Books You Might Like:
Fractured Fairy Tales
Zel by Donna Jo 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 prince, and delves into the psychological
motivations of the characters.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.0
Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli & Richard Tchen.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
The prince of
the pond : otherwise known as De Fawg Pin by Donna Jo Napoli
Having been
turned into a frog by a hag, a frog-prince makes the best of his new life as he
mates, raises a family, and instills a new kind of thinking into his frog
family.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.2
Breath by Donna Jo 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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Spindle's end by Robin 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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.2
The princess
test by Gail Carson
Levine
In this humorous
retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea,"
Lorelei must pass many difficult tests in order to prove that she is a true
princess and win the hand of Prince Nicholas.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.0
Princess Sonora
and the long sleep by
Gail Carson
Levine
In this retelling
of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sonora, who is ten times smarter
than anyone else, vows to choose for herself the best time to be pricked by the
spindle.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
For Biddle's
sake by Gail Carson
Levine
In this humorous
retelling of Andrew Lang's "Puddocky," a young maiden who has been
transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly honed magical
abilities to charm a prince into marriage.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.4
Crazy Jack by Donna Jo Napoli.
In this version
of the traditional tale of the young boy who climbs a beanstalk, Jack searches
for his father, falls in love with Flora, and learns the value of real
treasure.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.5
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen.
In this retelling
of "Sleeping Beauty," a young woman learns that her grandmother had a
secret past tied to the Holocaust.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
The magic
circle by Donna Jo
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.0
Rose daughter by Robin 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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 6.8
Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli
The gods grant
immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and
they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and
honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.9
Beauty sleep by Cameron Dokey.
In this retelling
of "Sleeping Beauty," Aurore, a princess cursed by her aunt to die at
the age of sixteen, leaves her kingdom after her expected demise does not come,
whereupon she meets a prince and is swept into a series of bizarre happenings
that lead to her mysterious bout of sleep.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Ella enchanted by Gail Carson 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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.6
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson 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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
Scarlet moon by Debbie ViguiŽ.
Presents a
retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood," in which Ruth, training to be
a blacksmith since her brother was lost in the Crusades, begins to fall in love
with William, a young noble whose dark secret makes Ruth's trips to her
grandmother's forest home much more dangerous.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
Wendy by Karen Wallace.
In early
twentieth-century London, before their encounter with Peter Pan, nine-year-old
Wendy and her younger brothers lead far from perfect lives with their
emotionally distant parents and abusive Nanny, a situation that only worsens
for Wendy when she see her father kiss another woman and finds herself pulled
into an adult world of mysteries and lies.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.6