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The Fairy Tale Detectives

Michael Buckley - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Book

Grandmother Grimm lives in a strange town in New York State, known for it's extraordinary number of unexplained and unusual crimes. As soon as the sisters arrive, they begin to unravel a mystery that leads to their ancestors' magical beginnings. Sabrina and Daphne learn they are descendants...
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The Cottage in the Woods

Katherine Coville - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Once upon a time, there was a girl with golden locks. But that's just the beginning of this tale. The real story begins with a bear.

Ursula is a young she-bear who has come to work as a governess at the Vaughn estate. Although she is eager to instruct her young charge,...
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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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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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The Princess Curse

Merrie Haskell - HarperCollins
Format: Book

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Sylvania, the prince offers a fabulous reward to anyone who cures the curse that forces the princesses to spend each night dancing to the point of exhaustion. Everyone who tries disappears or falls into an enchanted sleep.

Thirteen-year-old...
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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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Return to Augie Hobble

Lane Smith - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Augie Hobble lives in a fairy tale -- or at least Fairy Tale Place, the down-on-its-luck amusement park managed by his father. Yet his life is turning into a nightmare: he's failed creative arts and has to take summer school, the girl he has a crush on won't acknowledge him, and Hogg Wills...
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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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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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Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

Liesl Shurtliff - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Red is not afraid of the big bad wolf. She's not afraid of anything . . . except magic.
But when Red's granny falls ill, it seems that only magic can save her, and fearless Red is forced to confront her one weakness.

With the help of a blond, porridge-sampling...
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The Castle Behind Thorns

Merrie Haskell - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book

When blacksmith apprentice Sand wakes up in a ruined castle, he has no idea how he got there, but the thorny brambles that surround the walls prevent him from leaving. As he begins to fix up the castle in order to survive, everything he touches somehow works better than it should. Then,...
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Cassie and the Woolf

Olivia Snowe - Stone Arch Books
Format: Library Binding

Caleb Woolf spots Cassie Cloak carrying a huge box of food . . . and he is very, very hungry.
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Frogged

Vivian Vande Velde - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

One should be able to say of a princess "She was as good as she was beautiful," according to The Art of Being a Princess (third revised edition) , which the almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particularly good, or all that...
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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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The Toymaker's Apprentice

Sherri L Smith - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Stefan Drosselmeyer is a reluctant apprentice to his toymaker father until the day his world is turned upside down. His father is kidnapped and Stefan is enlisted by his mysterious cousin, Christian Drosselmeyer, to find a mythical nut to save a princess who has been turned into...
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Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep (Princess Tales)

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

A spiteful fairy. A beautiful princess. An outstretched finger. A spindle. A hundred-year snooze. A charming prince. A kiss. All the familiar ingredients.But wait! Where did that extra prince come from? And those fairy gifts that were never there before? And what does a flock of balding...
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Into the Wild

Sarah Beth Durst - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

When "The Wild," a dangerous world of fairy tales, comes to collect her mother and a dark forest swallows her hometown, twelve-year-old Julie has no choice but to venture forth into the unknown where she will have to face, fight, and outwit griffins, witches, and ogres in order...
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The Thirteenth Princess

Diane Zahler - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Zita is not an ordinary servant girl - she's the thirteenth daughter of a king who wanted only sons. When she was born, Zita's father banished her to the servants' quarters to work in the kitchens, where she can only communicate with her royal sisters in secret.Then, after Zita's twelfth...
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Juniper Berry

M. P. Kozlowsky - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover

Juniper Berry's parents are the most beloved actor and actress in the world - but Juniper can't help but feel they haven't been quite right lately. And she and her friend Giles are determined to find out why.On a cold and rainy night, Juniper follows her parents as they sneak out of the house...
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Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty

Jane Yolen - Philomel Books
Format: Book

Gorse is the thirteenth 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...
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Ella Enchanted (Newbery Honor Book)

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old. At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift - the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop...
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