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Six Crimson Cranes

Elizabeth Lim · 454 pages

CursesFairy Tale RetellingTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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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

CursesFairy Tale RetellingTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Leslye Walton · 301 pages

Born with bird wings into a family cursed to be foolish in love, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family's past hoping to understand her unusual nature and learn to fit in with her peers, but she is ill-prepared for what she discovers. Born with the wings of a bird and eager to be accepted by her peers, 16-year old Ava ventures into the world, ill-prepared for what she discovers and naive to

CursesMother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistFamily Secrets
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Splintered

A.G. Howard · 400 pages

Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's ***Alice's Adventures in Wonderland***. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now. When her mother's mental health takes a tur

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesYoung AdultFamily Secrets
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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh · 404 pages

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Crank

Ellen Hopkins · 537 pages

Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul---her life.

Teen PregnancyMother and DaughterYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

Natsuki Takaya · 196 pages

Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal!

CursesTeen ProtagonistFamily SecretsYoung Adult
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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.

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Shadowstitch

Cari Thomas · 400 pages

CursesMother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistFamily Secrets
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Unearthly

Cynthia Hand

Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.

Mother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFamily Secrets
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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

Young AdultTeen ProtagonistFamily SecretsMother and Daughter
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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

CursesYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFamily Secrets
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Kill Me Softly

Sarah Cross · 336 pages

When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where Grimm's fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate.

CursesFairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Finale

Stephanie Garber · 478 pages

CursesMother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistFamily Secrets
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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 RetellingTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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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 RetellingYoung AdultSeries Starter
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesMother and DaughterYoung Adult
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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck · 456 pages

The last thing teenager Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing over the summer was meeting Ren, a mysterious white tiger and cursed Indian prince! When she learns she alone can break the Tiger's curse, Kelsey's life is turned upside-down. The unlikely duo journeys halfway around the world to piece together an Indian prophecy, find a way to free the man trapped by a centuries-old spell, and discover t

CursesTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Dragon's Keep

Janet Lee Carey · 320 pages

CursesMother and DaughterYoung AdultSeries Starter
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The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 308 pages

Young Adult thriller book series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes about a classified FBI program that recruits teenagers with exceptional abilities to solve cold cases. The protagonist, Cassie Hobbes, joins other gifted teens, including a profiler and a statistician, in this program. The series combines suspenseful crime-solving with personal danger as the Naturals find themselves in a lethal game of cat a

Mother and DaughterYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFamily Secrets
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Little Thieves

Margaret Owen · 512 pages

CursesFairy Tale RetellingYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Lightlark (the Lightlark Saga Book 1)

Alex Aster · 432 pages

CursesYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistFemale Lead
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingCursesTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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