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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i really hope i get this book it looks really interesting! and it looks like a really good book!

I wonder if this book will relate at all to the last known dragon seen in China in the late 1800s? My daughters all like fantasy fiction dragon stories a great deal, but are not always able to find ones they like, hopefully they win this one to see if this is the one they like. Is this a series of books or eventually will be??

Awesome Awesome

It very scary

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the book is really awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think this book will be awesome and I hope I win because I love to read!!! High Hopes!!!:) :) s a hart and happy faces)

I hope i win because this book sounds mysterious <3 those kind of books

i hope i win!!!!!!!!!!!!

debrah debrah

its like im in a fairytale

this sounds like a awesome book :D

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