Scholastic Bookfiles: Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine
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This reading companion is perfect for students, parents, and teachers who have enjoyed and want to know more about Gail Carson Levine's award-winning novel, Ella Enchanted. Ella Enchanted is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives background on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to the story's themes, plot, characters, and setting, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved Ella Enchanted, you need this reading companion.Tags
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Embellishment, retelling of Cinderella.
Marked as children's could be YA? (Could be ages 8-12 or 11-13)
Again, retelling alters the take (think Wicked). Explains why she would stay with the mean stepmother. The human villains are rather flat though – they’re just evil and mean for no particular reason. We get explanations for ogre evil-nous, but Lady Olga is just bitchy, as is Hattie (Olive is less bad – just kind of dumb, gets picked on by her family, and seems to actually want a friend, which Ella ignores). You can read this story in a very feminist way – the evil stepmother was looking out for her children in a world where women had no power, or money and this was what they had to do. But here we’re just back to show more “Catfight!” And the bit about her friend at school seems tacked on to give the prince a convenient way to figure out she’s not really a selfish money-grubber. show less
Marked as children's could be YA? (Could be ages 8-12 or 11-13)
Again, retelling alters the take (think Wicked). Explains why she would stay with the mean stepmother. The human villains are rather flat though – they’re just evil and mean for no particular reason. We get explanations for ogre evil-nous, but Lady Olga is just bitchy, as is Hattie (Olive is less bad – just kind of dumb, gets picked on by her family, and seems to actually want a friend, which Ella ignores). You can read this story in a very feminist way – the evil stepmother was looking out for her children in a world where women had no power, or money and this was what they had to do. But here we’re just back to show more “Catfight!” And the bit about her friend at school seems tacked on to give the prince a convenient way to figure out she’s not really a selfish money-grubber. show less
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