num_pages: 368
description: Dolce is a monster. A giant a freak.Dolce is a princess. She walks like royaltyuntil dark shimmers make her fall.Dolce is a mamma. She has found her true family.Dolce is beautiful. But beauty cant hide the monster inside.Dolce is the Wicked One.Set in medieval Venice this captivating fairy tale retelling by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli explores belonging beauty and the transformative power of love through the eyes of a teenage girl. Dolce has grown up hidden away on an island in a lagoon. She is a giant a freak tormented by everyone but her loving mother. She spends her time learning the valuable secret of making mirrors. Following a tragedy Dolce swims away and lands on an island where people see her as normal even beautiful. Marin a kind widower and his little daughter bring Dolce to live with them in their grand palazzo. Eventually Dolce and Marin marry. She secretly continues to make mirrors not realizing that quicksilver endangers her . . . and so evil begins in innocence.
language: English
title: Dark Shimmer
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books