Happily Ever After? Yeah, Right!
Retold Fairy Tales

Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling, eds. (FSF BLACK) 368p HS
A lovelorn prince...A pair of accursed red boots...A troll-killing, princess-rescuing warrior...Goldilocks' blistering tell-all memoir about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear...20 old tales with new twists.

The Rose & the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Francesca Lia Block (YA BLOCK) 299p HS
Not your parents' fairy tales: Sleeping Beauty pricks herself...with a heroin needle. Red Riding Hood's wolf? A lecherous stepfather.

The Princess & the Pauper
Kate Brian (YA BRIAN) 266p MS/HS
When a concert-going European princess & and down and out California
girl switch places for a day, everything goes haywire!

Enchantment
Orson Scott Card (FSF CARD) 390p HS
Sleeping Beauty saved by a time traveling track star?

Tam Lin
Pamela Dean (FSF DEAN) 468p HS
Janet must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover's body & soul.

Beauty Sleep
Cameron Dokey (YA DOKEY) 208p MS/HS
Aurore makes it past her 16th birthday without encountering the dreaded pricking needle, but odd things begin happening in the kingdom, and she meets a stranger in the forest...

Golden
Cameron Dokey (YA DOKEY) 256p MS/HS
Her choices can break the spell....

The Storyteller's Daughter
Cameron Dokey (YA DOKEY) 221p MS/HS
The lives of two women--and the fate of a kingdom--all depend upon the telling of a story.

Sunlight & Shadow
Cameron Dokey (YA DOKEY) 184p MS/HS
Mina & her prince must endure deadly trials before they can truly life happily ever after.

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Emma Donoghue (YA DONOGHUE) 228p HS
13 feminist & lesbian tales, where Cinderella runs off with her fairy godmother, the Beast is a woman, and Rapunzel discovers freedom in her hair...

Once Upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris (YA FERRIS) 266p MS/HS
Christian has fallen for Princess Marigold and must untangle an odd love rectangle & foil a scheming queen to save her.

Truly Grim Tales
Patricia Galloway (YA GALLOWAY) 132p MS/HS
Get the real stories here: why the beanstalk giant has to eat human bones, why the wolf is so hot for human flesh, why Prince Charming has a thing for glass slippers, & more!

Watching the Roses
Adele Geras (YA GERAS) 152p HS
Except for the frightening curse foretelling her death, Alice's life has been like a modern fairy tale. But, a brutal rape on her 18th birthday threatens to destroy her.

The Princess Bride
William Goldman (YA GOLDMAN) 308p MS/HS
Wesley must battle pirates, evil geniuses, giants, despicable kings--and even death to win his princess bride, the most perfect, beautiful woman in the history of the world....

The Witch's Boy
Michael Gruber (YA GRUBER) 377p MS/HS
Lump has known mostly cruelty & neglect. Which life will he choose: one of vengeance, or one of love?

Just Ella
Margaret Peterson Haddix (YA HADDIX) 185p MS/HS
Who knew happily ever after could be so...boring?!

The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale (YA HALE) 383p MS/HS
Princess Anidori is betrayed & must become a goose girl to survive, until she can claim the crown that is rightfully hers.

Spirited
Nancy Holder (YA HADDIX) 253p MS/HS
When Isabella & her father are kidnapped, she doesn't expect to find love with one of her captors.

The Tooth Fairy
Graham Joyce (FIC JOYCE) 320p HS
Sam has a happy, normal childhood...until he loses his first tooth!

Cinderella 2000
Mavis Jukes (YA JUKES) 208p MS/HS
As the seconds tick down to the New Year's Eve bash, will some fairy godmother appear to save the night so that Ashley can dance with her Prince Charming, or will her two little step-sisters & stepmother ruin everything?

Goose Chase
Patrice Kindl (YA KINDL) 214p MS/HS
Being beautiful & having suitors fight over you would be cool...right? How about if one's an evil king & the other's a prince who breaks new barriers for being dull?

Fairy Godmother
Mercedes Lackey (YA LACKEY) 417p HS
What do you do if your Prince is totally inappropriate? Become your own fairy godmother!

Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine (YA LEVINE) 232p MS/HS
How can a fairy's blessing be such a curse?

Fairest
Gail Carson Levine (YA LEVINE) 326p MS/HS
Aza's plain, but life is about WAY more than looks!

Ever After
Wendy Loggia (YA LOGGIA) 184p MS/HS
A prince in search of a princess, a domineering baroness & her two daughters, and an orphaned servant girl who sleeps in the ashes by the fireplace...

Snow
Tracy Lynn (YA LYNN) 259p MS/HS
With a neglectful father & an evil stepmother trying to steal her youth, Jessical has only a band of outcasts to turn to for help.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire (FIC MAGUIRE) 368p HS
We know Cinderella's story. But what about the lives & fates of her two less-than-exquisite stepsisters?

Mirror, Mirror
Gregory Maguire (FIC MAGUIRE) 280p HS
In Renaissance Italy, a wicked stepmother plots a dire fate for a young girl....

