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Iron Hearted Violet

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By Kelly Barnhill

Illustrated by Iacopo Bruno

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Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn’t most fairy tales…

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being, called the Nybbas, imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true–not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon-the last dragon in existence, in fact-may hold the key to the Nybbas’s triumph or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories make their own rules.

Iron Hearted Violet is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.

A 2012 Andre Norton Award Finalist

A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner

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  • A 2012 Andre Norton Award FinalistA Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner
  • "Barnhill inverts common fairy-tale notions...[and creates] the most inventive rendition of architecture since J.K. Rowling conjured Hogwarts....Poetic."
    The New York Times Book Review
  • "A splendid fantasy...layered and complex, Barnhill's story brings a modern feel to age-old fairy tale tropes."
    Publishers Weekly
  • "Storytelling plays a key role in the book, intriguingly blurring the line between what is real and what is imaginary....Triumphant."
    The Horn Book
  • "Wonderful read-aloud potential...with a likable hero and heroine, a well-paced plot, and a daunting villain."
    Booklist
  • "[Violet] is a princess for our century."
    VOYA

On Sale
Oct 9, 2012
Page Count
432 pages
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13
9780316215589

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Kelly Barnhill

Kelly Barnhill

About the Author

Kelly Barnhill is a bestselling author of books for children and adults, including The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the Newbery Medal; The Ogress and the Orphans, a National Book Award finalist; and the highly acclaimed novels for young readers The Witch’s Boy, Iron Hearted Violet, and The Mostly True Story of Jack. She is also a winner of the World Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton Nebula Award, and the PEN America Literary Award. Kelly lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children, and she invites you to visit her online at kellybarnhill.com or on Bluesky @kellybarnhill.bsky.social.

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Iacopo Bruno

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