Series
The Palace Chronicles
Margaret Peterson Haddix · 3 novels · 1999–2015
Margaret Peterson Haddix's Palace Chronicles opens with Just Ella (1999), a feminist retelling of Cinderella that follows Ella after her fairy-tale wedding, questioning what 'happily ever after' really means. The companion novel Palace of Mirrors shifts to a new heroine, Cecilia, a peasant girl secretly raised as the true princess who must reclaim her throne from an impostor, and Palace of Lies continues the loosely linked series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Palace Chronicles at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
Shape
3 novels
1 author
reads like:fantasyidentitysecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousmiddle grade
Mood
Bright and intense: 33% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Palace of Liesdarkest · most intense
- Just Ellabrightest · calmest