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Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella Series in Order: 233 books


  • Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    A medieval sixteen year-old girl who still believes in magic is helped by an old monk and a young goatherd to escape her dismal life reminiscent of Cinderella's. ...



  • M.M. Kaye

    "YOU SHALL BE ORDINARY." So proclaimed the fairy Crustacea at the christening of Her Serene Royal Highness, Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne. And ordinary she was. With mousy brown hair, a turned-up nose and freckles, Pri...



  • Ai-Ling Louie

    "...A worthwhile addition to picture book collections." -- Booklist."Executed with chromatic splendor--a unique combination of brillinace and restraint." -- The Horn Book"Every library will be enriched by it." -- School Library Journal...



  • John Steptoe

    A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe.

    Inspired by a traditio...



  • David Henry Wilson

    Tells the story of Cinderella from the point of view of Robert, a rat who is turned into the coachman for one night--yet after he returns to his animal form, he retains his power of speech, and a chain of surprising events follows...



  • Shirley Climo

    "A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations" (School Library Journal). "An inventive twist on the classic tale" (Publishers Weekly).

    This Egyptian spin on the classic Cinderella tale was initially recorded i...



  • Kay Hooper

    Beautiful heiress Amanda Wilderman insisted she didn't believe in princes, yet shed agreed to attend the masquerade ball as Cinderella. Dashing entrepreneur Ryder Foxx had no use for fairy tales but made an impossibly handsome Prince Charming. He ...



  • Ru Emerson

    Young Prince Conrad had never seen such a beautiful maiden. Her name was Sofia, and she was bewitching, beguiling, and bewildering. It was as if she had cast a spell on him. But was it true love—or a dark, powerful sorcery as tempting and in...







  • Terry Pratchett

    DEATH WAITS FOR NO ONE -- NOT EVEN A FAIRY GODMOTHER... So when Desiderata waited a little too long to find a successor, it was up to the Discworld's own zany version of the three witches--Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg--to grab ...



  • Rafe Martin

    From Algonquin Indian folklore comes one of the most haunting, powerful versions of the Cinderella tale ever told.In a village by the shores of Lake Ontario lived an invisible being. All the young women wanted to marry him because he was rich, powerf...




  • Shirley Climo

    "This masterfully retold version of Cinderella presents real Korean customs and includes dramatic, brightly colored illustrations" (Children's Literature).

    This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Publishers Week...



  • Emma Donoghue

    Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, somet...




  • Ellen Jackson

    "Exuberant and funny -- kids�will love this version of the familiar story for its humor and vibrant artwork." -- School Library Journal

    In Cinder Edna, Ellen Jackson and Kevin O'Malley team up to bring young readers the delightful story of ...



  • Jennifer Baker

    A contemporary retelling of "Cinderella" finds high school junior Ella at the mercy of a rich and cold-hearted stepmother after the death of her father, until intervention by a fairy godmother helps her discover true love. Original....



  • Babette Cole

    In this delightful retelling of the classic fairy tale,�Prince Cinders sets out on an adventure, aided by his very own fairy godmother.

    Great for ages 4 and up.

    "Take a classic story, substitute a few ingredients, season freely with ...



  • Robert D. San Souci

    Once, an Ojibwa man whose wife had died raised three daughters alone. The two older girls were lazy and bad-tempered, and made their youngest sister do all the work. When the flames from the cooking fire singed her hair or burned her skin, they laugh...







  • Wendy Loggia

    A prince in search of a princess, a domineering baroness and her two daughters, and an orphaned servant girl who sleeps in the ashes by the fireplace....

    By the time Danielle is eight years old, her mother and father have died and she has been...



  • Robert D. San Souci

    A Caldecott Honor author/illustrator team brings us a Caribbean Cinderella story, told from the perspective of the magical godmother. You may think you already know this story about a beautiful servant girl, a cruel stepmother, a magnificent ball, an...



  • Gail Carson Levine

    How can a fairy's blessing be such a curse? At her birth, Ella of Frell was the unfortunate recipient of a foolish fairy's gift--the "gift' of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it's hopping on one foot for a day and a half, o...



  • Nina Jaffe

    Many years ago in Poland, there lived a rabbi who had a wife and three daughters. One day, the rabbi asks his children a powerful question: "How much do you love me?" His older daughters profess their love in gold and diamonds, but his younge...



  • Claire Delacroix

    She was the beauty he couldn't forget. He wouldn't stop searching until he found her... "I come in search of a bride." Once upon a time, the legendary knight, Burke Fitzgavin, galloped into Kiltorren Castle and fell in love with Alys, the lord...



  • Denise Little

    Master storytellers Jody Lynn Nye, Josepha Sherman, John DeChancie, Nancy Springer, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, and others offer delightful new renditions of classic fairy tales, including the story about what happens when the giant's grieving widow i...



  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

    HAPPILY NEVER AFTER It's a familiar story: In spite of the obstacles put in her way by her wicked stepmother, Ella goes to the ball, sweeps Prince Charming off his feet, and is chosen to be his bride. Now she's comfortably ensconced in the palace, a...



