Baker, Jennifer. At Midnight (Once Upon a Dream series)
Ella once led an enchanted life, until the death of her father pushed her to the brink of despair. Left alone with a cruel stepmother and two cruel stepsisters, Ella hears of a prince from a faraway land who has come to her town looking for a bride. A novel based on Cinderella, where wishes really do come true. (YA Fic  Baker)

Baker, Jennifer. The Rose (Once Upon a Dream series)
In this new contemporary fairytale, Bonnie, a sweet teenage bookworm falls captive to a hideous beast-like boy who has been cursed to live his life alone unless he can love again. A novel based on Beauty and the Beast. (YA Fic  Baker)

Blake, Lily. Snow White & the Huntsman
A retelling of the tale of Snow White, where Queen Ravenna must eat a heart to stay young and beautiful. Snow White escapes from her prison and the queen sends Eric, a huntsman, to bring Snow White back. (YA 791.4372  Blake)

Block, Francesca Lia. The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist. (YA Fic  Block)

Bunce, Elizabeth C. A Curse Dark as Gold
Upon the death of her father, 17-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse. When a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene, Charlotte has to decide if his help is worth the price. A reworking of the Rumplestiltskin story. (YA Fic SF  Bunce)

Calhoun, Dia. The Phoenix Dance
Phoenix Dance battles an illness of her mind and emotions, realizes her dream of becoming shoemaker to the Royal Household, and attempts to discover what magic compels the twelve princesses of Windward to wear out their shoes each night. Based on The Twelve Dancing Princesses. (YA Fic SF  Calhoun)

Cross, Sarah. Kill Me Softly
When 16-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. (YA Fic SF  Cross)

Dickerson, Melanie. The Healer's Apprentice
In this story loosely based on Sleeping Beauty, 17-year-old Rose, a healer's apprentice, falls in love with the betrothed Lord Hamlin, who is seeking the sorcerer who cursed his future bride. (YA Fic SF  Dickerson)

Dixon, Heather. Entwined
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish. A reimagining of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. (YA Fic SF  Dixon)

Dokey, Cameron. Beauty Sleep (Once Upon a Time series)
Aurore, a young tomboy of a princess, embarks on a dangerous journey alongside a prince, only to find a curse activated upon her the moment she attempts to rescue him in a battle. Will their mutual love prove to be the key to her own salvation? A retelling of Sleeping Beauty. (YA Fic SF  Dokey)

Dokey, Cameron. Before Midnight (Once Upon a Time series)
Cendrillon's father, grief stricken over the death of his wife, leaves his baby daughter to be brought up by servants together with an unidentified infant boy until the day, 16 years later, when a new stepmother with two daughters arrives and changes their lives forever. A retelling of Cinderella. (YA Fic SF)

Dokey, Cameron. Belle (Once Upon a Time series)
A new spin on the familiar story of Belle, a kind-hearted young woman who saves her father by agreeing to go live in the castle of a Beast. (YA Fic SF)

Dokey, Cameron. Golden (Once Upon a Time series)
Rejected by her own mother because she is bald, Rapunzel is raised by the sorceress Melisande, who loves her as if she were her own. When unrest and suspicion drive Melisande and Rapunzel from their farm, Melisande takes them to the tower where her daughter Rue has been imprisoned for years, and where she hope that Rapunzel will help to rescue Rue. (YA Fic SF)

Dokey, Cameron. The Storyteller's Daughter (Once Upon a Time series)
A retelling of the classic tale The Arabian Nights in which Shahrazad agrees to marry the king and surrender her life, but uses her story telling skills to keep the king from killing her, until a treacherous plot threatens her plan. (YA Fic SF)

Dokey, Cameron. Winter's Child (Once Upon a Time series)
After Grace rejects next-door neighbor Kai's love, he dreams of a dazzling Snow Queen, who entices him to leave home and wander to faraway lands, prompting Grace to realize how much she has lost and set out on a mystical journey to find him. A retelling of The Snow Queen. (YA Fic SF)

Dokey, Cameron. The World Above (Once Upon a Time series)
When her twin brother, Jack, disappears after scaling a magical beanstalk in an effort to reclaim their destitute family's riches, Gen enters the mysterious "Land Above" and confronts a dangerous giant. (YA Fic SF)

Donoghue, Emma. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
A collection of thirteen interconnected stories that give old fairy tales a new twist. (YA Fic  Donoghue)

Durst, Sarah Beth. Ice
A modern-day retelling of East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon in which 18-year-old Cassie learns that her grandmother's fairy tale is true when a Polar Bear King comes to claim her for his bride. Cassie must decide whether to go with him and save her long-lost mother, or continue helping her father with his research. (YA Fic SF  Durst)

Flinn, Alex. Beastly
A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. (YA Fic SF  Flinn)

