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Carmie
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Posted: May 29 2009 at 9:23am \| IP Logged

Forgive me if someone has already written about this book. Right now, I'm reading Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George and I'm really enjoying this delightful novel. It's a re-telling of the story of the 12 dancing princesses. It's probably for those 12 and over, but it has been a gentle story so far. The King cannot figure out why the princesses are wearing out their dancing slippers every day and the princesses cannot reveal where they go every night at midnight. The main character, Galen, a gardener for the king decides to solve the mystery. Also, Mary G., I think you'll enjoy that Galen is a knitter and his knitting is important to the story!

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Posted: June 01 2009 at 1:46pm \| IP Logged

Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered a copy from the library.

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Posted: June 08 2009 at 3:34pm \| IP Logged

Regina Doman's retelling "Midnight Dancers" is also excellent, with a Catholic hero and a GREAt story. Highly recommended.

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Posted: June 09 2009 at 2:54pm \| IP Logged

So I got my copy from the library and the 16 year old, 11 year old and I all enjoyed reading it. Thanks for suggestion!

I'm off to see if my library has a copy of Midnight Dancers.

Any other recommendations for books in a similar vein? My kids like fairy tale based literature.

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Carmie
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Posted: June 09 2009 at 5:46pm \| IP Logged

I have Regina Doman's novel, but haven't read it yet. I got Princess of the Midnight Ball from the Deliciously Clean Reads blog, but I think that it is now defunct or it has become another blog. I'm not sure. There was another book that I got from that blog titled the Amaranth Enchantment which is Cinderella-like. I haven't read it yet though. I just checked Amazon and it looks like its target audience is 6-8 grade.

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