Baratz-Logsted, Lauren.  Crazy Beautiful.  Y FIC Baratz-Logsted
In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.

Block, Francesca Lia. The rose and the beast : fairy tales retold.  Y FIC Block
Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.

Flinn, Alex.  Cloaked.  Y FIC Flinn
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

Geras, Adèle.  The Tower Room. Y FIC Geras
Living at the secluded girls' school where her foster mother is headmistress, Megan falls in love for the first time, with the young man her foster mother has chosen for herself. (Rapunzel)

Geras, Adèle.  Watching the roses. Y FIC Geras
After being raped at her eighteenth birthday party, an English girl, whose life resembles a modern version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, withdraws into silent thoughts of her unusual family and the events that led to her trauma.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson . Just Ella.  Y FIC 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.

Kindl, Patrice . Goose chase : a novel. Y FIC Kindl
Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is.

Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted.  Y FIC Levine
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.

Levine, Gail Carson.  Fairest . Y FIC Levine
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.

McKinley, Robin. Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast. Y FIC McKinley // Y PB M
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.

McKinley, Robin. Rose daughter.  Y FIC McKinley
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.

McKinley, Robin. Spindle's end. Y FIC McKinley
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.

Maguire, Gregory. Confessions of an ugly stepsister. Fic Maguire
On seeing her portrait, a servant girl modelling for an artist in 17th century Holland realizes she is ugly. But the portrait opens her eyes to the world of art, she becomes a painter and is transformed by her work so that when a prince charming appears she is no longer ugly.

Moss, Jenny.  Shadow.  Y FIC Moss
When Shadow, whose job all her life has been to stay close to the young queen and prevent her prophecied death at the age of sixteen, fails in her task and the castle is thrown into chaos, she escapes along with a young knight, embarking upon a journey that eventually reveals her true identity.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Beast.   Y FIC Napoli
Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Breath. Y FIC Napoli
Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.

Napoli, Donna Jo. The magic circle.  Y FIC Napoli
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Spinners. Y FIC Napoli
Elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Zel.  Y FIC Napoli
Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the nobleman who pursues her, and delves into the psychological motivations of each of the characters.

Pullman, Philip.  I was a rat!  J Fic Pullman
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.

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