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The Grim Grotto

Lemony Snicket · 323 pages

Warning: Your day will become very dark – and possibly damp – if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In

Omniscient NarratorDark ComedyMiddle GradeDark
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The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo · 270 pages

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

Omniscient NarratorFairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventure
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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 448 pages

Omniscient NarratorDark ComedyDarkViolent
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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch · 512 pages

"HIGH-OCTANE FANTASY...A CREAT SWASHBUCKLING YARN OF A NOVEL." -Richard Morgan In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his tightly knit band of tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood," one part Ocean's El

Omniscient NarratorDark ComedyDarkViolent
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The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski · 352 pages

Geralt de Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer.His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good. . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. The international hit that inspired the video game: The Witcher.

Fairy Tale RetellingDark ComedyDarkAdventure
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Searching for Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 249 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA fantasy novel. Princess Cimorene, assistant to the dragon king, and Mendebar, the young king of the Enchanted forest, team up to foil the latest plots of the Society of Wizards. Book two of the Enchanted Forest series.

Fairy Tale RetellingOmniscient NarratorMiddle GradeAdventure
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The Beating of His Wings

Paul Hoffman · 494 pages

"Following the bestselling novels The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things comes the final installment of Paul Hoffman's stark, epic trilogy. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose--to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself--Cale has been hunted by the very man who made him into the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco. Cale is a paradox: arrogant

Omniscient NarratorDark ComedyDarkAdventure
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Egg & Spoon

Gregory Maguire · 475 pages

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Tress

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

Omniscient NarratorFairy Tale RetellingFantasyAdventure
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The Unusual Suspects

Michael Buckley · 290 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Unlocking the Spell

E.D. Baker · 280 pages

Now that Annie has helped her sister Gwendolyn (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) wake up from the 100-year curse by finding her beloved prince, you would think that things would get back to normal. Think again! That beloved prince, Beldegard, is stuck in the body of a bear and the only way that Annie can be free of the two irritating lovebirds is to help--by finding the evil dwarf who cast the spell. Lucki

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince

Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges · 125 pages

Jack's now a wayward Fable in the heartland of America. Follow his extreme road stories as he reveals the secret of his former relationship with the illustrious Snow Queen (when he took her powers and became known as Jack Frost).

Fairy Tale RetellingDark ComedyAdventureFantasy
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Twice Upon a Time

James Riley · 340 pages

Jack, of the village of Giant's Hand, is now accompanied by a prince as he continues trying to help a reluctant princess find her family, while also attempting to save a city full of fairies from a nameless curse.

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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A Grimm Warning

Chris Colfer · 480 pages

Conner Bailey misses his adventures in the fairy tale world, also missing his sister Alex who is training to be a fairy godmother. Then Conner figures out that a mysterious clue left by the famous Brother Grimm.... Will Conner be able to figure the answer to the clue? Read and find out!

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Rapunzel's Revenge

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale · 144 pages

Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother. Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFantasyAdventure
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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

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFantasyAdventure
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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Dark ComedyMiddle GradeAdventureDark
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Titus Groan

Mervyn Peake · 512 pages

Omniscient NarratorDark ComedyDarkFantasy
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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman · 304 pages

Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly stro

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The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

Christopher Healy · 477 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
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Inkdeath

Cornelia Funke · 720 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeAdventureDark
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Matt Dinniman · 832 pages

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend. **It is bedlam on the eighth floor.** As management reels from the unexpected conclusion of the seventh level, the surviving crawlers stumble onto the eighth and find themselves scattered.

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The Siren Song

Anne Ursu · 435 pages

Omniscient NarratorMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy

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