When she finally gets noticed at the ball for her beauty, she is promised she will marry the prince. She’s stuck cleaning the house and being her step-mother’s servant. Can she do it on her own?Margaret Peterson Haddix's reconstruction of the Cinderella legend without the magic - how a commoner could have married the prince - is a story as richly fascinating as the classic tale. Just Ella is a retelling of Cinderella, and it’s about a girl named Ella who has all of the hard luck. And Prince Charming's beautiful face hides a vacant soul.Even as her life turns to misery, the stories persist that Ella's fairy godmother sent her to the ball: How else could the poor girl wear a beautiful gown, arrive in a coach, and dance in those glass slippers? But there is no fairy godmother to help Ella escape the deadening life of the castle.

But Ella finds Prince Charmings proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette. But after she is chosen to marry the princeno magic involvedlife with the royal family is not the happily ever after that Ella imagined. This retelling of the Cinderella story finds that young Ella, by determination and intelligence, defies her stepmother to attend the royal ball, and she captures the heart of Prince Charming. Ella dreams of going to the royal ball and marrying Prince Charming, just like every commoner in the kingdom of Fridesia. Ella's life becomes a meaningless schedule of protocol, which she fears she will never grasp. By Margaret Peterson Haddix Added May 3, 2015. Only in this story Ella takes herself to the ball, evading a wicked stepmother and sweeping. Pitiless and cold, the royals try to mold her into their vision of a princess. Just Ella is a rewritten take on the famous fairy tale Cinderella.

But after she is chosen to marry the prince, life with the royal family is not the 'happily ever after' that Ella imagined. /rebates/2fbook2f2242700402fJust-Ella&. People would rather believe in fairy godmothers.than think that you took charge of your own destiny.'Like every commoner in the land, Ella dreams of going to the ball and marrying Prince Charming.

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix