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Original Title:	The Swan Kingdom
ISBN:	0763634816 (ISBN13: 9780763634810)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=Title&mode=book&isbn=0763634816&pix=n
Literary Awards:	Cybils Award (2008)

The Swan Kingdom

Zoë Marriott

Hardcover | Pages: 258 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 4665 Users | 396 Reviews

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Title	:	The Swan Kingdom
Author	:	Zoë Marriott
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	1st U.S. ed.
Pages	:	Pages: 258 pages
Published	:	March 25th 2008 by Candlewick Press (first published March 5th 2007)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Romance. Retellings. Magic

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Shadows have fallen across the beautiful and lush Kingdom. The queen was attacked by an unnatural beast, and the healing skills of her daughter, Alexandra, cannot save her. Too soon the widowed king is spellbound by a frightening stranger - a woman whose eyes reflect no light. In a terrifying moment, all Alexandra knows disappears, including her beloved brothers, leaving her banished to a barren land unlike her own.

Alexandra has more gifts than even she realizes as she is confronted with magic, murder, and the strongest of evil forces. She is unflinchly brave and clever as she struggles to reclaim what she knows is rightfully hers.

This new voice in fantasy weaves a tale rich in visual detail, peppered with a formidable destructive force, and sweetened with familial and romantic love.

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Ratings: 3.78 From 4665 Users | 396 Reviews

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This book is comfort & home to me - I love it SO SO SO much! I cannot EVER reread books, Its just never as good the 2nd time round and thats so sad but this book is one of my exceptions. Ive read it soooooo many times I literally couldnt even guess at a number.

2.5 stars. I wish I had loved this, I wish I did more than just push through so I could be finished. This had an interesting premise that followed the idea of the evil step mother, and yet the plot and characters failed to pull through. The writing was beautiful, if a bit too flowery at times, and there was real potential. But the beginning and end lacked enough energy to get me invested so I only kept reading so I could put this book down and find something else to read

Lovely retelling of the fairy tale,I enjoyed this.

The Swan Kingdom is a creditable debut, but it doesn't quite stand on its own strengths so much as the author's potential to write much better books. The narration has a strong, clear voice, and the heroine Alexandra undergoes a great deal of growth throughout the story (based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans). I especially like how even the people who seem purely good or evil to Alexandra at first often turn out to have unexpected qualities. I wouldn't exactly call it depth, since they're not

Reviewed by Natalie Tsang for TeensReadToo.comAs the brightly colored cover suggests, Zoë Marriott's novel THE SWAN KINGDOM is a fantastical read. It is the retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's THE WILD SWANS, a fairy tale that I had never heard of, but that has all the familiar bits and pieces like the evil stepmother, enchanted gardens, and animal transformations. It also has a spunky, magically terrific but socially awkward princess-protagonist named Alexandra. A few of my friends dislike

Great book I liked it as much as "Shadows on the Moon".

One thing I can say about Zoe Marriott is that she knows how to write a Prince-Charming-type character! I enjoyed her writing style whilst reading Daughter of the Flames, and the love interest she created, and since then Ive been waiting to read more of her stuff. The Swan Kingdom is loosely based around The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Anderson, but the key word here is loosely. I admit, Im not over familiar with that particular story, but from what I remember, whilst parallels between this