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Summary: Ella is my favorite fairy tale heroine....
Review: I picked up this book after hearing a good book report about it in school, and I wasn't disappointed. It's a twist on the old Cinderella story, but with more interesting characters. Like our spunky heroine Ella (CinderELLA), a lovable prince Char (Prince CHARming), and a foolish fairy Lucinda. It starts with Lucinda placing Ella under the powerful curse of obeying every command. What follows next are Ella's many adventures like battling orges and falling in love. Read this book, it's really good! (PS..to those who have read the book...did you notice that if you unscramble Lela, you get Ella?...just thought it might be a helpful fact! :-) )
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Summary: One Of My Favorite Books--I've Read It At Least 12 Times!
Review: I love Ella Enchanted. I happened to pick it up for the first time when I was in the fifth grade, and then after reading it proclaimed it one of my favorites and later bought it.
The story is a very detailed, imaginative version of Cinderella--but if I hadn't found out it was supposed to be Cinderella, I wouldn't have known! This book is so different. Everything seems to make sense.
I've read it over and over, I read it mostly when I feel that I need courage. It gives me courage. It is a very powerful book.
Ella has to deal with everything, from loss to love, bravery to fear... But this 'Cinderella' story is surprising, because it comes with a twist: Ella is cursed. She must do whatever anyone tells her to, no matter what. The curse was a 'gift' from the odd fairy Lucinda.
The big question is, how will Ella survive with a curse like that? Can she really?
I love this book to pieces. It's a beautiful, exciting story. Ten thousand stars!
Enjoy!
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Summary: You'll be enchanted!
Review: Ella Enchanted is a wonderful book by Gail Carson Levine
about a prince, curse, evil fairy, finishing school, and more!
Ella is a girl under a curse to be obedient. Whether she has to sweep the floor, or step into a frying pan, she has to do anything anyone tells her to do. Her life is at risk at every moment.
How can Ella break the curse? Read this book to find out!
It's a Cinderella with that awesome twist! You will love it!
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Summary: A Must for any Fairy Tale Lover
Review: Ella Enchanted is by far the greatest thing I have read since Harry Potter. Re-written from the Grimm Brother's 'Ashputtle' (more commonly known as Cinderella), this classic tale has been given some new twists. Even a four old would become wrapped up in such a wonderful tale of magic, friendship and a happily ever after!
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Summary: A Romantic, Funny, child's story even adults will LOVE!
Review: Gail Carson Levine had never applead to me. I didn't think that her books would be good until my mom read Ella Enchanted to me. I was so entranced by this book every free minute I got I would beg my mom to read it to me. After we had finished I wanted to get it. For my eight birthday I got it and soon after I had it signed by Levine herself! I love this book so much that it is in the top 5 on my "favorites" list. In it there is romance, spells, wit, humor, and touching moments. Cinderella is a children's story, but Ella Enchanted, though based on Cinderella, is nothing like that. My enitire famliy loves this book, including my dad!
This book is a MUST to read, and is a very special, priceless, valuable part of my colection of books.
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Summary: A Fantasy Full of Enchantment
Review: Ella Enchanted is a remarkable book in which a brave young girl is tormented by a spell cast on her, binding her to obediance. It grows unbearable as when she grows older she can not risk falling in love with the prince she meets for she may bring him to his death through the dreadful curse. The only way to save him would break her heart and she is caught in a decision that she doesn't know how to bear.
...And at any time creatures from ogres to evil stepsisters can command her death... and she will be forced to obey.
This book is so amazing and as you place yourself in the mind of Ella you are able to gasp, groan, cry and laugh with her. This book will leave you feeling so wonderful. It's an unexplainable experience...one that you will never forget.
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Summary: Critique and Opinion
Review: Ok, to start off, this book, in my opinion, was wonderful. It was thoroughly researched, because as anyone who has read the book would know, it doesn't take place nowadays. In a far away fairy-tale world, Ella was born. At birth, a fairy who meant well put a curse on her. The "blessing" from Lucinda the Fairy was obidience. What ever someone tells Ella to do, she must do; hence in danger at every moment. If you like fairy-tales, or mythical, magical, any type of stories in that genre, you will absolutely love this. It is, again, well researched, with a spin and an unpredictable plot. I think it is a must-read. Get it today!
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Summary: Ella enchanted
Review: LUCINDA a fariy gives ella the gift of obedience , if someone told her to cut of her head or hop on one foot for a day she would have to.Ella loves the cook and spents her days with her . When ella is fifteen her mother dies and leaves ella sad and alone ,ella is a small elephant and trips on things so her father sends her to finishing school where two monstrers hattie and olive make her do things for them for friendship like picking flowers and giving them her mothers necklace .There ella hates sewing and danceing and hattie just makes her a maid, So ella runs alway and meets elfs and almost gets eaten by ogres . When ella gets home her father is poor and marrys mum olga with nasty hattie and olive soon they make her a scullery maid makeing her clean and wash and ella wears ugly dresss and olive calls her cinders. One night mum olga and hattie and olive go a ball and leave the dirty scullery maid but ella finds Lucinda and makes a wish. This a great book and very enchanteding .
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Summary: An excellent retelling of Cinderella
Review: Yeah, it's a kid's book. So what? I've recently been finding that much of children's fantasy is actually enjoyable by everyone, and this was no exception. Ella Enchanted is a retelling of Cinderella, although you might not figure that out in the first two-thirds of the book; it's only there that the story starts to compare. A fairy, Lucinda, who never follows the rules laid out for the fairy community, bestows a "gift" on Ella: she will always be obedient. She can bend commands so that her rebellious nature can play with them, but she must always follow them in some way, even if they weren't meant as commands. (An example: While running through the halls, she bumps into someone. The woman says, "Oh, go bump into someone else." Ella sighs, knowing she then has to go bump into someone else.) Her father is a merchant, not home much; her mother dies when she is a child. When her father sends her off to finishing school, that's where the real adventure begins... This book is wonderfully written, and I couldn't put it down. I don't remember the last time I read a book start to finish in one day. Just go and read this; you'll be glad you did. :)
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!
Review: For fairytale lovers, this is a must read! Basically it is a variation of Cinderella, but with so many unexpected twists and turns you don't recognize it without thinking about it. Gail Carson Levine does an exsquisite job of heaping all kinds of emotion into this book. You can't help but laugh at the jokes and cry during the goodbyes. There's the villains you love to hate and even suspense in some parts. The descriptions make you feel like you're really there - Ms. Levine describes the scenes with just the right amount of detail so you know exactly what is happenning but there's still room for you to use your imagination. If you want to read something totally different than anything you've ever tried before, read this book. It's a quick read - once you start it, you won't be able to put the book down. I'd reccomend it to everyone!
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