Middle Grade Fairy Tale Retellings & Original Fairytales

Updated June 3, 2025
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The house with chicken legs
Anderson, Sophie
Paper Book
An extraordinary retelling of the Baba Yaga myth, this debut novel will wrap itself around your heart and never let go.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...
The jumbies
Baptiste, Tracey
Paper Book
The start of an exciting series filled with Caribbean folklore, daring adventure, and ancient magic, from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste. Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her,...
Peter and the Starcatchers
Barry, Dave.
Paper Book
Don't even think of starting this book unless you're sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. A fast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peter and his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They set sail aboard the Never Land, a...
The School for Good and Evil
Chainani, Soman
Paper Book
* Class Acts Summer Reading featured title; promotion to include group advertising in school and library media, print and online Class Acts Summer Reading Kit, promotion at national teacher and librarian conferences, and extensive galley distribution at conferences and librarian preview events<...
The wishing spell
Colfer, Chris
Paper Book
The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world! Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with...
The serpent's secret
DasGupta, Sayantani
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author comes a world packed with action and adventure, perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Soman Chainani.MEET KIRANMALA:INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMON SLAYER(Only she doesn't know it yet.) On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth...
A tale dark & Grimm
Gidwitz, Adam.
Paper Book
In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses,...
Book of a thousand days
Hale, Shannon.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale comes a Brothers Grimm fairy tale retelling about mistaken identity and love gone awry. When Lady Saren refuses to marry a man she fears, she and her maid, Dashti, are locked in a tower...
The goose girl
Hale, Shannon.
Paper Book
In this first book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's beloved YA fantasy series Books of Bayern, Princess Ani must become a goose girl before she can become queen. Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown...
Hamra and the jungle of memories
Hanna Alkaf
Paper Book
Featured title at school & library conferences and preview events (virtual and in-person) Featured title in Shake Up Your Shelves, a campaign to promote inclusive texts in curriculum, library collections, and in bookstores Featured title on HarperStacks, the school &...
The hero's guide to saving your kingdom
Healy, Christopher
Paper Book
* 2012 PLA author galley signing (Philadelphia, Mar-12) * Featured title in New Voices program; promotion to include announcement advertising, extensive galley distribution, exclusive web content (letter from editor, author Q&A, early chapter sampler, program widget),...
Ella enchanted
Levine, Gail Carson
Paper Book
This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old.  At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift--the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop off...
Snow & Rose
Martin, Emily Winfield
Paper Book
A fairy-tale reimagining of Snow White and Rose Red from the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin. Filled with stunning illustrations.  "Emily Winfield Martin -- reimagine[s] Brothers Grimm fairy tales, treating delight, with a few...
Frogkisser!
Nix, Garth
Paper Book
The Last Thing She Needs Is a Prince.The First Thing She Needs Is Some Magic.Poor Princess Anya. Forced to live with her evil stepmother's new husband, her evil stepstepfather. Plagued with an unfortunate ability to break curses with a magic-assisted kiss. And forced to go on the run when her...
Red : the true story of Red Riding Hood
Shurtliff, Liesl
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of RUMP, comes a spellbinding fairy tale featuring a brave heroine, a wild wolf, plenty of magical misadventures, and more! Red is not afraid of the big bad wolf. She's not afraid of anything . . . except magic. But when...
Sisters of the Neversea
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Paper Book
Big Mouth galley mailing Featured title in Heartdrum launch brochure Featured title in Heartdrum educator guide (with both W21 and S21 titles) Announcement and review advertising in key school & library media, such as School Library...
The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making
Valente, Catherynne M.
Paper Book
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."--Time magazine, on the Fairyland series A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER; for fans of Impossible Creatures! Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and...

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