  • Gregory Maguire

    We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . ...



  • Gail Carson Levine

    Ralph said, "Rain tomorrow." Burt said, "Barley needs it. You're covered with cinders, Ellis." Ralph thought that was funny. "That's funny." He laughed. "That's what we should call him-- Cinderellis." Burt guffawed.

    In this unusual spin on an old f...






  • Shirley Climo

    A hero's feats?

    Ever since he was a baby, Becan's only worry has been his big feet--until his widowed father remarries. His new stepmothr and her three daughters feed him crusts of bread and banish him to work in the fields. So Becan runs away. ...



  • Susan Lowell

    From the author of The Three Little Javelinas comes a Wild West retelling of the classic Cinderella fairytale, perfect for fans of Little Ree by Ree Drummond, Prince Cinders by Babette Cole, Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson, and Red Riding Hood as ret...



  • Gail Carson Levine

    There's nothing wrong with Wilma Sturtz. She's perfectly nice. But nobody cares about nice at Claverford, her middle school. Wilma is left out, forgotten, ignored--until she meets an extraordinary old lady who grants a wish: for Wilma to be the most ...



  • Robert D. San Souci

    Blessed Mary rewards Teresa's good deeds with a shining gold star. Later she punishes Teresa's unkind stepsisters, Isabel and Inez, with hideous horns and donkey's ears that they try to hide under heavy veils! But will Teresa outshine her...



  • Philip Pullman

    "I WAS A RAT!" So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it's true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of "Rodent Delusion"? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fai...



  • Mavis Jukes

    A hilarious account of preparing for New Year's Eve for the millennium with romance, drama, shopping, two devilish stepsisters, and a happily-ever-after ending.

    Ashley Ella Toral wants to spend the last hours of 1999 and the first hours of the...



  • Vanessa Gill-Brown

    In this hip and expressive fairytale, a dog named Rufferella, whose owner would like to turn him into a female! Their outrageous adventures teach readers to appreciate others for who they are. Told with wit, warmth, and an unusually keen sense of fas...



  • Julia Quinn

    Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball -- or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disd...



  • Hilary Knight

    Hilary Knight imbues the story of Cinderella with characters of the same humor, zest, and personality that have made generations of children and grown-ups fall in love with his most famous creation: Eloise. A pair of pet cats, a blue fairy godmother,...



  • Shirley Climo

    "A luminescent interpretation. Meticulously researched illustrations faithfully depict the ornate beauty of an ancient land" (Kirkus Reviews).

    In this jewel-like version of a classic story, popular folklorist Shirley Climo tells the tale of ...






  • Laura Whipple

    If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. In thirty-three poems it brings to life not only the voices of well-loved characters, but also voices of characters not usually heard from -- including the glas...



  • Mercedes Lackey

    In the land of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, if you can't carry out your legendary role, life is no fairy tale.... Elena Klovis was supposed to be her kingdom's Cinderella--until fate left her with a completely inappropriate prince! So she set out to...



  • Mindy Dwyer

    One of the most popular children's books about Alaska, The Salmon Princess retells the classic Cinderella story through an Alaskan lens.

    In this adaptation of the well-loved fairy tale, the father still has his head in the clouds and the stepm...



  • Jane B. Mason; Sarah Hines Stephens

    ELLA. SNOW. RAPUNZEL. ROSE. Four friends who wait for no prince. With her feet bare (those glass slippers don't fit) and her secondhand gown splattered with mud (thanks, evil stepsisters), Ella's first day of Princess School is off to a lousy st...



  • Mercedes Lackey

    THE EVIL OF BLOOD-FUELED MAGIC Eleanor Robinson's life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter had come that told of her father's death in the trenches and though...



  • Donna Jo Napoli

    YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound ...



  • Shirley Hughes

    The classic story of Cinderella gains even more charm in this glamorous retelling by world-famous picture book writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes. Ella Cinders loves helping her father in his dress shop and laughing with her friend Buttons, the s...



  • Sally Gardner

    The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan pre...



  • Angela Carter

    Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around ...



  • Diane Stanley

    In the little village of Castle Down, in a kingdom plagued by war, lives a peasant girl called Bella. Blessed with a kind family and a loving friend, she manages to create her own small patch of sunlight in a dark and dangerous world. Bella is a blac...






  • Cameron Dokey

    "ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESS Etienne de Brabant is brokenhearted. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second child to ...



  • Melissa Kantor

    Wicked stepmother? Check. Evil stepsisters? Check. Miserable life? Check.Lucy Norton's life has all the makings of a Cinderella story...



  • Paul Fleischman

    Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders. Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon . . . Cind...



  • Robin Palmer

    Prom. The best dress. The best shoes. The best date. Cindy Ella Gold is sick of it all. Prom fever has infected LA -- especially Cindy's two annoying stepsisters, and her overly Botoxed stepmother. Cindy seems to be the only one immune to it all. Bu...



