The Princess Protection Program
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"A delightful tongue in cheek twist on fairy tales and the magic school genre. Mixing the modern with the magical, author Alex London skewers popular fairy-tale tropes with a sharp wit and a loving, lighthearted touch, telling an empowering story where princesses learn to be their own fairy godmothers." —Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and Evil
"A slick, sly, and clever love letter to fairy tales. The Princess Protection Program is a celebration of changing the narrative to fit the person you are and not the person people want you to be. It's the fairy tale we need."—Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of Aru Shah and the End of Time
"A clever and laugh-out-loud tale of friendship, magic, and princesses—and a prince—who learn to rewrite their own stories. Absolutely charming." —Sarah Mlynowski, New York Times bestselling author of the Whatever After and Best Wishes series
"A fast-paced, fun, and whimsical read about defining your own destiny." —Claribel A. Ortega, New York Times bestselling author of the Witchlings series
Where can a princess hide if her Ever After isn't all that Happy? Bestselling author Alex London turns classic fairy tales on their heads in this fast-paced, funny fantasy about embracing change and taking control of your own story. For fans of the School for Good and Evil and the Chronicles of Never After series.
Every fairy tale ends with its characters living happily ever after, right? A valiant prince quests long and hard to reach the castle where the sleeping princess lies. And with a kiss, he awakens her.
But what if the princess does not think a kiss from a stranger is a very pleasant way to wake up? Yuck!
When Rosamund flees her prince, a Door of Opportunity opens, and she steps through it to the Home Educational Academy (the HEA for short). Rosamund has found the Princess Protection Program, where fugitive fairy-tale princesses escape unwanted affections, untimely ends, and all the other perils of their stories.
But the longer Rosamund lives in the real world, the more questions she has. Does anyone ever graduate from the HEA? Why doesn't anyone seem to remember the former students? Is the kindly fairy headmistress all she appears to be? Is anyone? And the most important question of all: Can Rosamund change her story?
Acclaimed and bestselling author Alex London weaves together several beloved fairy tales in this fast-paced, funny, and slyly subversive adventure about finding your place in the world.
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Alex London. (2024). The Princess Protection Program. HarperCollins.
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"A delightful tongue in cheek twist on fairy tales and the magic school genre. Mixing the modern with the magical, author Alex London skewers popular fairy-tale tropes with a sharp wit and a loving, lighthearted touch, telling an empowering story where princesses learn to be their own fairy godmothers." —Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and Evil
"A slick, sly, and clever love letter to fairy tales. The Princess Protection Program is a celebration of changing the narrative to fit the person you are and not the person people want you to be. It's the fairy tale we need."—Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of Aru Shah and the End of Time
"A clever and laugh-out-loud tale of friendship, magic, and princesses—and a prince—who learn to rewrite their own stories. Absolutely charming." —Sarah Mlynowski, New York Times bestselling author of the Whatever After and Best Wishes series
"A fast-paced, fun, and whimsical read about defining your own destiny." —Claribel A. Ortega, New York Times bestselling author of the Witchlings series
Where can a princess hide if her Ever After isn't all that Happy? Bestselling author Alex London turns classic fairy tales on their heads in this fast-paced, funny fantasy about embracing change and taking control of your own story. For fans of the School for Good and Evil and the Chronicles of Never After series.
Every fairy tale ends with its characters living happily ever after, right? A valiant prince quests long and hard to reach the castle where the sleeping princess lies. And with a kiss, he awakens her.
But what if the princess does not think a kiss from a stranger is a very pleasant way to wake up? Yuck!
When Rosamund flees her prince, a Door of Opportunity opens, and she steps through it to the Home Educational Academy (the HEA for short). Rosamund has found the Princess Protection Program, where fugitive fairy-tale princesses escape unwanted affections, untimely ends, and all the other perils of their stories.
But the longer Rosamund lives in the real world, the more questions she has. Does anyone ever graduate from the HEA? Why doesn't anyone seem to remember the former students? Is the kindly fairy headmistress all she appears to be? Is anyone? And the most important question of all: Can Rosamund change her story?
