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The Tower Room

Adèle Geras (1990)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
SeriesEgerton Hall #1
Setting
CSM age13
Goodreads3.25

Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentMild
LanguageNone

Hero archetypes

Mysterious Hero

Heroine archetypes

Isolated HeroineOrphan

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age Protagonist

Synopsis

In a modern version of the Rapunzel fairy tale, Megan, who lives at a secluded girl's school where her foster mother is headmistress, falls in love for the first time with the young man her foster mother has chosen for herself.

Is The Tower Room appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

A Rapunzel retelling set in a modern girls' boarding school featuring a teen girl's first romance with a man her controlling foster mother wants. Themes of forbidden love, parental control, and coming of age with mild romantic content.

What to know going in

This book has no graphic violence, mild sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include parental control and forbidden relationship.

Who'll love this

Teens will connect with Megan's struggle for independence and her first forbidden romance in this modern fairy tale twist.

Tags

Contemporary FantasyFairy Tale RetellingBoarding School StoryRomance