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1) Charmed
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sleeping Beauty's nemesis breaks the Evil Queen out of the dungeon, Gilly and her friends at Fairy Tale Reform School must figure out how to stop Alva from terrorizing the village of Enchantasia--before she comes after the ones Gilly loves the most.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is "inside his own short stories!".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.
5) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company and who has never been allowed to cut her hair.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2023 Hugo Awards
2023 Reading Challenge: Science Fiction or Fantasy
Readalikes for 'The Kingdom of Sweets'
2023 Reading Challenge: Science Fiction or Fantasy
Readalikes for 'The Kingdom of Sweets'
Description
"This isn't a fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's one where she kills him. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive new fantasy adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 8
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
In medieval Hagenheim, Germany, Aladdin, a poor orphan from the Holy Land, tries to rescue and win the heart of Kirstyn, the Duke of Hagenheim's daughter, his friend since childhood who is now pursued by greedy men seeking her father's fortune.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Real life isn't a fairytale. In fairy tales, the prince falls in love with the princess. But Tié̂n has a different story to tell. His parents are refugees struggling to learn English, and he doesn't know how to come out to them in Vietnamese. If he doesn't even have the right words, how can he ever know if his parents wills accept him? The answer is in fairy tales - a language that Tié̂n and his parents share. Tié̂nlearns from his favorite...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden It's Zinnia Gray's...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after--and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past. But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people--though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend--her grandmother Zelda--who died under mysterious circumstances years...
16) Worlds collide
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
With all of the fairy tale characters occupying the same world in the Big Apple, Conner and Alex face their biggest challenge to date of restoring order to the human and fairy tale realms. Conner and his friends take on the challenge while they search for missing Alex in this conclusion to the series.
17) Cinderella
Series
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
18) Mihi ever after
Author
Series
Mihi ever after volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When she and her new friends discover a portal to a fairy tale realm, Mihi Whan Park finally gets her shot at being a princess, but she must decide where her loyalties lie when her friends want to go home.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sarah Jane Dillard discovers and helps an injured 'sangman fairy in the Tanglewood Forest, putting herself, her six sisters, and friends Aunt Lillian and the Apple Tree Man in the middle of a fairy feud.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this captivating interpretation of a classic fairy tale, children can rediscover the much-loved story of Sleeping Beauty while exploring the kingdom of the fairies--a place where all of the classic fairy tales coexist and intertwine. In this retelling of Sleeping Beauty, youngsters can follow Verity and her fairy friends in the Fairy-tale Kingdom and see how they help good prevail over evil, making sure everyone lives happily ever after. Verity...
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