Fairy Tales Retold
1. Ash by Malinda Lo
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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. 
2. Beastly by Alex Flinn
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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. beauty and thtease b 
3. The Blue Girl (Firebird) by Charles de Lint
4. Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
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Summary: In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-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. 
5. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
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Grandmother reveals a terrible secret through her version of Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty and the Holocaust 
6. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
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In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is. 
7. Impossible by Nancy Werlin
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When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both. 
8. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
9. Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
10. The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
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Nine fairy tales are turned "inside out". 
11. Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
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Persephone runs off to the Underworld with Hades, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her mother Demeter threatens to destroy the earth to save her, Persephone finds a way to come back once a year, bringing spring. 
12. Snakehead by Ann Halam
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compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives, sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh destiny to fulfill. 
13. Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
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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. 
14. Tender Morsels (Hardcover) by Margo Lanagan (Author)
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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. 
15. The Writings of Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
16. Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
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Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood. 
17. Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
