Ella Enchanted

Name: Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine

A middle-grade fairy-tale retelling about a girl resisting magical obedience, with romance inside the larger fight for agency.

Book note Gail Carson Levine 1997 Romance & Romantasy Young Readers

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