Daughter of the Forest
Juliet Marillier (YA MARILLIER) 400p HS
Sorcha must complete a silent, painful quest in order to save her brothers from an evil woman's curse.

Beauty
Robin McKinley (YA MCKINLEY) 247p HS
A Beauty who isn't. A terrible pledge. A costly sacrifice. A young woman who lives up to the name she's never called.

Rose Daughter
Robin McKinley (YA MCKINLEY) 306p HS
Can she learn to love the creature who has haunted her dreams since childhood & thus free him from his curse?

Spindle's End
Robin McKinley (YA MCKINLEY) 422p MS/HS
Sleeping Beauty: kick-butt slayer of evil fairies!

An Earthly Knight
Janet McNaughton (YA MCNAUGHTON) 261p MS/HS
If Jenny marries the king's brother, she brings great wealth & prestige to her family. So why is she drawn to the strange young man in the forest?

Beast
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 260p MS/HS
Who was Beast before Beauty found him? What act deserved such a curse?

Bound
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 192p MS/HS
Xing Xing's fate & future happiness rest solely on a beautiful carp...and her own determination.

Breath
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 260p MS/HS
Why are all the people of Hameln getting sick, when Salz remains unaffected? Is he innocent? Or the devil himself?

Crazy Jack
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 134p MS/HS
A missing father & magic beans send Jack on a quest, where he discovers love and the terrifying ends of greed & desire.

The Magic Circle
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 118p MS/HS
If she keeps far enough away from humans, perhaps she won't be forced to hurt them...

Spinners
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 197p MS/HS
Forbidden love & cruel twists of fate bring together two spinners who share a heart-breaking bond that can never be revealed.

Zel
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI) 227p MS/HS
An innocent young girl...a noble youth obsessed with her beauty...and a mother who will do anything to keep them apart.

East
Edith Pattou (YA NAPOLI) 498p MS/HS
So, a bear shows up at your door & asks you to go with him, in exchange for the health & prosperity of your family. You go. And each night, you're confronted with a new mystery.

Ducking Ugly
Neal Shusterman (YA SHUSTERMAN) 224p MS/HS
If you were the ugliest girl in town & you could use a spell to make yourself beautiful, wouldn't you? What if it meant everyone around you grows uglier as you grow fairer?

Red Rider's Hood
Neal Shusterman (YA SHUSTERMAN) 192p MS/HS
You're grandma's a werewolf hunter, you're going to infiltrate a gang of werewolves whose rivals are a gang of vampires, and instead of wanting to kil all those werewolves, you find yourself wanting to join them....

Snow White, Blood Red
Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling (FSF SNOW) 411p HS
Snow White imperiled in a terrifying future...The Frog Prince in therapy...A miniature child abandoned in a horrific city of giants...21 edge fairy tales with bite!

Beauty
Sheri Tepper (FSF TEPPER) 412p HS
A young girl with faerie blood escapes a curse and travels across time to discover her destiny...

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
Vivian Vande Velde (YA VANDE VELDE) 116p MS/HS
Why, if the daughter can spin straw into gold, is the miller so poor? What would an elf want with a baby? Six retellings that resolve all those unanswered questions.

Midnight Pearls
Debbie Viguie (YA VIGUIE) 197p MS/HS
Pearl has always been an outcast. Why is that? Why does the sea call to her? Why is she drawn to a young prince? Why does the sea sing a song of danger & destruction?

Scarlet Moon
Debbie Viguie (YA VIGUIE) 176p MS/HS
If Ruth has to fall in love, why does it have to be with someone who's cursed?

The Night Dance
Debbie Viguie (YA VIGUIE) 208p MS/HS
Should they risk their lives for a chance at love?

Briar Rose
Jane Yolen (YA YOLEN) 190p HS
What are Nazis & gas chambers doing in a fairy tale?

Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple (YA YOLEN) 192p MS/HS
Callie's stoked when she gets to interview the lead singer of the hot band Brass Rat. They're really cool, even if they give off a weird vibe. Then one night, all the children in town disappear...and Callie thinks she knows who's responsible.

Troll Bridge: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen (YA YOLEN) 240p MS/HS
Moira soooo doesn’t want to be a dairy princess & get her likeness carved in butter at the stupid state fair. She just wants to play her music…which will come in handy when she finds herself transported to a strange land, caught in the middle of a struggle for a magical fiddle between a monstrous troll & a magical fox.

Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Jane Yolen (YA YOLEN) 175p MS/HS
Rebellion in Neverland. A bridge that longs for a goat-eating troll. A dead mother's homecoming. New twists on old tales.

The Outspoken Princess & the Gentle Knight: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales
(813. 54 OUT) 237p HS
Once upon a time there was a princess who liked to wrestle, a knight who'd rather write poetry than do battle, and a seductive selkie with a mission....15 tales with a twist.

Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
(817 GAR) 84p MS/HS
"Last night I was a princess; this morning I am an ancient Viking warrior....I have over a dozen past personalities that periodically inhabit my body..."

MS = Most appropriate for middle schoolers
MS/HS = Most appropriate for middle/high schoolers
HS = Most appropriate for high schoolers

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