Enchanted (The Woodcutter Sisters, 1)

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by Alethea Kontis

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It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland--and a man Sunday's family despises. The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past--and hers? A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2012 A World Book Night Selection An ALA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection An Andre Norton Award Nominee * "A fabulous fairy-tale mashup that deserves hordes of avid readers. Absolutely delectable."— Kirkus Reviews, starred review * "Kontis delivers a fairy-tale mash-up that outright sparkles."— School Library Journal,  starred review "Fantasy readers will undoubtedly enjoy the . . . mash-up of these famous stories, spiced with comedy, romance and magical powers."— VOYA "A wonderful mix-up of fairy-tale tropes, a clever love story, and a delightful tale all on its own!"—Tamora Pierce "A charming tumble of fairy tales, spiced with humor and sprinkled with true love." —Sharon Shinn, best-selling author of the Samaria series "If Neil Gaiman and the Brothers Grimm had a child who grew up to weave fairy tales, she would be Alethea Kontis. Read this book—it’s an absolute winner."—J.T. Ellison, best-selling author of Where All the Dead Lie "As mischievous as a garden full of fairies and twice as clever, Enchanted proves there’s more than life left in the oldest genre in the world—there’s a lot of heart, too." —Sean Williams, New York Times best-selling author "Kontis is a born spell-caster and her work is spellbinding. In the style of great fairy tales, Kontis has created a delightful, heartfelt new classic that can charm the sun out from behind the clouds." —Leanna Renee Hieber, author of the Strangely Beautiful and Magic Most Foul series "Alethea Kontis’s debut is full of inventive whimsy. Take your favorite fairytale and spin it to the side, throw in a half-dozen other tales all dancing, and you get this Enchanted ball."—Mary Robinette Kowal, award-winning author of Shades of Milk and Honey "It's the relaxed humor of Kontis' presentation that not only ups the realism of characters unfazed by talking frogs and fey characters but also gives this offering its sweet, distinctive stamp."— Booklist — New York Times and USA Today bestselling author ALETHEA KONTIS isa princess, a fairy godmother, and a geek. She's known for screwing upthe alphabet, making horror movies with her friends, and rantingabout fairy tales on YouTube. Alethea's published works includenovels, novellas, and companions in the universes of Arilland, BorderCourt,Nocturne Falls, Barefoot Bay, and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunters; the AlphaOops picture books; Haven, Kansas ; Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming ; The Wonderland Alphabet ; and Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome . Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines. Alethea's YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted , won both the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award and Garden State Teen Book Award. Enchanted was nominated for the Audie Award in 2013 and was selected for World Book Night in 2014. Both Enchanted and its sequel, Hero , were nominated for the Andre Norton Award. Tales of Arilland , a short story collection set in the same fairy tale world, won a second Gelett Burgess Award in 2015. The second book in The Trix Adventures, Trix and the Faerie Queen , was a finalist for the Dragon Award in 2016. Princess Alethea was given the honor of speaking about fairy tales at the Library of Congress in 2013. In 2015, she gave a keynote address at the LewisCarroll Society's Alice150 Conference in New York City,celebrating the150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . She alsoenjoys speaking at schools and festivals all over the US. (If forced tochoose between all these things, she says middle schools are herfavorite!) Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea currently livesand writes on the Space Coast of Florida. She makes the best baklavayou've ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.Find outmore about Princess Alethea and the magic, wonderful world in which shelives on her website, her Patreon, or follow her author page here onAmazon! 1: Fool’s Gold and Fairy Stones My name is Sunday Woodcutter, and I am doomed to a happy life. I am the seventh daughter of Jack and Seven Woodcutter, Jack a seventh son and Seven a s

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