Desperate to escape the competing claims of her godmothers, the Low Gods of Death and Fortune, 16-year-old Vanja uses an enchanted pearl necklace to rob the Almandy Empire's nobility as the Penny Phantom. But when her thefts offend the…
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Teen Summer Reads 2024: Fairytale and Folklore Retellings
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- Lynet has grown up in the shadow of her mother who died giving birth to her or so she was told. In reality, her heartbroken father asked a magician, Gregory, to make him a daughter out of snow in the image of his late wife. Lynet chafes…
- The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic....Retelling of The Six Swans.
- Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt. Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the…
- Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives and if a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again.…
- When her mother brokers Alyrra's marriage to the prince of distant Menaiya, Alyrra assumes the worst. But her life changes before she arrives in Menaiya: Alyrra's vindictive handmaiden Valka, aided by a cunning sorceress with motives of…
- Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan, but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace...Inspired by Arabian Nights.
- Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves...retelling of Cinderella
- 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…
- Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant had three daughters. When his business failed, he moved his daughters to the countryside. The youngest daughter, Beauty, is fascinated by the thorny stems of a mysterious plant that overwhelms their…
- Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they…
- After the end of a long war, a young soldier travels to the capital to find his only remaining relatives and a job. Galen obtains work as a palace gardener, where he meets the king's oldest daughter and soon learns of the mystery…
- As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this…
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