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Whatever After #1: Fairest of All

Sarah Mlynowski - Scholastic Press
Format: Book

A fresh, modern spin on a classic fairy tale--from bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski!Mirror, mirror, on the basement wall . . .Once upon a time my brother and I were normal kids. The next minute? The mirror in our basement slurped us up and magically transported us inside Snow White's...
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The Princess and the Page

Christina Farley - Scholastic (Us)
Format: Print book

A mystical adventure about a pulls-no-punches princess and the power of her magical pen. A dark secret lurks in Keira's family. She comes from a long line of Word Weavers, who bring their stories to life when they use a magical pen. But for generations Word Weavers have been hunted...
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The Wicked Stepmother Helps Out

Tony Bradman - Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint,
Format: Hardcover

The Wicked Stepmother realizes how mean she was to Cinderella. She wants to do something to help people and make amends for her past. But trying to find the right job proves tricky, until the Terrible Ogre gives her an idea.
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Disney's Cinderella Cinestory TP

Disney Storybook Artists - Joe Books Inc.
Format: Print book

The most celebrated of all the Disney classics, Cinderella, is also known as one of Walt Disneys all-time favorite films. Cinderella has enchanted generations with its spellbinding story, charming music, and endearing characters that live in your heart forever. The beloved fairy tale becomes...
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Twice Upon a Time #3: Beauty and the Beast, the Only One Who Didn't Run Away

Wendy Mass - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Wendy Mass tells the story of Beauty and the Beast, as never heard before!When youre stuck with the name Beauty, people expect a lot from you - like beauty and grace and courage and a sense of style. But what if you have none of these things? What if all you like to do is read books and search...
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Trouble at Trident Academy

Debbie Dadey - Aladdin
Format: Print book

In this start to a new series starring Shelly the mermaid, a classroom conflict is no fun—even when school is 20,000 leagues under the sea.It’s MerGirl Shelly Siren’s first day at a new school, and she is nervous from the tip of her head to the end of her sparkling mermaid...
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The Fairy's Mistake (Princess Tales)

Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity.In The Fairy's...
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Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk

Liesl Shurtliff - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Fairy tale fans will give a GIANT cheer for this funny retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk from the New York Times Bestselling author of Rump and Red!All his life, Jack has longed for an adventure, so when giants turn up in the neighbor's cabbage patch, he is thrilled!...
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Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

Liesl Shurtliff - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This funny fractured fairy tale goes behind the scenes of Rumpelstiltskin. New York Times Bestselling author Liesl Shurtliff "spins words into gold [Kirby Larson, Newbery Honor winner]."In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's...
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A Tale Dark and Grimm

Adam Gidwitz - Dutton Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind and beyond the bread crumbs, edible...
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Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Paperback

How can a fairy'sblessing be such a curse?At her birth, Ella of Frell was the unfortunate recipient of a foolish fairy's gift--the "gift' of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it's hopping on one foot for a day and a half, or chopping off her own head! But strong-willed...
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Flunked

Jen Calonita - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Print book

Would you send a villain to do a hero's job? Flunked is an exciting new twisted fairy tale from the award-winning author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series. "Charming fairy-tale fun." -Sarah Mlynowski, author of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series.Gilly...
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Of Giants and Ice

Shelby Bach - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When Rory realizes fairy tales are the real deal at Ever After School, she embarks on a classic quest to fulfill her destiny.Rory Landon has spent her whole life being known as the daughter of a famous movie star mom and director dad. So when she begins a new after-school program and no one knows...
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Diary of a Fairy Godmother

Esme Raji Codell - Disney-Hyperion

Hunky Dory is at the top of her class in charm school. She can make flowers wilt like wet spaghetti. She can make thunder rumble like a whale's bellyache. And she can turn any prince into a frog-but she always changes them back. That's when she knows there'll be a problem
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Shadows of Sherwood

Kekla Magoon - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

The night her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley must learn to fend for herself. Her home, Nott City, has been taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown. After fleeing for her life, Robyn has no choice but to join a band of strangers-misfit kids, each with their own special...
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The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

Christopher Healy - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You've never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince...
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Tyme #1: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel

