Alternative Fairytales

Do you like your fairytales a bit darker, or a bit twisted? Try these recommendations!

Updated December 11, 2024
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The house with chicken legs
Anderson, Sophie
Paper Book
All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a...
Three dark crowns (bk. 1)
Blake, Kendare.
Paper Book
* Lead feature in the HarperCollins Children's Books Booth a major institutional conferences, including extensive ARC distribution * Big Mouth galley mailing * YALSA galley mailing to teen book groups at school and library systems across the country * Feature ER video and social media graphics on...
Poisoned
Donnelly, Jennifer.
Paper Book
From Jennifer Donnelly, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Stepsister, comes a fairytale retelling that'll forever change the way you think about strength, power, and the real meaning of "happily ever after." "...a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, wrapped...
Stepsister
Donnelly, Jennifer
Paper Book
A stunning and shocking retelling of the Cinderella fairytale from a Carnegie Medal novelist
Rumaysa : a fairytale
Hafiza, Radiya; Touny, Rhaida El
Paper Book
A magical, empowering and fantastically funny fairytale mash-up with heroines that don't need saving, from debut author Radiya Hafizah.Rumaysa, Rumaysa, let down your hijab!For as long as she can remember Rumaysa has been locked away in a tall tower, forced to use her magic to spin...
A blade so black
McKinney, L. L.
Paper Book
"A Blade So Black is the fantasy book I've been waiting for my whole life." --Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give For fans of Marissa Meyer, L.L. McKinney's A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban...

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