The Palace Chronicles: Just Ella (Series #1) (Paperback)

from AyannaRo

This book is written by one of my favourite authors Margaret Peterson Haddix. Just Ella is a Cinderella fairy tale without the magic, there is no fairy godmother to give her the glass slippers or magically send her to the ball. I think the title indicates that it was just Ella not the magical Ell...

from the1butterfly

This is, of course, a Cinderella retelling. Ella has gotten the prince and is in the castle as a princess in training, but she's finding out that being a princess is boring and tedious, her story has become a far-fetched fairy tale, the prince she's marrying is not what she'd hoped for, and that ...

from knotbox

My favorite Cinderella retelling. (Although Ella Enchanted runs a very close second---considering it's more of a departure, I can say Just Ella is my favorite without diminishing the great Ella Enchanted.)I thought the entire royal household was hilarious, several key scenes stick out--the conclu...

from melydia

What happens after the glass slipper fits and Cinderella is whisked away to Prince Charming's palace? In this story, "happily ever after" doesn't seem to be in the cards. Ella, having spent so much time as a servant, is having trouble adjusting to the tight-laced bureaucracy of palace life. Worse...

from StormRaven

I figure that the working title for Just Ella was Cinderella: The Day After, because that is pretty much what the story is about. Ella is a plucky orphan living under her step-mother's thumb who makes her own dress and sneaks to Prince Charming's ball where the prince falls in love with her, trac...