Megan Morrison - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

In all of Tyme, from the Redlands to the Grey, no one is as lucky as Rapunzel. She lives in a magic tower that obeys her every wish; she reads wonderful books starring herself as the heroine; her hair is the longest, most glorious thing in the world. And she knows this because Witch tells...
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Twice Upon a Time #1: Rapunzel, The One With All the Hair

Wendy Mass - Scholastic Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The girl's stuck in a tower. The boy's stuck in a castle. There are two sides to every story....Rapunzel is having the ultimate bad day. She's been stolen by a witch, may have a ghost for a roommate, and doesn't even have a decent brush for her hair.Prince Benjamin's...
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Grimmtastic Girls #1: Cinderella Stays Late

Joan Holub - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

The authors of the hit Goddess Girls series put a fun and girly twist on another super-popular theme: fairy tales!Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia...A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda's totally evil stepsisters...
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Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends

Shannon Hale - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

At Ever After High, an enchanting boarding school, the children of fairytale legends prepare themselves to fulfill their destinies as the next generation of Snow Whites, Prince Charmings and Evil Queens...whether they want to or not. Each year on Legacy Day, students sign the Storybook...
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Sleeping Beauty, the One Who Took the Really Long Nap

Wendy Mass - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The girls been asleep for a hundred years. The boys got issues of his own. There are two sides to every story.... Its not easy being Princess Rose. Especially when a fairy curses you and you find yourself avoiding all sharp objects . . . and then end up pricking your finger anyway, causing...
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THE SISTERS GRIMM BOOK ONE

Michael Buckley - ABRAMS
Format: Hardcover

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The School for Good and Evil

Soman Chainani - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one. Start here to follow Sophie, Agatha, and everyone at school from the beginning!With her glass slippers and devotion...
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Peter and the Starcatchers

Ridley Pearson - Disney Hyperion
Format: eBook

Don't even think of starting this book unless you're sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. Afast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peter and his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They set sail aboard the Never...
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The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales.The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book...
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The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel

Melissa De la Cruz - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Evil tree. Bad Apple?Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon to the Isle of the Lost--a dark and dreary place protected by a force field that makes it impossible for them to leave. Stripped of their magical powers, the villains now live in total...
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Half Upon a Time (1)

James Riley - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Jack lives in a fantasy world. Really. Hes the son of the infamous Jack who stole the magic beans from the giant, and hes working hard to restore his familys reputation. He finds the perfect opportunity when a "princess" lands in front of him, apparently from the land of Punk,...
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The frog princess

E. D. Baker - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Print book

After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.
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The Princess Curse

Merrie Haskell - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Merrie Haskell's middle-grade fantasy novel Princess Curse is an imaginative retelling of the fairy tales The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Beauty and the Beast. In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Sylvania, the prince offers a fabulous reward to anyone who cures the curse that forces the princesses...
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Will in Scarlet

Matthew Cody - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Will Scarlet is on the run.Once the sheltered son of nobility, Will has become an exile. While his father, Lord Shackley, has been on the Crusades with King Richard, a treacherous plot to unseat Richard has swept across England, and Shackley House has fallen.Will flees the only home hes ever...
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Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen

Serena Valentino - Disney Press
Format: Book

For anyone who's seen Walt Disney's Snow White, you'll know that the Wicked Queen is one evil woman! After all, it's not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box. (And even if this sort of thing...
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The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince

Serena Valentino - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A cursed prince sits alone in a secluded castle. Few have seen him, but those who claim they have say his hair is wild and nails are sharp--like a beast's! But how did this prince, once jovial and beloved by the people, come to be a reclusive and bitter monster? And is it possible that...
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Poor Unfortunate Soul (Villains, Book 3): A Tale of the Sea Witch (Villains, 3)

Serena Valentino - Disney Press
Format: Hardcover

The tale of the sea kings daughter Ariel is a beloved one of losing -- and then finding -- ones own voice.The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the mergirl wants more than her world can offer, and her father demands that she live within the confines of his domain....
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Princess Academy

Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Paperback

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lisa Mullarkey - Magic Wagon
Format: Book

In Lewis Carroll's classic tale of fantasy and adventure, young Alice's calm afternoon becomes rather curious when she follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole. As Alice tries to navigate through this wonderland of creatures she finds, she doesn't know who she is anymore!...
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