Category: Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc.
ISBN-10: 1462118364
Type: Fiction
Pages: 262
Copyright: Feb 12, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781462118366
Price: $5.38 (eBook)
Rapunzel is forced to live alone in a tower, with only her mother, Gothel, for company. Then she discovers an entire outside world, including a boy named Fane.
Told that she must be indoors at all times, Rapunzel feels trapped in the huge mansion where she lives. But when school demands to allow her access to the Internet, she discovers Facebook and becomes friends with Fane, a local teenager who changes her whole world. This story will have you entangled from beginning to end.
Excerpt
Fab Fane Fannigan: Are you saying you live at GOTHEL MANSION??? The Gothel Mansion?
RG: My mother calls it Gothel Manor, so maybe that’s different?
Fab Fane Flannigan: No, Rapunzel, there’s only one that I know of. It has to be the same. Are you telling me the truth here?
RG: Yes, of course. Is it weird that I live here?
Fab Fane Flannigan: No, not weird, just . . . never mind. So you live in the tower?
RG: Uh, the tower? I don’t know. Is it a tower?
Fab Fane Flannigan: Yes, it is. I know where it is. I’ll be there Friday at 8.
Rapunzel sensed the difference in his tone. Something wasn’t right.
Fab Fane Flannigan: Rapunzel, promise me one thing.
RG: Okay.
Fab Fane Flannigan: Don’t Google your house.
Professional Reviews
Booklist
“She’d always been told her life depended on staying in her rooms, and hadn’t thought about what lay outside her door, knowing only it had the potential to be fatal to her.” Not until her late teens does Rapunzel get a computer for her studies—and then the real world emerges for the rather clueless young beauty. Kept prisoner in a tiny apartment within her mother’s mansion, the girl believes she has an immunodeficiency disorder and would wither away in the outside world. Of course, the reader knows that Mother Gothel is up to something, what with the story’s prologue and the diabolical hints. When Rapunzel reaches out on Facebook (where else?) to the local high school, she friends a handsome student intrigued by this sheltered mystery girl and determined to get to her. A suspenseful mix of romance, adventure, and dark arts, Bennett’s fun take on the fairy tale might have been a bit more subtle with the bad guys’ missteps, but still compels readers to want to find out Rapunzel’s backstory as much as she does. Grades 6-9.
USA Today
"Fans of fairytale remixes won't be disappointed while untangling, as it were, this imaginative story."
BlogCritics.org
"A brilliant retelling of the classic fairy tale..."
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