Ella Enchanted

By: Gail Carson Levine

at birth, ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. anything anyone tells her to do, ella must obey. another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty ella: "instead of making me docile, lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. or perhaps i was that way naturally." when her beloved mother dies, leaving her in...