"The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words 'Another ... More Beautiful ... KILL'"--Amazon.com.
year: 2016
call number/section: 741.5, 1000, 741
subjects: heiresses, juvenile fiction, stepmothers, fiction, new york (n.y.), history, 1898-1951, juvenile fiction, fiction, snow white (tale), depressions, 1929, united states, graphic novels, historical fiction
Editions
Phelan, Matt
Candlewick Press (2016)
"The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words 'Another ... More Beautiful ... KILL'"--Amazon.com.
Schools: 51
Phelan, Matt
This darkly stylized, film noir retelling of the fairy tale imagines Snow White transported to a Depression-era Manhattan that is caught in the pall cast by memories of the Roaring Twenties' long-lost prosperity and glitz.
Schools: 4
Phelan, Matt
This darkly stylized, film noir retelling of the fairy tale imagines Snow White transported to a Depression-era Manhattan that is caught in the pall cast by memories of the Roaring Twenties' long-lost prosperity and glitz.
Schools: 15