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Here’s a fast-paced riveting adventure story for young fantasy fans to enjoy right down to its happily ever after ending—ALA Booklist
Kathy Lasky embellishes and burnishes the time-honored tropes of the Cinderella tale with her customary clarity of storytelling and novelty of invention. Glass sparkles.—Gregory Maguire New York Times bestselling author of Wicked
Newbery Honoree and New York Times bestselling author of the Guardians of Ga’Hooleseries Kathryn Lasky delivers an enchanting prequel to the Cinderella story from the perspective of a young fairy godmother.
In a grand glass house there was a girl named Bess whose power would one day change the fate of her family. . . Bess Wickham has always felt like a bit of an outcast among her family of extraordinary glassblowers but then an immense magical power that’s lain dormant in her bloodline begins to emerge. So when she suspects her family’s business has taken a sinister turn Bess must find the strength to defeat dark magic and save a certain cinder girl. But will she shatter under the weight of such evil or get her happily ever after?
