Fairy Tales with a Twist
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Beast Looks like a beast. Acts like a beast. Yet isn't. Orasmyn is actually a Persian prince who, because of his pride in regard to an ancient ritual, angers a fairy, or pari. The pari transforms Orasmyn into a lion, which sets a powerful curse in motion. Find out who the Beast was before Beauty redeemed him. awards: Texas: Capitol Choices List 2000, Tayshas Reading List 2002 subjects: Fairy Tales, Iran |
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Beauty Sleep A young tomboy princess embarks on a dangerous journey alongside a prince only to find herself cursed when she attempts to rescue him during a battle. Their mutual love proves to be the key to her salvation. awards: ALA Popular Paperbacks 2005 subjects: Princesses, Sleep, Man-Woman Relationships |
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Bound 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. awards: Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice 2004, Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books 2004, SLJ Best Books for Children 2004, ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2005 subjects: China-History-Ming Dynasty-1368-1644, Stepmothers, Footbinding, Sex Role |
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Fairest 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. awards: Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Books: 2006, SLJ Best Books for Children: 2006, Booklist Editor's Choice: 2006, subjects: Fairy Tales, Personal Beauty, Self-Acceptance, Identity, Singing |
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The Frog Princess After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence-to become human again. Sequels: Dragon's Breath, Once Upon a Curse, No place for Magic. awards: Texas: Lone Star Reading List 2005 subjects: Fairy Tales, Frogs, Princesses, Witches, Humorous Stories |
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The Goose Girl On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. Sequel: Enna Burning awards:Lone Star Reading List 2005, Garden State Teen Book Award Nominees 2006 subjects: Fairy Tales, Princesses, Human-Animal Communication |
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If I have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? When the father of high school sophomore, Lucy Norton, remarries, Lucy finds herself tormented by two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother. subjects: Teenage Girls, Stepfamilies, High Schools, New York (N.Y.) |
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Just Ella In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape. awards: ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2000, Lone Star Reading List 2002, ALA Popular Paperbacks 2005 subjects: Fairy Tales |
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins Tales familiar to us all, with an unusual twist. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, all your fairy tale favorites, here they tell you the REAL story. subjects: Fairy Tales |
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Red Rider's Hood After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good. awards: ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers: 2006 subjects: Werewolves, Supernatural, Gangs, Grandmothers, City and Town Life, Racially Mixed People |
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The Rumpelstiltskin Problem A collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold. awards: Eliot Rosewater Award Nominees 2004, ALA Popular Paperbacks 2005 subjects: Fairy Tales |
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Snow A princess is abandoned by her father because she wasn't born a boy. Pale and lonely, she earns the nickname Snow. As she gets older, Snow must decide whether to take control of her life or remain a sheltered little girl who never grows up. subjects: Stepmothers, Witches, Historical Fiction |
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Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young-at-heart, Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. subjects: Short Stories |
List updated July 2007— Patti Cook
