Princess of the Midnight Ball: Twelve Dancing Princesses
Ebook
Overview
New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George re-imagines the classic fairy-tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, in this start to an enchanting YA fantasy series.
Rose is one of twelve princesses--sisters condemned to dance every night in the palace of the King Under Stone. Galen is a young soldier returning from war. Together they will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to attend the endless midnight balls. All they need is an invisibility cloak, a black wool chain knit with silver needles, and that most critical fairy tale ingredient--true love.
Don’t miss these other stories from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George:
The Twelve Dancing Princesses series
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Princess of Glass
Princess of the Silver Woods
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Silver in the Blood
The Rose Legacy series
The Rose Legacy
Tuesdays at the Castle series
Tuesdays at the Castle
Wednesdays in the Tower
Thursdays with the Crown
Fridays with the Wizards
Saturdays at Sea
Dragon Slippers series
Dragon Slippers
Dragon Flight
Dragon Spear
Twelve princesses are doomed to dance all night in this imaginative retelling
Great track: Jessica Day George is fast becoming a popular fairy tale author and Princess has netted over 15,000 in hardcover.
What’s old, made totally new: Jessica’s take on Grimm’s “Twelve Dancing Princesses" reflects the original touches and sense of humor she’s become known for, helping set this apart from other novels based on the same tale-as well as other fairytale retellings on our own list.
Growing the author fanbase: Jessica attended IRA in 2009 and is an active promoter in her home state of Utah.
Extras: This paperback will tease Jessica’s new novel, Princess of Glass and include an Author Q&A.
This is a well-realized and fast-paced fantasy-romance that will find favor among fans of fairy tales, feisty heroines, and dashing young men with strength, cunning, and sensitivity.
George takes another fairy tale, “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” and turns it into a rich and engaging novel.
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- Title: Princess of the Midnight Ball
- Author: Jessica Day George
- Series: Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781599907727, 9781599904559, 1599904551, 1599907720
- Resource ID: LLS:9781599907727
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:30:24Z
JESSICA DAY GEORGE is the New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Legacy series, the Tuesdays at the Castle series, the Twelve Dancing Princesses series, the Dragon Slippers trilogy, as well as Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow and Silver in the Blood. Originally from Idaho, she studied at Brigham Young University and worked as a librarian and bookseller before turning to writing full-time. She now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and their three young children.
www.jessicadaygeorge.com
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