Classics With a Twist

The Lost Years of Merlin	Barron, T.A.	YA F Barron
A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.
Cassandra's Sister	Bennett, Veronica	YA F Bennett
A fictionalized biography of Jane Austen focuses on her early life growing up with her sister Cassandra in a large country parsonage family in southern England.
The Shakespeare Stealer	Blackwood, Gary	YA F Blackwood
An orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Avalon High	Cabot, Meg	YA F Cabot
Having moved to Maryland with her Medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
Enter Three Witches	Cooney, Caroline	YA F Cooney
When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and Lady Macbeth.
Over Sea, Under Stone	Cooper, Susan	YA F Cooper
Three children on vacation in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the Dark.
King of Shadows	Cooper, Susan	YA F Cooper
When in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
Iris, Messenger	Deming, Sarah	YA F Deming
After discovering that the immortals of Greek mythology reside in her hometown of Middleville, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Iris listens to their life stories, gaining wisdom, beauty, and startling revelations about her past.
Sunlight and Shadow	Dokey, Cameron	YA F Dokey
Mina, a child of the dark, marries a prince and before they can be happy they must endure deadly trials. Based on Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
Romeo's Ex	Fiedler, Lisa	YA F Fiedler
Sixteen-year-old Rosaline, who is studying to be a healer, becomes romantically entangled with the Montague family even as her beloved young cousin, Juliet Capulet, defies the family feud to secretly marry Romeo.
Corbenic	Fisher, Catherine	YA F Fisher
In a modern day version of Percival and the Holy Grail, a guilt-ridden British teenager leaves his mentally ill mother to live with his wealthy uncle and begins a journey of self-knowledge and redemption after being briefly transported to the Waste Land of Arthurian times.
Ithaka	Geras, Adele	YA F Geras
The island of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors demanding that Penelope choose a new husband, as she patiently awaits the return of Odysseus from the Trojan War.
Something Rotten	Gratz, Alan	YA F Gratz
Horatio Wilkes tries to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee in this contemporary story based on "Hamlet."
Prada & Prejudice	Hubbard, Amanda	YA F Hubbard
During a school trip to England, fifteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes in an effort to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends Callie back to 1815.
Ophelia	Klein, Lisa	YA F Klein
Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.
Wondrous Strange	Livingston, Lesley	YA F Livingston
A seventeen-year-old actress playing Titania in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" discovers that she is actually the stolen daughter of the Faerie king Auberon.
Wuthering High	Lockwood, Cara	YA F Lockwood
Fifteen-year-old Miranda is sent to a boarding school for delinquent teens, but she can't tell if it is the ghosts or the other students who will cause her more trouble when their lives begin mirroring plots in classic literature. Sequel: The Scarlet Letterman
The Night Tourist	Marsh, Katherine	YA F Marsh
After Jack has an accident he meets a ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where the dead reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.
Cyrano	McCaughrean, Geraldine	YA F McCaughrean
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxanne, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
Mid-Semester Night's Dream	Meacham, Margaret	YA F Meacham
Chaos results when Morgan gets help in casting a love spell on a boy at school from Gretta, a fairy-godmother-in-training.
Loving Will Shakespeare	Meyer, Carolyn	YA F Meyer
In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.
The Lightning Thief	Riordan, Rick	YA F Riordan
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. Sequel: Sea of Monsters.
The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love	Rushton, Rosie	YA F Rushton
The Dashwood sisters, forced to leave their affluent life, move to windswept Norfolk where they learn the ups and downs of sisterhood and romance
First Impressions	Sachs, Marilyn	YA F Sachs
Rereading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" over Christmas break gives brainy, fifteen-year-old Alice a different way of looking at herself, her first boyfriend, her friends, and her family.
Saving Juliet	Selfors, Suzanne	YA F Selfors
When Mimi is transported into Shakepeare's Verona, she determines to give Juliet a happily-ever-after ending.
Enthusiasm	Shulman, Polly	YA F Shulman
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.
Dread Locks	Shusterman, Neal	YA F Shusterman
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
I am Morgan le Fay	Springer , Nancy	YA F Springer
In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has magic powers and links to the faerie world.
Ariel	Tiffany, Grace	YA F Tiffany
A retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" from the perspective of Ariel, the mischievous air spirit.
The Book of Mordred	Vande Velde, Vivian	YA F Vande Velde
As the peaceful King Arthur reigns, the five-year-old daughter of Lady Alayna, newly widowed of the village-wizard Toland, is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp	Yancey, Rick	YA F Yancey
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.