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My Name Is Rapunzel

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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

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Insanity

Cameron Jace · 254 pages

After accidentally killing everyone in her class, Alice Wonder is now a patient in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. No one doubts her insanity. Only a hookah-smoking professor believes otherwise; that he can prove her sanity by decoding Lewis Carroll's paintings, photographs, and find Wonderland's real whereabouts. Professor Caterpillar persuades the asylum that Alice can save lives and catch the won

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Violet Eyes: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea

Debbie Viguie

When a storm brings the dashing Prince Richard to her family's farm, Violet falls in love at first sight. Richard also gives Violet his heart, but he knows his marriage is destined to be an affair of state, not of passion. For the king and queen have devised a contest to determine who will win their son's hand in marriage. To be reunited with her prince, Violet must compete against princesses f

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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

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Cruel Beauty

Rosamund Hodge · 357 pages

Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.

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The Thirteenth Child

Erin A. Craig · 498 pages

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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

Robin McKinley · 247 pages

A retelling of the story Beauty and the Beast. There is also a sequel available titled Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley.

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East

Edith Pattou · 509 pages

Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever. So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away wit

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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

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The Magic Circle

Donna Jo Napoli · 118 pages

Deep in the woods lives the old witch called the Ugly One. All she wants is to forget that she was once a loving mother and a healer, blessed and powerful within her magic circle, and not a witch, claimed by the devils. Then one day she hears the footsteps she dreads. Then real voices - children's voices. The Ugly One longs to take care of sturdy, sensible Gretel and her young brother Hansel. They

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The Forbidden Wish

Jessica Khoury · 340 pages

"Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master,"--NoveList.

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Unhooked

Lisa Maxwell

"Gwen is kidnapped to an island inhabited by fairies, a roguish ship captain, and bloodthirsty beasts--and she must save their Queen before it's too late"--

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The Grimm Legacy

Polly Shulman · 325 pages

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The End of Oz

Danielle Paige · 304 pages

In this dark, action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, Amy Gumm travels from Oz to the twisted land of Ev, where she fights to free Oz from evil once and for all.

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The Ugly Stepsister

Aya Ling · 452 pages

When Kat accidentally rips apart an old picture book, she's magically transported into the world of Cinderella--as Katriona, one of the ugly stepsisters! Life turns upside down now that she’s a highborn lady and must learn how to survive the social season, including how to get through the door in a huge metal hoop skirt. To get back, she'll have to complete the story, right to the end of happily e

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Book of a Thousand Days

Shannon Hale · 320 pages

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

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Snow in Summer

Jane Yolen · 257 pages

Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.

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UnEnchanted

Chanda Hahn · 226 pages

Mina Grime is unlucky, unpopular and uncoordinated, that is until she saves her crushes' life on a field trip, changing her High School status from loser to hero overnight. But with her new found fame brings misfortune in the form of an old family curse come to light. For Mina is descended from the Brothers Grimm and has inherited all of their unfinished fairy tale business. Which includes trying

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The Swan Kingdom

Zoe Marriott · 253 pages

When Alexa's mother is killed, her father marries a cunning and powerful woman and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a long, dangerous journey as she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance.

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Little Thieves

Margaret Owen · 512 pages

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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 pages

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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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Heartless

Marissa Meyer · 480 pages

Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to

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Cold As Ice

Sarah Mlynowski · 163 pages

Brrrrrr. This fairy tale is freezing! When Jonah and I land in a winter wonderland, we realize we must be in the story of the Snow Queen. This Snow Queen is super mean, and she turns our dog into an ice sculpture! And if we’re not careful…we could end up frozen ourselves!

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