Reviewed by: Cloaked Kate Quealy-Gainer Flinn, Alex. Cloaked. HarperTeen, 2011. [352p.] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-087422-3 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-206961-0 $12.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 6-9. Although he has had plenty of run-ins with wealthy businessmen and vapid rich girls at his family's shoe store in a posh South Beach hotel, seventeen-year-old Johnny has never met a princess. That is, not until the hard-partying and über-hot Princess Victoriana of Aloria comes to stay at the Coral Reef Grand and takes a special interest in the cobbler's son. It turns out that Princess Vicky has high hopes for Johnny: the crown prince of Aloria has been turned into a frog and was last seen on a cargo ship headed to the Florida Keys, so now the princess is offering her hand in marriage to Johnny if he can make his way south and snatch up her amphibious sibling. Accompanied by his best friend (and secret admirer), Meg, Johnny sets off on a quest that has him facing off with giants, talking animals, and evil witches. Though there's nothing surprising in the plot, this is a still a diverting, whimsical romp through fairy-tale tropes that will appeal to readers of Flinn's previous fairy-tale revisions (Beastly, BCCB 10/07; A Kiss in Time, BCCB 6/09). Here the author places elements from both popular and lesser-known stories, including "The Frog Prince" (obviously) and "The Valiant Tailor," squarely in the modern world with mostly humorous results—the environmentally conscious park ranger with ambitious eBay plans and a problem with giants is particularly amusing. Johnny is a likable enough guy, and his desire to find a way out of an exceedingly boring future while remaining close to those he loves is an understandable impulse; his successful resolution of the problem makes the over-the-top happy ending entirely satisfying. [End Page 234] Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois