| Rapunzel’s Revenge (Rapunzel) | Hale, Shannon | YA Comics Hale |
| Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother. One day, she climbs over the wall and discovers the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel’s gold mine. |
| Calamity Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk) | Hale, Shannon | YA Comics Hale |
| In this graphic novel Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends. |
| Poison Apples (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Archer, Lily | YA F Archer |
| At an elite Massachusetts boarding school, three fifteen-year-old girls of very different backgrounds discover a common bond and form a club to plot revenge against their evil stepmothers. |
| The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Block, Francesca Lia | YA F Block |
| Nine fairy tales are given shimmering and scary shape in very modern dress, with Block's luminescent, darkling prose. |
| Untold Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Brooke, William J. | YA F Brooke |
| Retells and continues the stories, from a contemporary perspective, of such classic tales as "The Frog Prince," "Snow white," Beauty and the Beast," and "Sleeping Beauty." |
| A Curse Dark as Gold (Rumpelstiltskin) | Bunce, Elizabeth C. | YA F Bunce |
| Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. |
| Wolf (Little Red Riding Hood) | Cross, Gillian | YA F Cross |
| A thirteen-year-old Londoner, Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves. |
| Wild Orchid (Ballad of Mulan) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
| After disguising herself as a boy to join the Chinese army, Mulan returns home only to face an arena that frightens her more than any battlefield--the royal court where she must honor her family through marriage. |
| Belle (Beauty and the Beast) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
| When her father finds the fabled Heartwood Tree that is believed to reveal the face of true love and ends up being held hostage by a lonely beast, Belle does his biding in order for her father to be set free and eventually begins to see a different side of the sad creature as time passes. |
| Beauty Sleep (Sleeping Beauty) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
| Sixteen-year-old Aurore, whose original curse has been transmuted to a one hundred year sleep starting on her seventeenth birthday, encounters Oswald, whom she has replaced as the king's heir, and the questing knight Ironheart. |
| Storyteller's Daughter (An "Arabian Nights" Tale) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
| When Shaharazad becomes enslaved, she must remain cool and calm to come up with a clever plan that will make the coldhearted king see her in a different light in order to change her future. |
| Golden (Rapunzel) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
| Born bald and raised by an adoptive mother, Rapunzel is finally told the truth about Rue, another daughter trapped in a tower due to a witch's curse, and so she heads off to help the imprisoned girl but becomes jealous of Rue's beautiful hair. |
| Before Midnight (Cinderella) | Dokey, Cameron | YA F Dokey |
| A nameless baby is left in the care of servants following her mother's death and her father's desertion. The child's tendency to sleep in the fireplace earns her the name "La Cendrillon" in this retelling of the classic fairy tale. |
| Into the Wild (Rapunzel) | Durst, Sarah Beth | YA F Durst |
| Having escaped from the Wild and the preordained fairy tale plots it imposes, Rapunzel, along with her daughter Julie Marchen, tries to live a fairly normal life, but when the Wild breaks free and takes over their town, it is Julie who has to prevent everyone from being trapped in the events of a story. |
| Murkmere (Swan Maiden) | Elliott, Patricia | YA F Elliott |
| A village girl, newly companion to the Master's ward in the days following the Ministration, challenges the motives of the religious leaders of the Divine Beings, the birds. |
| Once Upon a Marigold (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Ferris, Jean | YA F Ferris |
| A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father. |
| Shadow Spinner (An "Arabian Nights" Tale) | Fletcher, Susan | YA F Fletcher |
| When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life. |
| A Kiss in Time (Sleeping Beauty) | Flinn, Alex | YA F Flinn |
| Princess Talia persuades Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away. |
| Beastly (Beauty and the Beast) | Flinn, Alex | YA F Flinn |
| A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. |
| Truly Grim Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Galloway, Priscilla | YA F Galloway |
| A guilt-ridden prince with a foot fetish seeking his glass-slippered dance partner and a beauty contest winner as Snow White's murderous stepmother are featured in two of the original "grim" plots in this young adult collection loosely based on eight traditional fairy tales. |
| Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) | George, Jessica Day | YA F George |
| Lass, who is gifted with the ability to understand animals, as she, in exchange for her family's safety, follows a polar bear to his castle where things aren't what they seem. |
| Princess of the Midnight Ball (Twelve Dancing Princesses) | George, Jessica Day | YA F George |
| As one of the princesses forced to dance every night at the midnight balls for the King Under Stone, Rose and her soldier, Galen, work together to break the evil curse. |
| Princess of Glass (Cinderella) | George, Jessica Day | YA F George |
| In the midst of maneuverings to create political alliances through marriage, sixteen-year-old Poppy, one of the infamous twelve dancing princesses, becomes the target of a vengeful witch while Prince Christian tries to save her. |
| The Tower Room (Rapunzel) | Geras, Adale | YA F Geras |
| Living at the secluded girls' school where her foster mother is headmistress, Megan falls in love with the young man her foster mother has chosen for herself. |
| Watching the Roses (Sleeping Beauty) | Geras, Adale | YA F Geras |
| After being raped at her eighteenth birthday party, an English girl, whose life resembles a modern version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, withdraws into silent thoughts of her unusual family and the events that led to her trauma. |
| The Princess Bride (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Goldman, William | YA F Goldman |
| A modern classic. Throughly tongue-in-cheek modern fairy tale. |
| Palace of Mirrors (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | YA F Haddix |
| Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim. |
| The Goose Girl (The Goose Girl) | Hale, Shannon | YA F Hale |
| On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. |
| Book of a Thousand Days (Maid Maleen) | Hale, Shannon | YA F Hale |
| Fifteen-year-old Dashti follows her mistress into exile where she brings her safely to the lands of the man they both love. |
| The Princess and the Hound (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Harrison, Mette Ivie | YA F Harrison |
| He is a prince who possesses the forbidden animal magic. She is a princess inseparable from her hound. Though they think they have little in common, each possesses a secret that must be hidden at all costs, and they are bound to marry for the good of their kingdoms. |
| Mira, Mirror (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Harrison, Mette Ivie | YA F Harrison |
| Long after the disappearance of Snow White's stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater. |
| The Rose Bride (The White Bride and the Black Bride) | Holder, Nancy | YA F Holder |
| After Rose's father dies and her step-mother, Ombrine, moves in with her evil daughter, the two will stop at nothing to destroy her relationship with King Jean-Marc, and after they tear out her late mother's beautiful garden, Rose's only inspiration for living lies in the beauty of a single blossom that survived the attack. |
| Spirited (Beauty and the Beast) | Holder, Nancy | YA F Holder |
| In 1756, during the war between the British and the French, Isabella and her father are kidnapped by a young medicine man who wishes to take revenge for the death of his wife and child, but after noticing the bravery of his young victim, Wusamequin reconsiders his plans of murder. |
| If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? (Cinderella) | Kantor, Melissa | YA F Kantor |
| After her father remarries, high school sophomore Lucy Norton is forced to move to Long Island, where her evil new stepmother and annoying stepsisters make her life miserable. |
| Goose Chase (Six Swans/Wild Swans) | Kindl, Patrice | YA F Kindl |
| Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment and other dangers, before learning exactly who she is. |
| Keturah and Lord Death (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Leavitt, Martine | YA F Leavitt |
| When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King’s Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love. |
| Ever (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Levine, Gail Carson | YA F Levine |
| Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made. |
| Ella Enchanted (Cinderella) | Levine, Gail Carson | YA F Levine |
| At birth, Ella was bestowed the gift of obedience by a fairy. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. When her mother dies and father remarries leaving her in the care of a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem in grave peril. |
| Fairest (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Levine, Gail Carson | YA F Levine |
| In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is. |
| Ash (Cinderella) | Lo, Malinda | YA F Lo |
| Ash grows up aware of the fairy realm. One day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves. |
| Snow (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) | Lynn, Tracy | YA F Lynn |
| Once upon a time, a child was born to a duke and duchess in a remote corner of Wales, but the wife died giving birth, and the duke, in his grief, refused to have anything to do with the child. So begins this Victorian psychological thriller based on Snow White. |
| Wildwood Dancing (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) | Marillier, Juliet | YA F Marillier |
| Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood. |
| The Swan Kingdom (Wild Swans) | Marriott, Zoë | YA F Marriott |
| When Alexa's mother is killed, her father marries a cunning and powerful woman and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a long, dangerous journey as she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance. |
