Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter Pan)
Dave Barry (J BARRY, DAV)
Peter and the Lost Boys search for the mysterious substance that makes people fly in this prequel to Peter Pan (age 9 and up).

Sign of the Qin (Chinese Myths)
L. G. Bass (YA BASS, L. G. OMM#1)
Set in ancient China, Prince Zong becomes the Starlord to combat the Lord of the Dead with the help of the mythic twin outlaws (10 and up).

Looking Glass Wars
Seeing Redd
(Alice in Wonderland)
Frank Beddor (YA BEDDOR)
Alyss Heart is forced out of her homeland and now lives in our world while struggling to remember her former life (age 12 and up).

A Curse as Dark as Gold (Rumpelstiltskin)
Elizabeth Bunce (YA BUNCE, ELI)
Charlotte must discover the eerie stranger’s name and history before his gold spinning generosity destroys her village.  (11 and up).

Phoenix Dance (12 Dancing Princesses)
Dia Calhoun (YA CALHOUN, DIA)
Fighting an illness of the mind, Phoenix must also solve the mystery of the 12 princesses who shred their shoes every night (11 and up).

Enter Three Witches (Macbeth)
Caroline Cooney (YA COONEY, CAR)
After her father betrays the king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary is locked away by Lord Macbeth (age 12 and up).

Dating Hamlet: Ophelia’s Story (Hamlet)
Lisa Feidler (YA FEIDLER, LIS)
Ophelia recounts her relationship with Hamlet and the complications that followed (14 and up).

Ariel (The Tempest)
Tiffany Grace (YA GRACE, TIF)
Mischievous and powerful Ariel tries to get the shipwrecked Prospero to attack a local tribe. The resulting conflict leads to a powerful storm (14 and up).

Book of a Thousand Days (Maid Maleen)
Shannon Hale (YA HALE, SHA)
Dashti poses as her mistress as they struggle to survive in captivity (11 and up).

Goose Girl (Goose Girl)
Shannon Hale (YA HALE, SHA)
Betrayed by her guards, Princess Anidori must hide as a goose girl until she can find safety (10 and up).

Mira, Mirror (Snow White)
Mette Ivie Harrison (YA HARRISON, MET)
Snow White’s wicked stepmother is still trapped in the mirror, though she tries to convince two girls to help her escape (12 and up).

Lost in the Labyrinth (Minotaur)
Patrice Kindle (YA KINDLE, PAT)
Princess Xenodice tries to protect her half-brother, the Minotaur from Theseus and other powerful entities (10 and up).

Tender Morsels (Snow White & Rose Redd)
Margo Lanagan (YA LANAGAN, MAR)
Liga flees molestation and cruelty to exist in an other worldly safe haven to raise her two daughters until the walls between realities start to break down (15 and up).

Wicked (Wizard of Oz)
Gregory Maguire (MAGUIRE, GRE)
The popular story retelling the Wizard of Oz from the Wicked witch’s point of view.  A hit musical followed, though the book is decidedly more serious and mature, for older teens (16 and up).  See other adult books by Maguire: Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Mirror Mirror, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Wicked Lovely (Faerie Queen)
Melissa Marr (YA MARR, MEL)
Aislinn secretly sees fairies, but when the Winter King picks her as his new queen, she must join the battle she has been avoiding (12 and up).

Beauty (Beauty & the Beast)
Robin McKinley (YA MCKINLEY, ROB)
Straightforward retelling of Beauty and the Beast with some extra details added (11 and up).  See McKinley’s other books: Rose Daughter, Outlaws of Sherwood, Spindle’s End.

An Earthly Knight (Tam Lin)
Janet McNaughton (YA MCNAUGHTON, JAN)
In medieval Scotland, Jenny Avenal must deal with her betrothal to the king’s brother while she struggles to define her destiny (12 and up).

Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI, DON)
The well known tale moves to Persia and is told from the Beast’s point of view (12 and up).

Bound (Cinderella)
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI, DON)
Xing-Xing suffers through cruelty, neglect and servitude as her mother forces her into foot binding to improve her marriage chances (12 and up).

Breath (Pied Piper)
Crazy Jack (Jack & the Beanstalk)
Great God Pan (Pan)
Magic Circle (Hansel & Gretel)
Zel (Rapunzel)
Donna Jo Napoli (YA NAPOLI, DON)
Napoli retells many older tales, often by setting them in alternate settings and endings (12 & up).

East (East of the Sun, West of the Moon)
Edith Pattou (YA PATTOU, EDI)
A white bear whisks Rose away to a distant castle where she struggles to correct a serious mistake (12 and up).

The Lightning Thief (Greek Myths)
Rick Riordin (J RIORDIN, RIC)
Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of a Greek God and he must deal with the consequences of that fact as he tries to uncover who stole Zeus's Lightning (9 and up).

Quiver (Atalanta)
Stephanie Spinner (YA SPINNER, STE)
As her father pressures her for an heir, Atalanta forces her suitors into near impossible challenges as the Gods look on (12 and up).

Pay the Piper (Pied Piper)
Jane Yolen (YA YOLEN, JAN)
Callie interviews the new band, Brass Rat, and uncovers the lead singer’s plan to enslave the children of her town (11 and up).

GRAPHIC NOVELS
Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper (YAGN COOPER, JAM)
Roy Thomas adapts Cooper’s classic tale of Hawkeye in this graphic novel (15 and up).

Fables
Bill Willingham (GN FABLES)
Willingham uses classic fairy tales from many traditions to tell this long story of fables who have escaped the Adversary and have settled in our world as they plot their return to the Homelands. Snow White, Prince Charming, Old King Cole and more show up.  For older teens (16 and up).

Rapunzel’s Revenge
Shannon Hale (YAGN HALE, SHA)
An old west retelling of Rapunzel where she uses her hair to battle outlaws as she searches for her mother (9 and up).

Thor
YAGN THOR
Marvel takes on the Norse god of thunder and brings him into their world of superheroes and villains (13 and up).

Wonder Woman
YAGN WONDER WOMAN
Multiple writers take on this iconic DC character that is steeped in Greek Mythology (13 and up).