Iron Hearted Violet
Iron Hearted Violet

Iron Hearted Violet

Written by Kelly Barnhill & illustrated by Iacopo Bruno
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8 - 12
Reading age
448
Page count
153
Words per page
~829L
Lexile measure
Mar 18, 2014
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Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn’t most fairy tales… Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being, called the Nybbas, imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true–not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon-the last dragon in existence, in fact-may hold the key to the Nybbas’s triumph or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories make their own rules. Iron Hearted Violet is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom. A 2012 Andre Norton Award Finalist A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner

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      Author
      Kelly Barnhill

      Kelly Barnhill lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children. She is the author of four novels, most recently The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal. She is also the winner of the World Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, a Nebula Award, and the PEN/USA literary prize. Visit her online at kellybarnhill.com or on Twitter: @kellybarnhill.

      Illustrator
      Iacopo Bruno

      Iacopo Bruno is an illustrator and graphic designer living in Milan, Italy.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780316056755
    Publication Date
    March 18, 2014
    Publisher
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
    Original Publication Date
    October 9, 2012
    Page Count
    448
    Words Per Page
    153
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Est. Lexile® Level
    ~829L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~T
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.3
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    11
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    155950
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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