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Also by Jennifer Donnelly:

Where Roses Fall, August 2024
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Beastly Beauty, May 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Molly’s Letter, October 2023
e-Book
Stepsister, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Fatal Throne, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Sea Spell, June 2017
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Lost in a Book, February 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
These Shallow Graves, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Deep Blue, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Wild Rose, August 2011
Hardcover

BEASTLY BEAUTY
By: Jennifer Donnelly

Scholastic Press
May 2024
On Sale: May 7, 2024
Featuring: Arabella; Beau
336 pages
ISBN: 133880944X
EAN: 9781338809442
Kindle: B0CD3BH2VF
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult | Romance | Fantasy

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.

What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly?

That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her -- the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams.

When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault -- after all, there's nothing more "beastly" than a girl who expresses her anger -- and the only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love.

When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the curse. But Beau -- spooked by the castle's strange and forbidding ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at night -- only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves.