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Princess Ben By Catherine
Gilbert Murdock Published by Houghton Mifflin
Company 2008 |
My gown suited me as well as I could ever hope, though
I could not but envy the young ladies who would attract the honest compliments
of the night. My bodice did not plunge
dramatically as some, and no man - no man I would want to meet, surely - could
fit his hands round my waist. What I
lacked in beauty I would simply have to earn with charm ...
Benevolence is not your typical princess -
Princess Ben is certainly not your
typical fairytale.
With her parents lost to assassins, Princess Ben ends
up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Starved and miserable, locked in the castle’s
highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical
arts: mastering an obstinate flying
broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire ...
but Ben’s private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat to her
kingdom. Can Ben save the country and
herself from foul tyranny?