Disenchanted: Trials of Cinderella, written by Megan Morrison, reviewed by Kalie Mehaffy

Summary: Return to the land of Tyme to follow the story of Elegant (Ella) Coach as she struggles to find her place in her fancy new school - which she can only attend because her father married a wealthy businesswoman. As Ella struggles to find her place and tries to figure out how to implement reforms in the factories that killed her mother, Prince Dash Charming has to learn how to live now that the Charming curse has been broken. He learns that the people he calls friends are bullies and that perhaps the Kingdom of Blue is not as perfect as he thought. Ella and Dash end up paired together on a business project for school, where they fall in love, uncover a major conspiracy, and begin implementing reforms in factories - all with the help of Serge and Jasper, Ella's fairy godparents.

Straight Talk for Librarians: Disenchanted: The Trials of Cinderella by Megan Morrison does an amazing job of highlighting serious issues in a way that is digestible for students. This novel is classified as being for grades 4 to 6, however, there is a decently graphic description of a factory fire where children and workers are locked into rooms (it called to mind images of the Triangle Factory Fire), and I think there would need to be a discussion first, as some students might not be able to handle the imagery, but it is something that I would put into a middle school library. It could be used in a classroom in a lesson about alternating points of view, which this novel does extremely well, or it could be used in a lesson about societal reform. I do agree with the School Library Journal review overall, I just think this book would be more at home in a middle school library than it would be in an elementary school library.