| Beauty (Beauty and the Beast) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| Sixteen-year-old Beauty is not the prettiest girl in her family, but she is the cleverest, bravest, and most honorable. |
| Rose Daughter (Beauty and the Beast) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| McKinley's second novelization of Beauty and the Beast has the same plot but the slant is quite different, with a more mystical, darker edge. |
| Deerskin (Donkeyskin) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| When her growing beauty begins to resemble her mother's too closely, Princess Lissar must flee from her father's wrath, and, in doing so, she unlocks a door into a world of magic. |
| Spindle's End (Sleeping Beauty) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| 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 vengeful powers. |
| The Door in the Hedge (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | McKinley, Robin | YA F McKinley |
| A collection of stories--both imaginative retellings of classic tales as well as McKinley's own original works--includes "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "The Frog Prince." |
| An Earthly Knight (A Scottish Fairy Tale, "Tam Lin") | McNaughton, Janet | YA F McNaughton |
| When her older sister, Isabel, disgraces the family, it is up to 16-year-old Jenny to save her father's reputation and prosperity. Then, she meets Tam Lin in the forest and befriends him. Stories of his insanity and odd behavior fuel the locals' fear of him. |
| The Blue Castle (Bluebeard) | Montgomery, L.M. | YA F Montgomery |
| At 29, Valancy has never been in love, and it seems romance had passed her by. Then a letter arrives from Dr. Trent, and Valancy decides to throw caution to the winds. Soon she discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures. |
| Beast (Beauty and the Beast) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| Orasmyn looks like a beast and acts like a beast, yet isn't. He is actually a Persian prince who, because of his pride in regard to an ancient ritual, angers a fairy, or pari. The pari transforms Orasmyn into a lion, which sets a powerful curse in motion. |
| Bound (Cinderella) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly binds her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. |
| The Magic Circle (Hansel and Gretel) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later. |
| Crazy Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| The tale of a young boy who climbs a beanstalk, searches for his father, falls in love with Flora, and learns the value of real treasure. |
| Sirena (The Little Mermaid) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War. |
| Zel (Rapunzel) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| The story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters. |
| Spinners (Rumpelstiltskin) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| A tale in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child. |
| Breath (The Pied Piper) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hamelin of rats. |
| Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale (Miscellaneous Fairy Tales) | Napoli, Donna Jo | YA F Napoli |
| Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted. |
| Haunted Waters (A German Fairy Tale, "Undine") | Osborne, Mary Pope | YA F Osborne |
| After meeting the mysterious sea maid Undine on a bleak promontory and making her his wife, Lord Huldbrand tries to defend her from the faceless demon that haunts her, while he probes her strange ties to the aquatic world. |
| Cindy Ella (Cinderella) | Palmer, Robin | YA F Palmer |
| Sophomore, Cindy Gold publishes an anti-prom letter in her high school newspaper, but when she develops a crush on her SAT tutor, on top of the one she already has on popular senior Adam Silver as well as a boy she has been exchanging instant messages with, she begins to doubt her own anti-prom convictions. |
| Geek Charming (Cinderella) | Palmer, Robin | YA F Palmer |
| Rich, spoiled, and popular high school senior Dylan is coerced into doing a documentary film with Josh, one of the school's geeks, who leads her to realize that the world does not revolve around her. |
| East (East of the Sun and West of the Moon) | Pattou, Edith | YA F Pattou |
| Edith, a young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment. |
| Sisters Red | Pearce, Jackson | YA F Pearce |
| After a werewolf killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenage girls, learning how to lure them with red. |
| I was a Rat (Cinderella) | Pullman, Philip | YA F Pullman |
| A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat. |
| My Fair Godmother (Cinderella) | Rallison, Janette | YA F Rallison |
| High school sophomore Savannah wants to find the perfect prom date, but when a godmother who is only fair becomes involved, Savannah finds herself in trouble in the Middle Ages, along with a boy who would like to be her charming prince. |
| Just One Wish (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Rallison, Janette | YA F Rallison |
