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A Tale Dark & Grimm

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The Bad Beginning

Lemony Snicket Β· 162 pages

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Omniscient NarratorKids in DangerDark ComedyMiddle Grade
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Magyk

Angie Sage

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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir Β· 448 pages

Omniscient NarratorDark ComedyDarkSeries Starter
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La Belle Sauvage

Philip Pullman Β· 464 pages

Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy.... Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his daemon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of

Omniscient NarratorKids in DangerMiddle GradeDark
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Fairy Tale RetellingKids in DangerMiddle GradeDark Comedy
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The BFG

Roald Dahl Β· 208 pages

This book is a great book for all ages. It is a fantasy/adventure book.The BFG stands for 'Big Friendly Giant'. He isn't like other giants, instead of going out to different countries to eat children he catches dreams. When he find's a little orphan girl watching him, he kidnaps her because he doesn't want anyone to find out that he was there, but when they arrive at giant's land they become frien

Kids in DangerOmniscient NarratorMiddle GradeDark Comedy
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis Β· 178 pages

A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. Four adventurous siblings--Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie-- step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and e

Omniscient NarratorKids in DangerMiddle GradeSeries Starter
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The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo Β· 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 GradeFantasy
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill Β· 388 pages

An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her.

Omniscient NarratorKids in DangerMiddle GradeFairy Tale Retelling
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The Gunslinger

Stephen King Β· 238 pages

***The Gunslinger is the first book of the Dark Tower series. "Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read." Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, is in relentless pursuit of the man in black through his strange and desolate world that is oddly similar to our own. He enc

Omniscient NarratorKids in DangerDarkSeries Starter
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Dealing with Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede Β· 212 pages

**A well written, fast paced YA fantasy with a good sense of humour. Cimorene, an independent minded princess, runs away from home and volunteers to be the a dragon's princess, getting caught up in dragon politics, magic, and the machinations of rival wizards. This is the first book in a series of four.**

Omniscient NarratorMiddle GradeFairy Tale RetellingSeries Starter
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The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer Β· 448 pages

Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel & Gretel),

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFunnyFantasy
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Lord Loss

Darren Shan Β· 240 pages

Kids in DangerDarkMiddle GradeSeries Starter
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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud Β· 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 ComedyKids in DangerMiddle GradeDark
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Gregor the Overlander

Suzanne Collins Β· 311 pages

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Rapunzel's Revenge

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale Β· 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 GradeSeries StarterFantasy
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Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

Bill Willingham Β· 169 pages

The most harrowing epic since the inception of the series starts when Snow and Bigby's cub Therese receives a Christmas gift from an unknown admirer. This red plastic boat may hold the key to a deep, disturbing secret that will incite a series of soul-crushing events for the denizens of Fabletown. Plus, a backup feature that shows how Bigby received his fate, drawn by artist Gene Ha.

Kids in DangerFairy Tale RetellingDarkFantasy
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The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch Β· 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 ComedyDarkSeries Starter
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Coraline

Neil Gaiman Β· 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.

Kids in DangerMiddle GradeDarkFairy Tale Retelling
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Half Upon a Time

James Riley

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeSeries StarterFantasy
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Titus Groan

Mervyn Peake Β· 512 pages

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The Wide-Awake Princess

E.D. Baker Β· 288 pages

The beautiful princess Gwendolyn is a.k.a sleeping beauty when the fairy curses that she will fall asleep for a hundred years her unbeautiful sister Princess Annabelle must save the day with the help her crush Liam

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeSeries StarterFantasy
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Flunked

Jen Calonita Β· 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 GradeFantasySeries Starter
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The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

Christopher Healy Β· 438 pages

"The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch threatens the whole kingdom"--

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeSeries StarterFantasy

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