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• Cinderella Is Dead

  Bayron, Kalynn,

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  Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella.

• Never Look Back

  Rivera, Lilliam,

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  A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus. She fully expects the tragedy that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blanca & Roja

  McLemore, Anna-Marie

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  The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Ever Afters

  the Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother

  Teller, Danielle,

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  In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beast

  Spangler, Brie,

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  After falling off the roof, fifteen-year-old misfit Dylan must attend a therapy group for self-harmers where he meets Jamie, a beautiful and amazing person he does not know is transgender.

• In Other Lands

  a Novel

  Brennan, Sarah Rees,

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  Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl, Serpent, Thorn

  Bashardoust, Melissa,

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  Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences.

• Ever Cursed

  Haydu, Corey Ann,

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  To save her sisters from a spell that has forced them to be Without, Princess Jane of Ever must work with Reagan, the witch who set the curse on her family.

• The Forbidden Wish

  Khoury, Jessica, 1990-

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  Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master, Aladdin.

• Bound

  Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-

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  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.

• Stepsister

  Donnelly, Jennifer,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poisoned

  Donnelly, Jennifer,

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  In this adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, the huntsman follows the queen's order to kill Sophie, but the princess is brought back to life by the seven men of the woods, who, along with other brave friends, help Sophie overcome the story's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snow White

  Phelan, Matt,

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  The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beauty

  a Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast

  McKinley, Robin

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  Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

• Rose Daughter

  McKinley, Robin

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  Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.

• Beast

  Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-

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  Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast, " told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.

• Kissed

  Dokey, Cameron

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  In "Belle, " Belle attempts to save her father from a terrifying beast; in "Sunlight And Shadow, " a marriage betrothal is promised to whoever can rescue the kidnapped princess Mina; and in "Winter's Child, " Grace sets out on a dangerous mission to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rebel Rose

  Theriault, Emma,

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  Continues the story of Belle and Adam, once known as the Beast, who, soon after their marriage, must take on heavy responsibilities as rulers of Aveyon during the French Revolution.

• Hunted

  Spooner, Meagan,

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  Follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter, Yeva, who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity.

• Fairy Tale

  Balog, Cyn

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  Morgan Sparks and her boyfriend Cam have been best friends since they were children, but just before their shared sixteenth birthday Cam confesses that he is a fairy who was switched at birth with a human child, and now the fairies want to switch…Read moreRead more of this annotation