Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | YA / Teen | Standing: Senior (#4 5/6/24)

Is Arabella seen as having too much ambition? And is she too proud? And does this make a girl seem ‘beastly’? When Arabella’s parents ask that she be sweet and compliant so that she can marry well, she can’t extinguish the fire that burns within her. And when a mysterious figure one day punishes Arabella with a curse, she and everyone that she cares about is trapped inside the castle. Until a young man named Beau makes his way into the castle. Of course, the servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one who can break the curse. But Beau only wants to escape, believing that love is an illusion. Will they ever be freed from their ‘prison’?