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Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Contributor(s): McKinley, Robin (Author)
ISBN: 006280345X     ISBN-13: 9780062803450
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
OUR PRICE:   $7.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
- Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 900
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.50 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 7003
Reading Level: 6.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:

From Newbery Medal-winning author Robin McKinley, this beloved story illuminates an unlikely love story--Beauty and the Beast. This fortieth-anniversary edition features a striking new package for the award-winning novel. Publishers Weekly called Beauty "A splendid story."

Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage.

When her father comes home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must travel to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father insists that he will not let her go, but she responds, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

Newbery Medalist Robin McKinley's beloved and acclaimed novel has been delighting readers for more than forty years. ALA Booklist called Beauty "A captivating novel."

"A reader feels as though it's all unfolding for the very first time."--The Guardian

An ALA Notable Book for Children

A Best Book for Young Adults


Contributor Bio(s): McKinley, Robin: -

Robin McKinley's other books include the Newbery Award-winning The Hero and the Crown; Newbery Honor Book The Blue Sword; Sunshine; Spindle's End; Rose Daughter; Deerskin; The Outlaws of Sherwood; and the short story collections The Door in the Hedge; A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories; and, with her husband, the author Peter Dickinson, Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits. She lives in England with her husband, three whippets, and over five hundred rosebushes.