Acclaimed and bestselling author Alex London weaves together several beloved fairy tales in this fast-paced, funny, and slyly subversive adventure about finding your place in the world.
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Fairy tale–based messages of empowerment come through loud and clear in this fun yet thought-provoking adventure
by London (Search and Rescue). After waking to a strange prince’s lips on hers, 16-year-old Princess Rosamund, or Sleeping Beauty, arrives at Orphans’ Home Educational Academy, or HEA, with no clue as to how she got there. She is soon absorbed into a training program for “wayward fairy-tale characters, to prepare them for new and happy lives in the wide world known as ‘reality.’ ” With her two new friends, princesses Sirena and Rana, Rosamund begins exploring reality which, “as the teachers reminded her all day long, was no fairy tale.” She’s particularly engrossed in Pizza Arcade, an establishment run by three teen boys and their mother. The more time passes, the more comfortable Rosamund becomes in her new normal, until story-specific beasts called Uponatimes arrive, determined to drag each escapee back to their origins. In this tale of tales whose protagonist sometimes reads as too mature for the target audience, Rosamund evolves from a timid princess archetype into an inquisitive heroine who uses her voice to question what she’s told and shake up the status quo. The narrative’s emphasis on the power of embracing change and standing together against adversity provides a solid foundation for an engaging, lighthearted adventure. Ages 8–12. Agent: Robert Guinsler, Sterling Lord Literistic.
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Sleeping Beauty wakes up and immediately runs away, then finds herself in a school in the modern day. Cheeky prose narrates 16-year-old ("but she was also, it dawned on her, one hundred and sixteen!") Rosamund's hasty escape from the overeager prince through a nearby bathroom and into an unknown world. Her childhood tutor encouraged her to ask questions, so when she gets to the Orphans' Home Educational Academy, which cares for fellow princesses (after all, HEA "could stand for Happily Ever After"), that's the first thing she does. Rosamund's confusion about cell phones, social media, and jeggings provides light amusement, as do on-the-nose references to Perrault and Calvino that might pass younger readers by. Rosamund soon learns that questions are not welcome, but she can't silence her curiosity. She sneaks off campus with classmates Rana and Sirena to meet greasy teenage boys and discovers the joys of pizza. When Sirena, aka the Little Mermaid, gets eaten by a monster called an Uponatime, Rosamund realizes she has many more questions, and she must face her fears to figure out her new story. Rosamund's journey offers some trenchant truisms ("That's the risk of standing up for yourself...There's no promise of a happy ending"), and the resolution is appropriately satisfying. While the tone is amusing, the book draws upon the more gruesome traditional versions of the tales. Most characters read white; Rana is olive-skinned. A lighthearted modern take on the adventures of fairy-tale princesses. (Fantasy. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Grades 4-7 What can a princess do when she no longer wants to be part of her own story? For Rosamund, a kiss from a prince wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and she flees through a Door of Opportunity that takes her to the modern world. Here, she discovers she isn't the only fairy tale leading character who wanted out, and she finds herself in a school setting with a fairy godmother as the headmistress. Except, she starts to notice some things are just . . . off. Rosamund and her new friends eventually decide that they want, quite literally, to take control of their own stories once they uncover the truth about the princess protection program. This is a fresh twist on several classic Western fairy tales, which gets the most inspiration from the darker original versions of events in which some of the princesses, like the Little Mermaid, have gruesome fates they wish to escape. Fans of twisted fairy tales will enjoy piecing together who the different characters are and matching them with their stories.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"A slick, sly, and clever love letter to fairy tales. The Princess Protection Program is a celebration of changing the narrative to fit the person you are and not the person people want you to be. It's the fairy tale we need."—Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of Aru Shah and the End of Time
"A clever and laugh-out-loud tale of friendship, magic, and princesses—and a prince—who learn to rewrite their own stories. Absolutely charming." —Sarah Mlynowski, New York Times bestselling author of the Whatever After and Best Wishes...
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