This month’s selection is a new book by Shannon Hale, author of 2006 Newbery Honor Princess Academy. Book of a Thousand Days is a reworking of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. A young lady is bricked up in a tower with her maid as punishment for rejecting her father’s choice of a suitor for her. Only her maid’s will keeps them alive, sane, and able to escape after they are abandoned. Dashti keeps a record of their existence during these times and beyond.

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