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Timeless Tale Adaptations
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Geekerella
by Ashley Poston
A devoted fan of a classic sci-fi television series risks the ire of her evil stepsisters by entering a contest to win an invitation to a ball where she would meet her favorite actor, a teen star who would prove he is more than just a dumb heartthrob.
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Forest of a thousand lanterns
by Julie C. Dao
A reimagining of the Evil Queen legend, set in a mystical Far East, follows a peasant girl's quest to become Empress by unleashing a terrible dark force. A first novel.
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Hunted
by Meagan Spooner
A dark reimagining of Beauty and the Beast follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity. By the best-selling author of the Starbound trilogy.
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Tell the wind and fire
by Sarah Rees Brennan
Living in a world filled with opulent magic and merciless violence, two boys share a dangerous connection that is guarded by a single girl until the outbreak of a revolution threatens their survival. By the best-selling author of The Demon's Lexicon.
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The fall
by Bethany Griffin
A reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, features short, non-chronological chapters that reveal how Madeline's resolve to save her brother from madness causes her to be buried alive inside their decimated home. By the author of Masque of the Red Death.
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Wendy Darling : Stars
by Colleen Oakes
Loved by two men--a steady and handsome bookseller's son from London and Peter Pan, a dashing and dangerous charmer--Wendy realizes that Neverland, like her heart, is a wild place, teeming with dark secrets and dangerous obsessions
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Dark shimmer
by Donna Jo Napoli
A fairy-tale retelling set in medieval Venice follows the experiences of a giant-sized teen girl who hides on a lagoon island where she makes mirrors with quicksilver before a tragedy compels her move to a land where she is regarded as beautiful. By the author of Zel.
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League of archers
by Eva Howard
Wrongly accused of murdering the famous outlaw Robin Hood, Ellie is declared a hero by the village baron and targeted by angry villagers before she flees into the forest, where she learns what it really means to be a hero.
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The Looking Glass Wars
by Frank Beddor
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
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The graveyard book
by Neil Gaiman
Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead.
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Splintered : a novel
by A. G. Howard
A descendant of Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 16-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother and predecessors until she discovers that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may be able to save her family from their age-old curse.
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Beastly
by Alex Flinn
Having been the most popular guy at school with the meanest and most egotistical attitude, Kyle Kingsbury is punished by a witch and turned into a beast who now must find his true love and make her accept him as he is in order to break the curse and return him to being the man he once was.
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Something rotten : a Horatio Wilkes mystery
by Alan Gratz
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
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Death cloud : Sherlock Holmes the legend begins
by Andy Lane
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Farnham, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
When Cinder, a gifted cyborg with a mysterious past, becomes entangled with the handsome Prince Kai, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle to save humankind from a deadly plague and ruthless lunar beings.
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Amiri and Odette : a dance for two
by Walter Dean Myers
Presents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.
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A wounded name
by Dot Hutchison
A reimagining of the world and story of Hamlet--from Ophelia's perspective and set in an American boarding school
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King of Ithaka
by Tracy Barrett
When 16-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos' father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.
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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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A song for Ella Grey
by David Almond
A modern adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth lyrically depicts the experiences of Claire, who struggles as a bystander when her best friend, Ella, becomes involved with a charismatic young man at the beach. By the award-winning author of Skellig.
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