Briar Rose
By: Jana Oliver
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9781447241096; 9781447241362
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fantasy; Fairy tales; Juvenile fiction; Sleeping Beauty (Tale); Teenagers; Fiction
Description: For Briar Rose, life is anything but a fairy tale. She's stuck in a small town in deepest Georgia with parents who won't let her out of their sight, a bunch of small-minded, gossiping neighbours and an evil ex who's spreading nasty rumours about what she may or may not have done in the back of his car. She's tired of it all, so when, on her 16th birthday, her parents tell her that she is cursed and will go to sleep for a hundred years when the clock strikes midnight, she's actually kind of glad ...