| Seventeen-year-old Annika tries to cheer up her little brother Jeremy before his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor by bringing home his favorite television actor, Steve Raleigh, the star of “Teen Robin Hood.” |
| Straw into Gold (Rumpelstiltskin) | Schmidt, Gary D. | YA F Schmidt |
| Pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek. |
| What Happened in Hamelin (The Pied Piper) | Skurzynski, Gloria | YA F Skurzynski |
| A novel of the Pied Piper legend told from the standpoint of a 14-year-old baker's assistant who dreams of freedom from his harsh medieval life and of a new life with the piper. |
| Bella at Midnight (Cinderella) | Stanley, Diane | YA F Stanley |
| A subtle twist of the Cinderella story, a baby girl, Bella, is born to a mother who dies in childbirth. Bella's furious father sends her away to be raised among peasants, where she is befriended by Julian, a prince, a fourth son who has no place in his family. |
| Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | | YA F Stories Swan |
| Thirteen authors model new stories after traditional fairy tales to provide original yet familiar tales. |
| When the Nightingale Sings (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Thomas, Joyce Carol | YA F Thomas |
| Despite her mean-spirited foster mother's attempts to demean her, fourteen-year-old orphan Marigold finds the song within her heart during the search for a new lead gospel singer for the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church. |
| The Swan Maiden (Swan Maiden) | Tomlinson, Heather | YA F Tomlinson |
| Raised as a chatelaine-in-training unlike her sisters who are learning the arts of sorcery, Doucette discovers when she is sixteen years old that she too has magic in her blood, and she must brave her mother's wrath--and the loss of the man she loves--in order to follow her birthright. |
| The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | Vande Velde, Vivian | YA F Vande Velde |
| A collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold. |
| Midnight Pearls (The Little Mermaid) | Viguie', Debbie | YA F Viguie' |
| Pearl is rescued from the sea by a fisherman who raises her despite her translucent skin and too-long legs. Pearl lives a lonely life with only a young prince, James, for a friend. Years later, when she is 17, her true identity is revealed. |
| Scarlet Moon (Little Red Riding Hood) | Viguie', Debbie | YA F Viguie' |
| One day while Ruth was traveling to visit her grandmother she meets William. However, Young William is prey to a curse placed on his family ages ago. Now Ruth must come face-to-face with his destiny at Grandma's house. |
| The Crimson Thread (Rumpelstiltskin) | Weyn, Susan | YA F Weyn |
| Bertie O'Malley, a seamstress, helps save the J. P. Wellington family fortune thanks to Ray Stalls, a man from Bertie's tenement who creates stunning evening gowns in the night, but when Ray asks for Bertie's first born as payment, she never imagines that he is serious. |
| The Night Dance (The Twelve Dancing Princesses) | Weyn, Suzanne | YA F Weyn |
| Discovering that his youngest daughter is sneaking out of the house every night, Sir Ethan challenges the single men of the kingdom to find out the truth about her escapades, thus Bedivere takes on the task which forces Rowena to be extra-cautious with the secrets she has been keeping from all. |
| Water Song (The Frog King) | Weyn, Susan | YA F Weyn |
| Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life. Although war rages abroad, she hardly feels its effect. But when she and her mother travel from Britain to Belgium, Emma finds herself stranded in a war-torn country, utterly alone. With all of her attention focused on survival and escape, Emma hardly expects to find love. |
| A Wolf at the Door: and Other Retold Fairy Tales (A collection of short stories based on fairy tales) | | YA F Wolf |
| This well-written collection revisits both familiar and lesser-known stories with creative revisions by a variety of familiar writers. The tales range from Jane Yolen's comic "Cinder Elephant" to Garth Nix's downright creepy "Hansel's Eyes," in which the witch no longer eats children, but instead harvests their organs for sale. |
| Snow White and Rose Red | Wrede, Patricia | YA F Wrede |
| Snow White and Rose Red live on the edge of the forest that conceals the elusive border of Faerie. They know enough about Faerie lands and mortal magic to be concerned when they find two human sorcerers setting spells near the border. |
| Dealing with Dragons (Miscellaneous fairy tales) | Wrede, Patricia C. | YA F Wrede |
| Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. |
| Pay the Piper (The Pied Piper) | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
| When all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, Callie knows to begin the dangerous search by investigating a local band, Brass Rat. |
| Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
| A young woman's promise to her dying grandmother leads her on a quest to discover the truth of her own family's mysterious beginnings. |
| Troll Bridge: a Rock 'N' Roll Fairy Tale (Three Billy Goats Gruff) | Yolen, Jane | YA F Yolen |
| Sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira is transported to a strange and mystical wilderness, where she finds herself in the middle of a deadly struggle between a magical fox and a monstrous troll. |