Ella Enchanted
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Brenna and Joe stumble into a fairy tale world that compels them to do everything they\'re told...so long as it\'s compare Gale Carson Levine\'s 1997 Ella Enchanted and Tommy O\'Haver\'s over-the-top wacky 2004 adaptation, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this week!
The book proves to be a good example of how straightforward and non-subversive books for young adults were in the 90s, while the film makes good use of a game Anne Hathaway\'s capacity for physical comedy, but goes over board on extra characters and bad CGI. Plus: come for the discussion about misused WOC and stay for the jokes about how uncomfortable Hugh Dancy looks!
In homework: Brenna recommends unreliable narrator book A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel while Joe has high hopes for Kai Cheng Thom\'s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl\'s Confabulous Memoir.
Other Trans and Non-Binary YA Lit recommendations: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard
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