The Cruel Prince
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9780316310277
Pages
370 pages
Genre
fantasy
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. As civil war threatens, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
HL760L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Adoption; Family member death; Kinship care; Step parent; adoptive father; death of a parent; death of a mother; death of a father; step father; step mother; step parents raising step children
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
step mother and step father
Awards
New England Book Award, 2018, Winner, Young Adult
Keywords
fairies; court intrigue; politics; war; prince; twins; bullying; adventure; human and fairy relations; murder
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Black, Holly, "The Cruel Prince" (2018). Diverse Families. 1480.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1480