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In If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? Lucy Norton’s father remarries, and moves to New York she finds herself living Cinderella’s life. Just like Cinderella, Lucy’s mother died, Her father got remarried, and Lucy acquired an evil step mom as well as two evil step sisters. Along with her newly acquired family, she suddenly has a list of chores, a basement dungeon for a bedroom, and moving to her new school caused made her friendless. Besides her love of basketball, art, and not listening to her stepmother tell her what to do, all Lucy can think about is the fact that Cinderella got Prince Charming.

One day sitting at her usually un-occupied lunch seat, two popular girls, Jennifer and Madison, sit down beside Lucy and start talking to each other. Jennifer and Madison’s boyfriends comes to meet them as well as Conner Pearson, the school’s basketball king, which is the most popular boy in school. Over hearing the three boy’s conversation about the outcome of the basketball game tonight Lucy sub-consciously lets it slip that she knows that L.A. is going to win. A soon as she says her point she at once regretted that she opened her mouth. Conner calms down his friends, and quickly explains why they are so passionate about Chicago, and as he turned, everyone saw that he winked at Lucy. Immediately after the small wink, she has Jennifer and Madison at her side becoming her friend.

The outcomes from the night’s game was in Lucy’s favor. L.A. won against Chicago. The next day after lunch, Lucy sat with Jennifer and Madison, her new best friends, thanks to a small wink. Jennifer and Madison tell Lucy that Conner invited her to watch him play basketball on Friday night, and then he is going to take her out the local restaurant, Pizzolla’s.

After that Friday night, Lucy experiences instant popularity from all her classmates except one. Sam Tanner. Sam was in Lucy’s art class and he clearly was the most talented artist Lucy has ever met, or seen. The fact that Lucy cannot even talk to Sam worries her. Then after they meet at an art opening, it’s the complete opposite, Sam has no problems talking with her, and Lucy finds her self day dreaming about her Prince Charming only, this Prince is not who I was expecting.

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? brought my attention to how correct a first impression based on appearance is. When Lucy moved to New York she sat off to the side and labeled as a red haired geek. But later when Connor acknowledged her, everyone’s judgement of her changes. The students at school did not know her in the beginning but just left her alone, but then when Conner talked to her the students just assumed that they knew everything about her then automatically she dropped the status of a loser. So. judging people on a first impression based on their appearance is usually wrong. The persons views, beliefs, attitude and values is what you should base your judgment on.

Melissa Kantor brings you into the modern-day fairy tale of Cinderella with hilarious ways of putting things and sarcasm to make it even funnier. I definitely would recommend this book to teenage girls.