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The Last Ever After

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A Wonderlandiful World

Shannon Hale · 320 pages

At Ever After High, everyone is expected to sign the Storybook of Legends, pledging to follow in their fairytale parent's footsteps. But when Raven Queen came along, things became fairy, fairy confusing. Now no one's destiny is certain, not even for the most royal of them all, Apple White.When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes

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Cinderella Stays Late

Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams

Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia...A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda's totally evil stepsisters are out to make her life miserable. The Steps tease Cinda, give her terrible advice about life at the academy, and even make her look bad in front of her new friends, Red, Snow, and Rapunzel! But when Cinda overhears the Step

Magic AcademyFairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFantasy
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Of Giants and Ice

Shelby Bach · 360 pages

Eleven-year-old Rory, daughter of a famous actress and a famous movie director, finds herself becoming a celebrity in her own right as she helps create a new fairy tale as a participant in the after school program, Ever After School.

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Kiss and Spell

Suzanne Selfors

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Demonglass

Rachel Hawkins

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Flunked

Jen Calonita · 256 pages

Tossed into Cinderella's stepmother's reform school for fairy-tale villains after stealing a hair clip, twelve-year-old petty thief Gilly meets fellow students Jax and Kayla, who reveal the school's true evil purpose. Book #1 When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform Scho

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Egg & Spoon

Gregory Maguire · 475 pages

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Tris's Book

Tamora Pierce · 251 pages

With the defenses of Winding Circle Temple seriously weakened by an earthquake, Tris and her fellow mages-in-training try to join their different magic powers to protect the Winding Circle community from a pirate attack.

Magic AcademyFemale FriendshipMiddle GradeFantasy
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Fairest

Gail Carson Levine · 336 pages

This is a retelling of the fairy tale Snow White. From the Author: The fairy Lucinda has once again given a dreadful gift. This time it's a mysterious magical mirror. The gift is disastrous when it falls into the hands of Aza, who never looks in a mirror if she can help it. In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza is most definitely not the fairest of them all. Many spurn her. Many scoff at her. She ke

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Miss Mabel's School for Girls

Katie Cross · 330 pages

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The Sweet Far Thing

Libba Bray · 633 pages

IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma

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The Valley of the Wolves

Laura Gallego Garcia · 247 pages

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Spelled

Betsy Schow · 344 pages

As the crown princess of Emerald, Dorthea lives a charmed life full of Hans Christian Louboutin glass slippers and Glenda Original ball gowns. But when she unknowingly wishes upon a cursed star, all spell breaks loose and the rules of fairy tale disappear--taking Dorthea's parents with them.

Fairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFantasyMiddle Grade
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The Stepsister Scheme

Jim C. Hines · 348 pages

What would happen if an author went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for his plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie’s Angels? What’s delivered is The Stepsister Scheme—a whole new take on what happened to Cinderella and her prince after the wedding. And with Jim C. Hines penning the tale readers can bet it won’t be “and they lived happily ever after.”

Fairy Tale RetellingFemale FriendshipFantasyFemale Lead
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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

Magic AcademyMiddle GradeFantasyYoung Adult
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Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code

Thea Stilton, Geronimo Stilton · 158 pages

What is the Dragon's Code? I couldn't believe it when I, Thea Stilton, was invited to teach a journalism class at the prestigious Mouseford Academy! Once I arrived, I met five amazing students. And when another student disappeared, it was up to us to help solve the mystery. Holey Swiss cheese, it was an incredible adventure! NICKY is always in a good mood when she's outdoors. COLETTE is e

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The Grimm Legacy

Polly Shulman · 325 pages

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A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow · 119 pages

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Infinite Shores

Pascale Lacelle · 592 pages

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Red Sister

Mark Lawrence · 499 pages

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stol

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Circles in the Stream

Rachel Roberts · 216 pages

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Lumberjanes Vol. 2

Noelle Stevenson, Faith Erin Hicks · 128 pages

"Five girls become instant best friends when they go to camp and discover there is a lot more to the summer than learning to how to paddle a canoe. Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types is not your average summer camp and Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are not your average campers. Between the river monsters, magic, and myths, this summer is only jus

Female FriendshipMiddle GradeYoung AdultFantasy
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Deep Blue

Jennifer Donnelly · 360 pages

Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burden - that she will someday become ruler of the oldest civilization of the merfolk. On the eve of the Dokimí ceremony, which will determine if she is worthy of the crown, Sera is haunted by a strange dream that foretells the return of an ancient evil. But her nightmare is forgotten the next day as she

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A College of Magics

Caroline Stevermer · 468 pages

Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it! But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in

Magic AcademyFemale FriendshipFantasySeries

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