Fairy Tales 2.0 Teen Fiction Suggested Reading List Titles located in YA Fiction or YA paperbacks by the author’s last name The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahbieh Entwined by Heather Dixon In a land where the Caliph of Khorasan takes a Confined to their dreary castle while mourning new bride each night and executes her at sunrise, their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her 11 Shahrzad volunteers to marry him in order to sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic break the cycle and exact revenge for the murder passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes of her best friend. (Grades 8+) nightmarish . (Grades 7+) Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama Tiger Lily receives special protections from the Mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that spiritual forces of Neverland, but then she meets leads to a series of horrific murders, and present her tribe's most dangerous enemy--Peter Pan-- day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals and falls in love with him. (Grades 8+) her connection to the murders and to Syrenka. (Grades 8+) The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor Towering* by Alex Flinn When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in the alternating perspectives of three 3 whose Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can a greater evil. (Grades 7+) return and claim her rightful throne. (Grades 7+) Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy Bennett The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman Living inside the mysterious mansion, Rapunzel, A brave young queen and her dwarf companions a girl with hair 15 feet long, sets out on a quest set out to rescue an enchanted princess who is not to discover her real identity after meeting a boy quite what she seems. (Grades 8+) named Fame through Facebook. (Grades 9+) A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce Scarlett by A.C. Gaughen Upon her father’s death, Charlotte struggles to Scarlet, disguised as boy, shadows Robin Hood keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of and when a ruthless bounty hunter, is hired by the an overwhelming mortgage and what the local sheriff to capture Robin and his band of thieves, villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable Robin must become Will's protector risking his of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene own life in the process. (Grades 8+) she must decide if his help is worth the price. (Grade 8+) Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross Princess of the Silver Woods* by Jessica Day George When Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she When Petunia, youngest of the dancing princesses, finds a place where Grimm's fairy tales come to life, is ambushed by bandits, the line between enemies and she cannot avoid her accursed fate. (Grades 8+) and friends becomes blurred as she and her sisters get a chance to end their family's curse. (Grades 7+) Stork by Wendy Delsol Moving from L.A. home to Minnesota, discouraged Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix Katla discovers her identity as a member of an order In this continuation of the Cinderella story, Ella finds that determines who becomes pregnant, a power that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares that is complicated by memories of a shared mystical her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal experience with a gorgeous farm boy who seems to etiquette, so she plots to escape. (Grade 7+) hate her. (Grades 9+) Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst Having escaped from the Wild and the preordained Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge fairy tale plots it imposes, Rapunzel, along with her Betrothed to the demon who rules her country daughter, Julie, tries to live a fairly normal life, but and trained all her life to kill him, 17 year old Nyx when the Wild breaks free and takes over their town, Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move it is Julie who has to prevent everyone from being to the castle to be his wife. (Grade 9+) trapped in the events of a story. (Grade 8+) Fairy Tales 2.0, pp. 2 Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to After a werewolf kills their grandmother and sisters named for the other six days of the week, almost kills them, the March sisters devote kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back into themselves to hunting the beasts that prey on Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland--a man teenage girls, learning how to lure them with Sunday's family despises. (Grades 7+) red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas. (Grades 9+) Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison Raised as a sacrifice to protect the domed city of Savannah wants to find the perfect prom date Yuan, blind princess Isra tries to help citizens who after her boyfriend breaks up with her to date were cast out because of their Monstrous traits and her older sister, but when her incompetent fairy enlists the help of mutant boy Gem. (Grades 7+) godmother becomes involved, Savannah finds herself in trouble in the Middle Ages. (Grades 7+) Fairest by Gail Carson Levine Straw Into Gold by E. Gary D. Schmidt In a land where beauty and singing are valued Pursued by greedy villains, 2 boys on a quest to above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile save innocent lives meet the banished queen her unconventional appearance and her magical whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin 11 years voice, and learns to accept herself for who she earlier, and she provides much more than the truly is. (Grades 7+) answer they seek. (Grades 7+) A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan Huntress by Malinda Lo Rosalinda, heir to the multiplanetary corporation Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous UniCorp, is awakened after 60 years in stasis to and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of find that everyone she knew has died and as she the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is of nature in the human world. (Grades 10+) the target of a robot assassin. (Grades 8+) Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott Wendy sets out to find her missing brothers and Trained in the magical art of shadow-weaving, finds herself on a secluded California beach, Suzume, who is able to re-create herself in any where she meets Pete, Belle, Jas, and others, form, is destined to use her skills to steal the learns to surf, helps some of them steal while heart of a prince in a revenge pot. ( Grades 9+) avoiding the other's drug trade, and falls in love. (Grades 8+) Cinder: The Lunar Chronicles* by Marissa Meyer As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, Cinder, Alice in Zombieland* by Gena Showalter a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved Alice Bell must learn to fight the undead to avenge with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover her family and learn to trust Cole Holland who has secrets about her past in order to protect the secrets of his own. (Grades 7+) world. (Grades 7+) Stung by Bethany Wiggins Dark Shimmer by Donna Jo Napoli When a vaccine to save endangered bees causes In medieval Venice a giant-sized teen girl, who hides their sting to turn children into ferocious killer on a lagoon island where she makes mirrors with beasts, the uninfected build a wall to keep the quicksilver before a tragedy, is compelled to move to beasts out, but Fiona wakes up on the wrong side a land where she is seen as beautiful. (Grades 9+) of the wall. (Grades 9+) The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler Briar Rose by Jane Yolen After a boating accident takes her voice, Elyse leaves A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale finds Briar her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside Rose living in forests patrolled by the German town, where Christian, a notorious playboy, challenges army during World War II in a dark tale of the her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the Holocaust. (Grade 9+) sea. (Grades 9+) Santa Clara City Library Teen Services, 2016 .