Cinderella Retold The Classic Tale A young orphaned girl is forced to become a servant in her own home to her stepmother and stepsisters. When the prince announces a ball, she is determined to go. The magic that helps her disappears at midnight, and as she flees, she leaves behind a slipper that the princes uses to find her and marry her. Middle Grade Cinderella (As If You Didn’t Already Know the Story) Barbara Ensor In this updated version of the Cinderella story, Cinderella writes letters to her dead mother apologizing for not being more assertive, which she remedies soon after marrying the prince. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location

The Rat Prince Bridget Hodder A new take on the Cinderella story, told from her point of view, as well as that of a royal rat turned coachman. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location

Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location

Disenchanted: The Trials of Cinderella (book 2 in Tyme series) Megan Morrison (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) For generations the Charming men have been cursed, but now that the witch Envearia is dead the curse should be broken. But King Clement is still nasty, Queen Maud has fled with the help of her son, Prince Dash, and Ella Coach would rather be at home sewing than living in the palace at Charming Prep school. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location

If the Shoe Fits (book 2 in Whatever After series) Sarah Mlynowski (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) On their second adventure through the magic mirror Abby and Jonah find themselves in the Cinderella fairy tale--and that is when things start to go really wrong. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla (audio), WCDPL location Cinderella Retold YA/Teen

The Stepsister’s Tale Tracy Barrett Jane cares for her mother and sister until her stepfather dies, leaving nothing but debts and Jane's spoiled stepsister behind, but a mysterious boy from the woods and an invitation to a royal ball are certain to change her fate. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla

Mechanica Betsy Cornwall A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla

The Captive Maiden Melanie Dickerson (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Gisela is determined to get an invitation to the ball being thrown for the duke's son, Valten, but meeting him may not lead to her happily-ever-after. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla

Before Midnight Cameron Dokey (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) Cendrillon and her adopted brother, Raoul, left to be raised by servants, grow up in a quiet household until the day an elegant woman and her two daughters arrive announcing that she has married Cendrillon's father and will be taking over the household. Available through: Overdrive

Stepsister Jennifer Donnelly Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla (audio only), WCDPL location Cinderella Retold

Bewitching (book 4 in the Kendra Chronicles) Alex Flinn Kendra, a 300-year-old witch, has lived through the 1666 plague in Britain, the French Revolution, and the Titanic disaster, and now she has to help a modern-day, plain stepsister. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla, WCDPL location

Princess of Glass (book 2 in the Princesses of Westfalin trilogy) Jessica Day George (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, sixteen-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location

Just Ella Margaret Peterson Haddix 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. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location, Walbridge location

It Started with Goodbye (book 1 in the It Started with Goodbye trilogy) Christina June (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) In this modern take on Cinderella, Tatum, after being falsely accused of a crime, is faced with a summer of community service under her stepmother’s watchful eye. With a flirty e- mail correspondence with a client, and a supportive stepgrandmother, Tatum’s summer begins to turn around. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla

Ash Melinda Lo 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. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location Cinderella Retold

Cinder (book 1 in The Lunar Chronicles) Marissa Meyer (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla (audio only), WCDPL location

Bound Donna Jo Napoli (Prolific Fairy Tale Author) 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. Available through: WCDPL location

Cindy Ella Robin Palmer Sophomore iconoclast Cindy Gold publishes an anti-prom letter in her high school newspaper, but when she develops a crush on popular senior Adam Silver as well as a boy she has been exchanging instant messages with, she begins to doubt her own convictions. Available through: Overdrive Vassa in the Night Sarah Porter Inspired by the Russian Cinderella story, a modern fairy tale finds a girl from a working- class section of a magical Brooklyn tapping the powers of her dead mother's protective doll to defend against the evil of a murderous owner of a local convenience store Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location

Ash and Bramble (book 1 in Ash and Bramble series) Sarah Prineas A shoemaker, called Shoe, names a seamstress with no memories Pin. Pin eventually learns they’re imprisoned by the mysterious Godmother. Shoe and Pin escape, but inevitably, the Godmother catches up to them and thrusts them into another fate. Available through: Overdrive, Hoopla

Godmother Carolyn Turgeon Lil, an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore, keeps the intriguing secrets that she was once the Fairy Godmother responsible for getting Cinderella to the ball, and that on that fateful night, something went terribly and beautifully wrong. Available through: Overdrive, WCDPL location