Flinn, Alex. Cloaked
17-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother, who was turned into a frog. Weaves aspects of over a half dozen fairy tales, including The Frog Prince and The Elves and the Shoemaker. (YA Fic SF  Flinn)

Flinn, Alex. A Kiss in Time
16-year-old Princess Talia persuades Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away. An update of Sleeping Beauty. (YA Fic SF  Flinn)

George, Jessica Day. Princess of Glass
In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, 16-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her. (YA Fic SF)

George, Jessica Day. Princess of the Midnight Ball
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse. (YA Fic SF  George)

George, Jessica Day. Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell. (YA Fic SF)

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Just Ella
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, 15-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape. Companion book: Palace of Mirrors. (YA Fic  Haddix)

Hale, Shannon. Book of a Thousand Days
15-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her 16-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. A retelling of the relatively obscure Grimm Brothers' tale Maid Maleen. (YA Fic SF  Hale)

Hale, Shannon. Goose Girl (Books of Bayern, #1)
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. (YA Fic SF)

Holder, Nancy. The Rose Bride: A Retelling of "The White Bride and the Black Bride" (Once Upon a Time series)
When Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind, the purple blossoms serving as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her father dies and his greedy widow, Ombrine, and her daughter, Desireÿe, move in and take over the manor in true Cinderella fashion. Fate has been cruel to Ombrine and Desireÿe, too, so despite their harsh ways, Rose has compassion. These feelings are bitterly tested when, in a rage, Ombrine tears out the garden. Rose nearly gives up all hope -- until a chance meeting with the king. Happiness might be within her reach, but first she must prevail over Ombrine, and then she must determine if she has the courage to love. (YA Fic SF  Holder)

Holder, Nancy. Spirited (Once Upon a Time series)
Isabella Stevens, traveling with her father to the British stronghold of Fort William Henry in 1756, is taken hostage by handsome Mohican medicine man Wusamequin, and agrees to stay with him in exchange for her father's freedom. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast. (YA Fic SF)

Kantor, Melissa. If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
When the father of high school sophomore Lucy Norton remarries, Lucy finds herself tormented by two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother. A modern Cinderella story. (YA Fic Kantor)

Koertge, Ron. Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses
Free-verse reveals true stories behind well-known fairy tales, some reset in modern times, as a strung-out match girl sells CDs to drug users, Little Red Riding Hood admits that she wanted to know what it is like to be swallowed whole, and Cinderella's stepsisters are duped. (YA Fic SF  Koertge)

Kontis, Alethea. Enchanted
When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week, kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland and a man Sunday's family despises. A fairy-tale mashup including The Frog Prince, The Princess and the Pea, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rumpelstiltskin, among others. (YA Fic SF  Kontis)

Lanagan, Margo. Tender Morsels
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down. Reinterprets the Brothers Grimm story Snow-White and Rose-Red. (YA Fic SF  Lanagan)

Lo, Malinda. Ash
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves. Prequel: Huntress. (YA Fic SF  Lo)

Lynn, Tracy. Snow (Once Upon A Time series)
Born in a Welsh fiefdom, a young Snow flees her stepmother and arrives in London, where she is immediately rescued by a band of outcasts . Based upon the classic fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this retelling presents a heroine who is not the stuff of fairy tales and legends. (YA Fic SF  Lynn)

Marriott, Zoe. Shadows on the Moon
16-year-old Suzume, having learned how to re-create herself into any form, is determined to use her skill to make the prince fall in love with her and destroy Terayama and refuses to let her love for her fellow shadow-weaver get in the way of her plan. Cinderella reimagined. (YA Fic SF  Marriott)

Marriott, Zoe. The Swan Kingdom
After the death of her mother, the remarriage of her father to a cunning woman, and the disappearance of her brothers, Alexa attempts to restore the kingdom to its proper balance by harnessing the mystical power she inherited from her mother. Based on Andersen's The Wild Swans. (YA Fic SF  Marriott)

McKinley, Robin. The Door in the Hedge
Four stories about princesses, including two retellings of fairy tales and two new stories. All feature princesses touched with or by magic. There is Linadel, who lives in a kingdom next to Faerieland, where princesses are stolen away on their seventeenth birthdays - and Linadel's seventeenth birthday is tomorrow. And Korah, whose brother is bewitched by the magical Golden Hind; now it is up to her to break the spell. Rana must turn to a talking frog to help save her kingdom from the evil Aliyander. And then there are the twelve princesses, enspelled to dance through the soles of their shoes every night. (YA Fic SF  McKinley)

McKinley, Robin. Rose Daughter
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast. (YA Fic SF  McKinley)

McKinley, Robin. Spindle's End
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers. (YA Fic SF  McKinley)

Meyer, Marissa. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. (YA Fic SF)

Napoli, Donna Jo. Beast
Orasmyn, heir to the throne, is turned into a beast after making a foolish choice, and must find a woman to love him to undo the curse. A retelling of the classic story Beauty and the Beast, set in Persia. (YA Fic SF  Napoli)

