Zoom, $9.99 paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-9111-2
Indigo-haired Diana, “too old or too young for everything,” gets more than she wishes for when she succeeds in breathing life into a clay figure she hopes will be her friend. Diana’s the only child among the Amazons, female warriors who never age—and
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Shannon Hale, illus. by Tracy Subisak. Dial, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-984816-85-6
This fantastical tongue-in-cheek picture book by Hale (Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn) follows light-skinned, dark-haired Stanley as he attempts to check out a book from the bookmobile “waiting at the crossroads, shiny as a rocket ship.” In place of the “book
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Shannon Hale, illus. by LeUyen Pham. Abrams, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4197-5091-5
This picture book by collaborators Hale and Pham (Real Friends, the Princess in Black series) unfolds on a field of bright white space, a wide-open world tailor-made for a cast of vivid and strong personalities, all rendered in can’t-miss colors....
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