{"title":"Illustrated by James Firnhaber","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780063303881","title":"The Princess Protection Program","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A delightful tongue in cheek twist on fairy tales and the magic school genre. Mixing the modern with the magical, author Alex London skewers popular fairy-tale tropes with a sharp wit and a loving, lighthearted touch, telling an empowering story where princesses learn to be their own fairy godmothers.” —Soman Chainani, author of \u003cem\u003eThe School for Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A slick, sly, and clever love letter to fairy tales. T\u003cem\u003ehe Princess Protection Program\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of changing the narrative to fit the person you are and not the person people want you to be. 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For fans of the School for Good and Evil and the Chronicles of Never After series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery fairy tale ends with its characters living happily ever after, right? A valiant prince quests long and hard to reach the castle where the sleeping princess lies. And with a kiss, he awakens her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what if the princess does \u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e think a kiss from a stranger is a very pleasant way to wake up? Yuck!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Rosamund flees her prince, a Door of Opportunity opens, and she steps through it to the Home Educational Academy (the HEA for short). Rosamund has found the Princess Protection Program, where fugitive fairy-tale princesses escape unwanted affections, untimely ends, and all the other perils of their stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the longer Rosamund lives in the real world, the more questions she has. Does anyone ever graduate from the HEA? 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