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No Place Like Oz

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A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow · 119 pages

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Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 176 pages

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Portal FantasyNovellaWitches & WitchcraftFairy Tale Retelling
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Ensnared

A.G. Howard · 410 pages

"Alyssa travels to Wonderland once again to free both her mother and Jeb, and to set right all that's gone wrong"-- After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves-- even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles. The only way to Wo

Fairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyYoung AdultFantasy
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World of Howl Collection

Diana Wynne Jones · 496 pages

One of the most memorable and irresistible characters in all of literature—the Wizard Howl—is introduced in Diana Wynne Jones's classic fantasy novel Howl's Moving Castle and makes guest appearances in two stand-alone sequel novels, Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways. Howl's Moving Castle was adapted into an acclaimed and Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, produced by Studio Ghib

Witches & WitchcraftFairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyFantasy
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West of Wicked

Nikki St Crowe · 320 pages

Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. She has only the vaguest memory of her life before landing in the dull, gray world of the vast Kansas prairie. Then a cyclone rips through the night and carries her, her dog, and the farmhouse somewhere a lot farther than Dorothy imagined. She’s in a strange land that’s apparently cursed, shrouded in shadow. And to get home, Dorothy needs to seek o

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Winterspell

Claire Legrand · 454 pages

To find her abducted father and keep her sister safe from the lecherous politicians of 1899 New York City, seventeen-year-old Clara must journey to the wintry kingdom of Cane, where Anise, queen of the faeries, has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime.

Portal FantasyFairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultFantasy
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Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

Cameron Dokey · 179 pages

Before Rapunzel's birth, her mother made a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande: If she could not love newborn Rapunzel just as she appeared, she would surrender the child to Melisande. When Rapunzel was born completely bald and without hope of ever growing hair, her horrified mother sent her away with the sorceress to an uncertain future. After sixteen years of raising Rapunzel as her o

Witches & WitchcraftFairy Tale RetellingNovellaYoung Adult
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The Enchantress Returns

Chris Colfer · 448 pages

Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother! Against the will of their grandmother, the twins must find their own way into. The Land of Stories is no longer the joyful world Alex and Conner Bailey remember from their Wishing Spell adventure: The

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My Fair Godmother (Godmother, Book 1)

Janette Rallison · 320 pages

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The Hazel Wood

Melissa Albert · 368 pages

When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.

Fairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyYoung AdultFantasy
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The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor · 376 pages

Portal FantasyFairy Tale RetellingFantasyYoung Adult
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The Witch of Duva

Leigh Bardugo · 48 pages

There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls…or so the story goes. But it's just possible that the danger may be a little bit closer to home. This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh Bardugo's debut novel, Shadow and Bone.

Fairy Tale RetellingNovellaYoung AdultFantasy
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Sweetly

Jackson Pearce

When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, eighteen-year-old Gretchen's haunted childhood memories of her twin sister's abduction by a witch-like monster begin to fade until girls start vanishing at the annual chocolate festival.

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftYoung AdultFantasy
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Dreaming Anastasia

Joy Preble · 310 pages

In alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Chicagoan Anne and handsome, magical Ethan tell of their fated quest to rescue Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia, who tells of her long captivity in the hut of legendary witch Baba Yaga.

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftYoung AdultFantasy
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The Neverland Wars

Audrey Greathouse · 302 pages

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Mirrored

Alex Flinn · 387 pages

A modern, multi-generational tale of Kendra, the witch from "Snow White," who trains Violet, an ugly, lonely, and heartbroken girl in the 1980s who transforms herself into "the fairest one of all" but still cannot win Greg's heart, and Celine, Greg's daughter with Violet's high school rival, Jennifer.

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftYoung AdultFantasy
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The Golden Yarn

Cornelia Funke · 448 pages

Baba Jagas, Kosaken, Spione und ein Zar, der zu Audienzen in Begleitung eines Bären kommt. Diesmal führt die Reise hinter dem Spiegel Fuchs und Jacob weit nach Osten. Auch Will kehrt zurück in die Welt, die ihm eine Haut aus Jade gab - auf der Spur der Dunklen Fee. Aber den Zweck der Reise bestimmt ein anderer: der Erlelf hat den Handel nicht vergessen, den Jacob im Labyrinth des Blaubarts mit ihm

Fairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyFantasyYoung Adult
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Lost Girl

Chanda Hahn · 332 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyYoung AdultFantasy
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The Seventh Bride

T. Kingfisher · 226 pages

Rhea is an ordinary miller’s daughter, engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances to a man not of her choosing. He has unknown powers and a manor house full of mysterious women. Rhea has a hedgehog. It claims to be ordinary, but normal hedgehogs don’t act like that. It’s probably not going to be enough.

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftFantasyNovella
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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"--

Fairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyYoung AdultFantasy
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Another Pan

Daniel Nayeri, Dina Nayeri

While attending an elite prep school where their father is a professor, Wendy and John Darling discover a book which opens the door to other worlds, to Egyptian myths long thought impossible, and to the home of an age-old darkness.

Fairy Tale RetellingPortal FantasyYoung AdultFantasy
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Scarlet Moon: A Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood

Debbie Viguie · 157 pages

Ruth's grandmother lives in the forest, banished there for the "evil" that the townsfolk believed she practiced. But if studying the stars, learning about nature, and dreaming of flying is evil, then Ruth is guilty of it too. Whenever Ruth took food and supplies to her grandmother, she would sit with the old woman for hours, listening and learning. When she wasn't in the woods, Ruth was learnin

Fairy Tale RetellingNovellaYoung AdultFantasy
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Fairest

Marissa Meyer · 384 pages

In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told. Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all? Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a s

Fairy Tale RetellingNovellaYoung AdultFantasy

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