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A Song for Ella Grey

David Almond - Delacorte Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Written in lyrical prose, this novel for fans of epic romances and mythology retellings explores themes of love, loss, fate, and destiny set against the dramatic and diverse backdrop of Northern England. David Almond, recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, a Printz...
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The Poison Apples

Lily Archer - Feiwel & Friends; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

We all know the stories of Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel.  But have you ever heard of Alice Bingley-Beckerman, Reena Paruchuri, or Molly Miller?  Of course you haven’t.  Not yet.  What these girls have in common with their fairy tale sisters is this: ...
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Crazy Beautiful

Lauren Baratz-Logsted - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn't outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.Then he meets...
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Ungodly: A Novel

Kendare Blake - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

As ancient immortals are left reeling, a modern Athena and Hermes search the world for answers in Ungodly, the final Goddess War novel by Kendare Blake, the acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood. For the Goddess of Wisdom, what Athena didn't know could fill a book. That's what...
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Abandon

Meg Cabot - Point; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

New from 1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce cant help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet shes never alone...
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Avalon High

Meg Cabot - HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Avalon High seems like a typical high school, attended by typical students Theres Lance, the jock. Jennifer, the cheerleader. And Will, senior class president, quarterback, and all-around good guy. But not everybody at Avalon High is who they appear to be ... not even, as new student Ellie...
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Kill me softly

Sarah Cross - EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover

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.
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Stork

Wendy Delsol - Candlewick
Format: Audio CD

Family secrets. Lost memories. And the arrival of an ancient magical ability that will reveal everything.Sixteen-year-old Katla LeBlanc has just moved from Los Angeles to Minnesota. As if it weren't enough that her trendy fashion sense draws stares, Katla soon finds out that she's...
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The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of the Ballad of Mulan

Cameron Dokey - Simon Pulse
Format: Print book

"Once upon a Time" Is Timeless Wielding a sword as deftly as an embroidery needle, Mulan is unlike any other girl in China. When the emperor summons a great army, each family must send a male to fight. Tomboyish Mulan is determined to spare her aging father and bring her family...
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Arthur Quinn and Hell's Keeper

Alan Early - Mercier Press
Format: Paperback

The dramatic conclusion to the `Father of Lies' trilogy. Arthur Quinn is back in Kerry, having once again foiled Loki's evil plans for world domination. However, he knows that Loki is looking for his third and most deadly child, Hell's Keeper. Unable to stop Loki awakening this...
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Touch of Frost

Jennifer Estep - K-Teen; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy -- a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody's head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest. But lately, things...
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Beastly

Alex Flinn - HarperTeen

I am a beast.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....
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Nobody's Princess (Princesses of Myth)

Esther Friesner - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care of her, Helen sets out to get what she wants with steely determination and a sassy...
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Calamity Jack

Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind ... with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler...maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying...
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Tiger's Curse

Colleen Houck - Splinter; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought shed be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But thats exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spell- binding magic, and mystical worlds...
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Stitching Snow

R.C. Lewis - Hyperion
Format: Print book

Princess Snow is missing.Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back-but that's assuming she wants to return at all.Essie has grown...
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Ash

Malinda Lo - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Print book

Cinderella retoldIn the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away,...
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The Name of the Blade

Zoe Marriott - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Ancient Japanese gods and monsters are unleashed on modern-day London in this first book of an epic trilogy from acclaimed fantasy writer Zoë Marriott.When Mio sneaks the family’s katana — a priceless ancestral sword —from her parents’ attic, she just wants...
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted...
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The Legend of the King

Gerald Morris - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Sir Dinadan and his friend Sir Palomides, Sir Gaheris, Sir Terence, and other knights of the Round Table and their associates try to stop Mordred and his White Horsemen from ending King Arthur's rule of Great Britain.
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Wicked Jealous: A Love Story

Robin Palmer - Speak
Format: Paperback

A fresh and funny twist on Snow White from the author of Cindy Ella and Geek Charming! The ideal L.A. fairy tale for fans of Once Upon a Time and L.A. Candy Simone never saw herself as the "cute girl"--she was always the chunky smartmouth. But after a year of avoiding her wicked...
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Gods and Warriors

Michelle Paver - Dial
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed new series set in the mysterious, dangerous Bronze Age Young Hylas--goatherd, Outsider, thief--is hunted by powerful warriors who want him dead and have kidnapped his sister. Hylas is forced to flee his home, but not before a mysterious stranger gives him a bronze dagger....
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The Eyes of Kid Midas

Neal Shusterman

What if a seventh grader could have everything he wanted? He'd make ice-cram cones materialize out of nowhere and zap up every video game he'd ever wanted, right? But what if he was also tired of being bullied and all it took to change that was to put on a pair of sunglasses?
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What power can bruise the sky?
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The Sword in the Stone

Terence Hanbury White
Format: Paperback

The extraordinary story of a boy called the Wart - ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlin - who goes on to become King Arthur.
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