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Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it. Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into...
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Brigid Kemmerer - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.Fall in love, break the curse.It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful...
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Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty

Jane Yolen - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

A reimagining of Sleeping Beauty from a master storyteller 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...
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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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Hunted

Meagan Spooner - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood....
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Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Julie C. Dao - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress."A richly developed fantasy world . . . Julie C. Dao is a talent to watch."...
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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renée Ahdieh - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerA sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One NightsEvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have...
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A Long, Long Sleep

Anna Sheehan - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover

Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kissLocked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten sub-basement sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew...
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Spindle's End

Robin McKinley
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning author tells a brilliant tale of a sumptuous world (New York Times Book Review). All the creatures of the forest and field and riverbank knew the infant was special. She was the princess, spirited away from the evil fairy Pernicia...
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Part of Your World: A Twisted Tale

LIZ BRASWELL - Disney Press
Format: Hardcover

What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula? It's been five years since the infamous sea witch defeated the little mermaid... and took King Triton's life in the process. Ariel is now the voiceless queen of Atlantica, while Ursula runs Prince Eric's kingdom on land. But when Ariel discovers...
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel

Gregory Maguire
Format: Paperback

[An] engrossing story...endearing and memorable.Boston Herald[An] arresting hybrid of mystery, fairy tale, and historical novel.Detroit Free PressA tale so movingly told that you will say at the end of the first reading, Its been a long time since Ive read a book this good. Nashville TennesseanGregory...
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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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House of Salt and Sorrows

Erin A. Craig - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Get swept away in Erin A. Craig's mesmerizing House of Salt and Sorrows. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Be careful who you dance with. . . .In a manor by the sea, twelve...
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The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern)

Shannon Hale
Format: Print book

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life under her aunt's guidance learning to communicate with animals. As she grows up Ani develops the skills of animal speech, but is never comfortable speaking with people, so when her silver-tongued...
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Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

Jessica Day George - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

Blessed--or cursed--with an ability to understand animals, the Lass (as she's known to her family) has always been an oddball. And when an isbjorn (polar bear) seeks her out, and promises that her family will become rich if only the Lass will accompany him to his castle, she doesn't...
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Sisters Red

Jackson Pearce - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris--the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young...
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Into the Wild

Sarah Beth Durst - Razorbill; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

When the magical world of the Wild takes over Julie’s town, she must venture deep into the heart of the fairy tale to outsmart wicked witches, feisty giants, and super cute princes in the ultimate quest to save her family. But can an ordinary girl defeat the happily-ever-after?
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A Curse Dark as Gold

Elizabeth C. Bunce - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Upon the death of her father, seventeen-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, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide...
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