The New York Times bestselling authors of Beautiful Creatures and Blue Bloods present an enchanting retelling of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden.
“Surprising and romantic.”—Book Riot
“Borrowing from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s well-known stories, Stohl and de la Cruz breathe fresh life into the narrative.”—Booklist
“A school designed for families who have a specific desire to forget they ever had children . . .”
That’s how Cedric Errol describes the Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentlemen to his best and only friends in the world, Mary Lennox and Sara Crewe. The school is as far away from Mary’s childhood in India and Sara’s family in Manila as either can imagine. Cedric’s past, however, remains a mystery, but soon a tragic reversal of fortune ties the fates of all three teens to the mercy of their monstrous headmistress. Their future seems anything but certain, until one of the trio reveals a secret—and a plan—that changes everything . . .
Writing has gotten me in and out of trouble since I was 15 (back then, mostly just in trouble.) I have written everything from video games and video game manuals to live action screenplays, as well as poetry in the UK & the US. For 10 years, I designed &/or wrote for lots of video games, one of which was nominated for 'Most Innovative Game Design,' but I lost to a rapping onion. If you know games you get why my two bad beagles are named Zelda and Kirby.
School; I spent more years in it than a person ever should, because let's face it, reading books is so much better than having a job. I fell in love with American literature at Amherst and Yale, earned an MA in English from Stanford, and studied creative writing under the late great poet George MacBeth at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I taught Intro to Film as a TA at Yale and Romantic Poetry as a TA at Stanford. Don't tell the people at Yale, but sometimes I taught the section before I'd seen the movie it was about…
I live in Santa Monica, CA, with my family, most of whom were enslaved into working with me in one form or another on my forthcoming YA book for Little, Brown. I'm not kidding; when my daughters wanted to go to school I said 'Why are you so selfish? Get back in there and edit,' and by said I mean yelled and maybe threw things, it's all a haze. I have a writing partner named Kami and she is why we ever get anything done. (Well, K and the daughter-slaves…)
And so we wrote a book this year, and it's going to come out in lots and lots of countries in a few months. And I am really, really hoping there is no hot title about a rapping onion coming out at the same time.
http://www.margaret-stohl.com
Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publishers Weekly, and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of over 70 books for readers of all ages including Disney’s Descendants, Blue Bloods, Alex and Eliza and Witches of East End (also an hourlong drama on Lifetime). Her Hallmark movies include Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe (based on her novel); Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen; Christmas in Angel Falls; and Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday. Her books are published in over thirty countries and translated in twenty languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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