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Fairy Tales

Block, Francesca Lia. The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold. Nine tales retold Block style, in gritty magical realism.

Donoghue, Emma. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins. Daring retellings of thirteen tales featuring strong female characters.

Haddix, Margeret Peterson. 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.

Kindl, Patrice. Goose Chase. You'll find elements of many fairy tales in this novel--curses, spells, princes, and glass slippers. And Alexandria is locked in a tower--how will she escape?

Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. In this Cinderella story, Ella was "blessed" at birth with the gift of obedience. She must do whatever she is told. How can she break this curse?

Zel Napoli, Donna Jo. Zel. Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the points of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince.