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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 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.

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesQuest Narrative
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Cloaked

Alex Flinn · 368 pages

Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesPrinces and PrincessesQuest Narrative
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Spindle's End

Robin McKinley · 422 pages

The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesLyrical Prose
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Beast

Donna Jo Napoli · 272 pages

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesYoung Adult
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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh · 416 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesLyrical ProseYoung Adult
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Once Upon a Broken Heart

Stephanie Garber · 416 pages

***How far would you go for happily ever after?*** For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kiss

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesLyrical Prose
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Fearless

Cornelia Funke · 429 pages

"Jacob Reckless journeys to the Mirrorworld to tell his shapeshifting friend Fox that a fairy curse--a deadly moth in his chest--means he has only one year to live. The journey in Mirrorworld turns into a search against time and against a Goyl treasure hunter for an enchanted crossbow, which is known to strike down any army it faces, and less well known for its healing power when shot by a loved o

CursesFairy Tale RetellingQuest NarrativeYoung Adult
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesQuest NarrativePrinces and Princesses
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Among the Beasts & Briars

Ashley Poston · 342 pages

CursesQuest NarrativeFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and Princesses
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesQuest NarrativeLyrical Prose
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A Gathering of Gargoyles

Meredith Ann Pierce · 283 pages

Painfully aware that her husband Irrylath is still not free of the White Witch's spell, Aeriel sets out on a dangerous quest to gather the winged steeds that Irrylath and his brothers need to do battle against the powerful witch.

CursesQuest NarrativeLyrical ProseYoung Adult
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The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle · 233 pages

*The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone…* …so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch—and confronting

CursesPrinces and PrincessesQuest NarrativeLyrical Prose
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Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty

Cameron Dokey · 186 pages

The Princess Aurore has had an unusual childhood. Cursed at birth, Aurore is fated to prick her finger at the age of sixteen and sleep for one hundred years -- until a prince awakens her with a kiss. So, to protect her, Aurore's loving parents forbid any task requiring a needle. Unable to sew or embroider like most little princesses, Aurore instead explores the castle grounds and beyond, where

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesYoung Adult
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Ash & Bramble

Sarah Prineas · 464 pages

After Pin and Shoe escape from servitude in the Godmother's fortress, they learn that she has taken control of Story, which can warp the world around it, forcing people into its shape, and they decide to try to break out and create their own destinies in this tale that features many familiar characters.

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesQuest NarrativeFantasy
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Princess of the Silver Woods

Jessica Day George · 337 pages

When Petunia, youngest of the dancing princesses, is ambushed by bandits in wolf masks on her way to visit an elderly neighbor, the line between enemies and friends becomes blurred as she and her sisters get a chance to end their family's curse once and for all.

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesPrinces and PrincessesFantasy
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The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince

Serena Valentino · 235 pages

Presents an adaptation of the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale from the perspective of the cursed prince who is transformed from a beloved and jovial ruler into a reclusive and bitter monster in search of true love. This adaptation of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST explores what transformed the Prince into the Beast. The plot contains mild violence.

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesFantasy
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Once Upon a Dream

Liz Braswell · 448 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesPrinces and PrincessesYoung Adult
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The Black Swan

Mercedes Lackey · 402 pages

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesFantasy
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan · 503 pages

Quest NarrativePrinces and PrincessesCursesLyrical Prose
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The Star-Touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi · 355 pages

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political conve

CursesPrinces and PrincessesLyrical ProseFantasy
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Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Slayer

Maureen McGowan · 330 pages

In this twist on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, Princess Lucette, cursed as a baby by her evil vampire aunt, discovers as she grows older that the only way to protect herself and her kingdom is to train as a vampire slayer. The reader is given chances throughout the text to choose the direction of the plot.

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesPrinces and PrincessesYoung Adult
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Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine · 240 pages

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old.  At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift—the “gift” of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop off her own head! But strong-willed Ella does not accept her fate... Against a bold backdrop of princes, ogres, g

CursesFairy Tale RetellingPrinces and PrincessesQuest Narrative
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Hunted

Meagan Spooner · 387 pages

Beauty knows the Beast s forest in her bones and in her blood. She knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who s ever come close to discovering them. But Yeva s grown up far from her father s old lodge, raised to be part of the city s highest caste of artistocrats. Still, she s never forgotten the feel of a bow in her hands, and she s spent a lifetime longing for

CursesFairy Tale RetellingLyrical ProseYoung Adult

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