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Fairytale and Other RetellingsHigh School
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The wrath & the dawn
by Renée Ahdieh
Coming of age in a land where the Caliph of Khorasan takes a new bride each night and executes her at sunrise, 16-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry him in order to break the cycle and exact revenge for the murder of her best friend. Inspired by A Thousand and One Nights.
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Tiger Lily
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily receives special protections from the spiritual forces of Neverland, but then she meets her tribe's most dangerous enemy--Peter Pan--and falls in love with him.
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Blackhearts
by Nicole Castroman
A reimagining of the infamous Blackbeard the Pirate story follows the experiences of a wealthy merchant's son whose longing for a life at sea is complicated by a forbidden love affair with an impoverished orphan girl who dreams of sailing to Curaçao, her mother's birthplace.
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Bull
by David Elliott
The best-selling author of the Evangeline Mudd series updates the classic story of Theseus and the Minotaur in a darkly comedic, versed adaptation specifically tailored to the interests of today's young adults.
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Masque of the Red Death
by Bethany Griffin
A wealthy girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow the government, and faces the threat of a new plague.
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Bright smoke, cold fire
by Rosamund Hodge
Bound by her family's magical heritage to punish their enemies, Juliet nearly loses her life trying to execute her beloved Romeo for killing her cousin, a situation that compels her guardian, Paris, to uncover dark secrets about their walled city.
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Wintersong
by S. Jae-Jones
Having heard tales of the beautiful but dangerous Goblin King all her life, Liesl infuses her musical compositions with her romantic dreams before the abduction of her sister forces her to journey to the Underground, where she faces an impossible choice.
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Heartless
by Marissa Meyer
A stand-alone prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by the best-selling author of the Lunar Chronicles, follows the story of the Queen of Hearts, whose talent for baking and love for a mysterious court joker conflict with her mother's ambitions to make her a queen.
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Dark shimmer
by Donna Jo Napoli
After being taken in by a widower and his daughter following her mother's death, Dolce continues to make mirrors that are slowly causing her to go mad from mercury poisoning.
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The summer of chasing mermaids
by Sarah Ockler
Losing her ability to speak after a tragic accident, a once-talented singer finds romance with a notorious playboy in a picturesque seaside town. By the best-selling author of Twenty Boy Summer.
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Vassa in the night
by Sarah Porter
Inspired by the Russian folktale classic "Vassilissa the Beautiful," 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.
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Jek/Hyde
by Amy Danziger Ross
A science-loving teen watches with growing trepidation as her best friend and crush becomes increasingly intertwined in the life of a reckless bad-boy newcomer with an unexpected history.
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Never ever
by Sara Saedi
Dreading the arrival of her birthday when her parents' nasty divorce convinces her that growing up is not worth it, Wylie is whisked away with her brothers to a mysterious island where nobody ages past 17 and she falls in love with a romantic boy until a friend's disappearance reveals the island's dark secrets.
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