Napoli, Donna Jo. Bound
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, 14-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. (YA Fic  Napoli)

Napoli, Donna Jo. The Wager
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, 19-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul. Based on a Sicilian story, Don Giovanni de la Fortuna, and similar to the better-known Grimm Brothers tale The Bearskin. (YA Fic  Napoli)

Napoli, Donna Jo. Zel
Zel falls in love with a young prince, and her mother tries everything she can to prevent Zel from leaving her. Adapted from the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince. (YA Fic SF  Napoli)

Palmer, Robin. Wicked Jealous
Simone Walker is used to being the weird fat girl. But when she's adopted by a troupe of fairy godmothers, she develops style and loses a few pounds. Then with the help of the seven college guys she moves in with for the summer, happily-ever-after seems within her reach. But her scheming stepmother has other plans. (YA Fic  Palmer)

Pattou, Edith. East
A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment. A retelling of the classic tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon. (YA Fic SF  Pattou)

Pearce, Jackson. Sisters Red
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son. A modern-day retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. (YA Fic M  Pearce)

Pearce, Jackson. Sweetly
When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, 18-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. A twist on Hansel and Gretel. Companion book to Sisters Red. (YA Fic M  Pearce)

Tomlinson, Heather. The Swan Maiden
Raised as a chatelaine-in-training, unlike her sisters who are learning the arts of sorcery, Doucette discovers when she is 16 years old that she too has magic in her blood, and she must brave her mother's wrath - and the loss of the man she loves - in order to follow her birthright. Melds several French fairy tales. (YA Fic SF  Tomlinson)

Tomlinson, Heather. Toads and Diamonds
Two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way. A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India. (YA Fic SF  Tomlinson)

Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales: evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In this anthology, you'll hear from the Giant's wife (from Jack and the Beanstalk), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and more. 16 authors, including Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, and Jane Yolen, present beloved stories from the villain's point of view. (YA Fic SF  Troll's)

Ursu, Anne. Breadcrumbs
Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life. A contemporary version of The Snow Queen. (YA Fic SF  Ursu)

Vande Velde, Vivian. Cloaked in Red
Eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme. (YA Fic SF  Vande Velde)

Vande Velde, Vivian. The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
A collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold. (YA Fic SF  Vande Velde)

Viguie, Debbie. Midnight Pearls (Once Upon a Time series)
Pearl, a teenaged girl who was discovered in the sea as a small child by a fisherman and treated with scorn by the villagers ever since, falls in love with James, a prince, and faces powerful forces - both human and magical - determined to tear them apart. A retelling of The Little Mermaid. (YA Fic SF  Viguie)

Viguie, Debbie. Scarlet Moon (Once Upon a Time series)
Ruth, training to be a blacksmith since her brother was lost in the Crusades, begins to fall in love with William, a young noble whose dark secret makes Ruth's trips to her grandmother's forest home much more dangerous. A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. (YA Fic SF  Viguie)

Viguie, Debbie. Violet Eyes (Once Upon a Time series)
To be united with her one true love, Violet must prove her sensitivity and spirit. A retelling of The Princess and the Pea. (YA Fic SF  Viguie)

Weyn, Suzanne. The Crimson Thread (Once Upon a Time series)
In 1880s New York, Bertie is given work as a seamstress and is able to create exquisite evening gowns overnight with the help of a man from her tenement named Ray Stalls. When Ray asks for her firstborn child as repayment, Bertie never dreams that he is serious. A retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. (YA Fic SF  Weyn)

Weyn, Suzanne. The Night Dance (Once Upon a Time series)
A knight falls in love with the youngest of twelve sisters, but they can only marry if he can discover where the sisters secretly go to dance. Inspired by the fairy tale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses. (YA Fic SF  Weyn)

Weyn, Suzanne. Water Song (Once Upon a Time series)
Stranded in World War I Belgium, Emma Pennington finds a wounded American soldier carrying vital information for the Allies and protects him from the Germans occupying her family estate. A retelling of The Frog Prince. (YA Fic SF  Weyn)

Yolen, Jane. Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The true Tale of Sleeping Beauty
Gorse is the 13th and youngest in a family of fairies tied to the evil king's land and made to do his bidding. Because of an oath made to the king's great-great-ever-so-many-times-great-grandfather, if they try to leave or disobey the royals, they will burst into a thousand stars. When accident-prone Gorse falls ill just as the family is bid to bless the new princess, a fairy tale starts to unfold. Sick as she is, Gorse races to the castle with the last piece of magic the family has left: a piece of the Thread of Life. But that is when accident, mayhem, and magic combine to drive Gorse's story into the unthinkable, threatening the baby, the kingdom, and all. (YA Fic SF  Yolen)

Yolen, Jane. Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All
Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler. (YA Fic SF  Yolen)

8/27/12
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