Children & Young Adults Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations

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Before Midnight: A Retelling of 'Cind...

Cameron Dokey

'ONCE UPON A TIME'IS TIMELESSEtienne de Brabant is brokenhearted. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second chi...

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Published: Mar 2007

Spelled

Betsy Schow

Fairy Tale Survival Rule #32: If you find yourself at the mercy of a wicked witch, sing a romantic ballad and wait for your Prince Charming to save the day.Yeah, no thanks. Dorthea is completely princed out. Sure being the crown princ...

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Published: Jun 2015

Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of 'Sleepin...

Cameron Dokey

'ONCE UPON A TIME'IS TIMELESSThe Princess Aurore has had an unusual childhood. Cursed at birth, Aurore is fated to prick her finger at the age of sixteen and sleep for one hundred years -- until a prince awakens her with a kiss. So, t...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Gingerbread Boy

Richard Egielski

'Run run run as fast as you can. You can't catch me! I'm the gingerbread man.'In this modern retelling of a nursery classic, Caldecott-winning illustrator Richard Egielski adds an urban twist to a well-loved tale. This time, the ginge...

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Published: Sep 2000

Wild Orchid: A Retelling of 'The Ball...

Cameron Dokey

'Once upon a Time' Is TimelessWielding 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 ...

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Published: Feb 2009

The Princess in the Opal Mask

Jenny Lundquist

Every Fairy-Tale Ending Has a Price. . . . Orphaned as a child in the crumbling village of Tulan, Elara is determined to learn her true identity, even if it means wielding a dagger. Meanwhile, in Galandria's royal capital, Princess W...

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Published: Oct 2013

Snow: A Retelling of 'Snow White and ...

Tracy Lynn

'ONCE UPON A TIME'IS TIMELESSThe Duchess Jessica's childhood began with a tragedy: her mother's death. Her father, heartbroken at the loss of his beloved wife, could not bear to raise the child. Largely ignored, Jessica spent the firs...

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Published: Oct 2006

Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School)

Jen Calonita

Would you send a villain to do a hero's job? 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 Ti...

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Published: Feb 2016

Revolting Rhymes

Roald Dahl

Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Master storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darkly comic twists to six favorite tales, complete w...

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Published: Sep 2009

Entwined

Heather Dixon

Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it’s taken away. All of it. The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for cen...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Grimmtastic Girls #3: Snow White Luck...

Joan Holub

Snow White might be jinxed -- but at least she has the other grimmtastic girls to count on!Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia. . .Snow White is having terrible luck. Her stepmom, Ms. Wicked, always puts her down, and is a member...

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Published: Jun 2014

Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of 'The ...

Debbie Viguie

'ONCE UPON A TIME'IS TIMELESSIn a quiet fishing village seventeen years ago, one lone fisherman rescued a child from the sea. He and his wife raised the girl, Pearl, as their own daughter, never allowing themselves to wonder long abou...

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Published: Oct 2006

Grimmtastic Girls #4: Rapunzel Cuts L...

Joan Holub

Welcome to Grimm Academy, where Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Rapunzel are BFFs -- and saving the world from the E.V.I.L. Society, one magical adventure at a time!Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia . . .Rapunzel's...

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Published: Sep 2014

A Wicked Thing

Rhiannon Thomas

Rhiannon Thomas's dazzling debut novel is a spellbinding reimagining of what happens after happily ever after. Vividly imagined scenes of action, romance, and political intrigue are seamlessly woven together to reveal a richly created...

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Published: Jan 2016

Stepsister

Jennifer Donnelly

* Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale. Isabelle is] a shattered but not unreedemable girl with a warrior's heart. --Booklist, starred review An instantNew...

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Published: May 2020

Never After: The Stolen Slippers (The...

Melissa de la Cruz

Real life and fairy tales collide in Never After: The Stolen Slippers, book two of the funny and thrilling middle grade Chronicles of Never After series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Descendants series Melis...

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Published: Dec 2022

Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy (Th...

Melissa de la Cruz

*A B&N Young Reader Monthly Pick!**Nominated for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards!*Discover a new middle-grade fantasy saga from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Descendants series, Melissa de la Cruz, where real life ...

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Published: Dec 2021

Forest Born (Books of Bayern)

Shannon Hale

The beloved and magical Books of Bayern series from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale returns with brand new covers.Rin has always been a quiet, helpful daughter and sister, but a secret is eating at her. Recently, the so...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Ant and the Grasshopper (Classic ...

Blake Hoena

In this Classic Fable in Rhythm and Rhyme, a cheerful grasshopper asks an ant to come and play. But the ant is too busy preparing for winter. What will the grasshopper do? Find out when you sing along to The Ant and the Grasshopper! I...

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Published: Jan 2018

Unhinged: Splintered Book Two

A. G. Howard

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now al...

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Published: Jan 2015

Sweetly (Fairy Tale Retelling)

Jackson Pearce

The forest invites you in . . . but will never let you go.As a child, Gretchen's twin sister was taken by a witch in the woods. Ever since, Gretchen and her brother, Ansel, have felt the long branches of the witch's forest threatening...

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Published: Jul 2012

Brothers of the Knight (Picture Puffi...

Debbie Allen

Reverend Knight can't understand why his twelve sons' sneakers are torn to threads each and every morning, and the boys aren't talking. They know their father would surely put an end to their all-night dance parties. Maybe Sunday, a ...

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Published: Dec 2001

Armadilly Chili (Albert Whitman Prair...

Helen Ketteman

'Yee haw! This Texas-style takeoff on 'The Little Red Hen' bubbles with southwestern flavor....Ketteman flavors the tale and message with plenty of pizzazz. Terry uses hot, intensely saturated, southwestern colors to spice the comedy,...

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Published: Mar 2008

Abiyoyo

Pete Seeger

No one wants to hear the little boy play his ukelele anymore...Clink, clunk, clonk. And no one wants to watch his father make things disappear...Zoop! Zoop! Until the day the fearsome giant Abiyoyo suddenly appears in town, and all th...

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Published: Jan 1994

Charmed (Fairy Tale Reform School)

Jen Calonita

Sometimes it's good to be bad...Charmed is the exciting sequel to the wildly popular Flunked-second in the brand new Fairy Tale Reform School series where the teachers are (former) villains. "Charming fairy-tale fun." ―Sarah Mlynows...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Teeny Tiny Woman: Level 2 (Easy-t...

Harriet Ziefert

A teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in a graveyard and takes it home to make soup, but changes her mind during the night.

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Published: Aug 1995

Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked ...

Serena Valentino

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...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Rose Bride: A Retelling of 'The W...

Nancy Holder

'Once upon a Time' Is Timeless When Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind. The purple blossoms serve as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her fat...

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Published: Jun 2007

Beastly Movie Tie-In Edition

Alex Flinn

Love is never uglyNow a major motion picture starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex PettyferI am a beast. A beast! Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright. I am a monster.You think I'm talking f...

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Published: Jan 2010

Previously

Allan Ahlberg

The team behind THE RUNAWAY DINNER reverses direction in this clever pastiche of fairy tales in which everyone lives happily ever . . . before."Jack was running like mad in the dark woods with a hen under his arm.Previously, he h...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2011
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