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Finding your one true love can be a Grimm experience!
After her boyfriend dumps her for her older sister, sophomore Savannah Delano wishes she could find a true prince to take her to the prom. Enter Chrissy (Chrysanthemum) Everstar: Savannah’s gum-chewing, cell phone–carrying, high heel-wearing Fair Godmother. Showing why she’s only Fair—because she’s not a very good fairy student—Chrissy mistakenly sends Savannah back in time to the Middle Ages, first as Cinderella, then as Snow White. Finally she sends Tristan, a boy in Savannah’s class, back instead to turn him into her prom-worthy prince. When Savannah returns to the Middle Ages to save Tristan, they must team up to defeat a troll, a dragon, and the mysterious and undeniably sexy Black Knight. Laughs abound in this clever fairy tale twist from a master of romantic comedy.
Rallison (All's Fair in Love, War, and High School) offers hilarious mishaps from the Middle Ages and modern times as her spurned teen heroine is granted three wishes. After being dumped by her boyfriend, Savannah pines for a prince of a boy who likes the "real" her, even if she is "occasionally late and disorganized." Not so coincidentally, Savannah's magical, fair (as in so-so) godmother pops in to make her "heart's desire" come true. Disasters ensue as Savannah is swept back several centuries. Her next two wishes compound her troubles, drawing an innocent 21st-century bystander (Tristan from the track team) to the age of courtly love and dragon-slaying. They are later joined by Savannah's sister and ex-boyfriend. Confrontations with an ogre, an invincible Black Knight and an angry enchanted goat are among the trials Savannah must endure as she is taught the inevitable valuable lessons along the way. Along with its delivery of the expected moral, "Be careful what you wish for," this comedy also allows its protagonist some believable emotional growth. Ages 10-14. (Jan.)
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Daniel Deitchman
reviewed My Fair Godmother on June 09, 2009
My Fair Godmother
All little girls (ok so maybe not all, I shouldn't be making glittering generalites). Let me rephrase, most little girls dream about becoming the princess in all those wonderful fairy tales. What would happen if you had the chance to obtain that childhood wish? Our protagonist Savannah gets to find out.
Poor Savannah is having a rough time right now. Her boyfriend Hunter has just dumped her for her older sister Jane. Things aren't looking to good either to find a replacement for prom. Here enters Chrissy to save the day. Chrissy is a Godmother in training and well... it shows. Savannah is her extra credit assignment so she'll be able to enter the Godmother University. Since Chrissy grades are mediocre she can only hold the title of Fair Godmother and NOT fairy.
Things start getting messy here and of course that is where all the fun begins! At first (at least for me) the first two wishes that were granted weren't all that interesting, but later on it made sense that Savannah had to go through those wishes to be able to complete the third one. I know that doesn't make sense, but it will when you read it. The first two wishes are the warmup that lead to the real meat of the story, the third wish.
I kept trying to guess who was the black knight (I did get it but not right away). I also was anticipating when Savannah was going to switch enchantments with Tristan. I kept thinking to myself "she is going to do it NOW, no ok she's going to do it this time..." and on and on. Really good plot and plenty of funny moments to keep me laughing along the way.
I appreciated the way the author didn't make Savannah the girl who was smart in school (nothing wrong with that but we do see it a lot). Savannah may not be book smart but you never get the impression she is dumb and ditsy. You can tell she grows in the story and it's probably because she had the perfect or maybe not so perfect Fair Godmother named Chrissy to help her realize she really didn't need to wish for anything; she already had what she wanted in plain sight.
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