What does it take to rule the school?
In the kingdom of Pine Glen . . .
When a teenage wizard blunders a spell that sends a real, live medieval princess to the Peabodys' house, fourteen-year-old Casey Peabody is in for a royal mess! It was bad enough attending Pine Glen Junior High with a squad of cheerleading princesses. Now suddenly Casey has to contend with a real princess of her own.
Her Highness, Princess Eglantine, is an expert at the three Ps: Prettiness, Perkiness, and Popularity-but she can't play soccer like Casey, and she hasn't got a clue about junior high! With ribbons in her hair and her nose in the air, the princess will need Casey to battle the cheerleaders . . . and though she doesn't know it yet, Casey will need the princess, too.
With laughs at every turn, this magical tale proves that you don't have to wear a tiara or be a great soccer player to be cool. It doesn't take a wizard's spell to figure it out: Confident girls rule!
Eglantine and Casey, the middle-school odd couple, make terrific narrative foils for each other, approaching almost every single situation with opposite perspectives. Their eventual warm and lasting friendship is all the more satisfying because it is so realistically hard-won. In addition, there is a well-developed
balance of lessons here: Casey and Eglantine each have valuable experiences and wisdom to pass along to the other. With renegade cheerleading, a quick save involving a soccer ball as a weapon, and an aggressively perky and pink and purple cover, this novel will attract readers even without much selling.
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
