Iron Hearted Violet

Iron Hearted Violet

By Kelly Barnhill

45 ratings 77 reviews 95 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grade 6n/a5.368742
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
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780316056755
ISBN-10: 0316056758
Published on 3/18/2014
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 448

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if i get this i will just jump everyonewhere in my house and never stop this sounds like a really really really really really good book!!!

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I have not read a book yet but by its book review it sounds interesting and I will be able to share it with my sixteen year old who loves to read.

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well I haven't read the book yet ,but by reading everyone's review it sounds very interesting and tempting to just keep reading.

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I finished this book in 5 days. Long one for me, but I loved it. The story is about a young, ordinary looking princess who, with the help of her friend Demitrius unlocks a secret library in her castle and discovers the 13th god of their world - a mean spirit named Nybas. Violet and the rest of the kingdom and surrounding neighbors become spell bound by the evil god. Violet ends up making a deal to trade her oriniary looks for what she thinks a beautiful princess should be. In the end she discovers love and help from a dragon and small never before seen people to defeat the evil god and unlock the world around them. Love it!

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