  • Louise Hawes

    . . . and they lived happily ever after. Remember the fairy tales you put away after you found that no princess is as beautiful as common sense and happy endings are just the beginning? Well, the old tales are back, and theyve grown up! Black Pearls ...



  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

    "Somewhere in the world I have a tiara in a little box. It is not safe for me to wear it...It is not safe for me even to tell anyone who I really am. But I know -- I have always known." Cecilia knows that she is not just another peasant girl; she is...



  • Dan Jolley

    From a life filled with heartache and hardship, comes an unmatched beauty destined for a fairy-tale ending: Pear Blossom, a young Korean girl, leads a happy life with her parents-until her mother dies and her father remarries. Her new wicked stepm...



  • Beth Bracken

    Cinderella's wicked stepmother won't let her go to the ball. But with a little help from a Fairy Godmother, she'll be getting there in style. There's just one catch. At midnight, her magical gown will turn back into dirty old rags....



  • Jim C. Hines

    What would happen if an author went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for his plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie's Angels? What's delivered is The Stepsister Scheme?a whole new take on what happened to Cind...



  • Carolyn Turgeon

    Lil is an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore and lonely nights at home in her apartment. But Lil has an intriguing secret. Tucked and bound behind her back are white feathery wings -- the only key to who s...



  • Stella Gibbons

    A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been le...



  • Malinda Lo

    Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams...



  • Jim C. Hines

    There is an old story -- you might have heard it -- about a young mermaid, the daughter of a king, who saved the life of a human prince and fell in love. So innocent was her love, so pure her devotion, that she would pay any price for the chance to b...



  • Marilyn Singer

    What's brewing when two favorites -- poetry and fairy tales -- are turned (literally) on their heads? It's a revolutionary recipe: an infectious new genre of poetry and a lovably modern take on classic stories. First, read the poems forward (how o...



  • Kay Cassidy

    Sixteen-year-old Jess Parker survives by staying invisible. After nine schools in ten years, she's come to terms with life as a perpetual new girl, neither popular nor outcast. At Mt. Sterling High, Jess gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation t...



  • Jessica Day George

    Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program. She travels abroad hoping to find better political alliances and perhaps a marriage. But thanks to a vengeful fairy, Poppy's hap...




  • Jim C. Hines

    Roudette's story was a simple one. A red cape. A wolf. A hunter. Her mother told her she would be safe. so long as she kept to the path. But sometimes the path leads to dark places. Roudette is the hunter now, an assassin known throughout the world ...



  • Julie Berry

    "What is an amaranth?" She smiled faintly. "A mythical flower that never dies." Lucinda Chapdelaine's story begins with a royal ball -- but not in a dancing-and-glass-slippers sort of way. Her parents stepped into a coach, went to the ball, and neve...



  • Eloisa James

    Miss Kate Daltry doesn't believe in fairy tales . . . or happily ever after. Forced by her stepmother to attend a ball, Kate meets a prince . . . and decides he's anything but charming. A clash of wits and wills ensues, but they both know ...



  • Terri Windling

    Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales -- but the villains themselves beg to differ. In Troll's-Eye View, you'll hear from the Giant's wife (Jack and the Beanstalk), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Danci...



  • Bettie Sharpe

    Everyone loves Prince Charming. They have to -- he's cursed. Every man must respect him. Every woman must desire him. One look, and all is lost.Ember would rather carve out a piece of her soul than be enslaved by passions not her own. She turns to th...




  • Aidan Chambers

    In this brand-new collection of short stories, Aidan Chambers explores moments of truth, when a character or an event suddenly reveals an often-surprising meaning: A girl loses her humanity when she takes a summer job as a theme-park character; a boy...



  • Maureen McGowan

    In this fast-paced story full of adventure and romance, Cinderella is more than just a servant girl waiting for her prince -- she's a tough, fearless girl who is capable of taking charge of a dangerous situation. Seeking to escape the clutches of her...



  • Alexandra Gierak

    What does it take to make it in Manhattan? Cynthia Scott will do almost anything for a chance to work in New York Citys fashion industry, even if that means becoming the live-in maid to three spoiled roommates just to make ends meet. While struggling...



  • Charles Perrault

    This book is a charming collection of eight of Charles Perrault's most famous reworkings of popular fairy tales illustrated by Honor C. Appleton's beautiful full page colour illustrations. Contents Include: Preface, To a Certain Little Lady, The Slee...



  • Jim C. Hines

    A broken mirror. A stolen child. A final mission to try to stop an enemy they never dreamed they would face. When a spell gone wrong shatters Snow White's enchanted mirror, a demon escapes into the world. The demon's magic distorts the vision of all...



  • Kenechi Udogu

    When Jo finds a lone glass slipper on the night of the royal ball, she realises that there is more to the seemingly ordinary object than meets the eye. Searching for its owner, she is led to the palace where the princess sets her on a journey that th...



  • Melissa Lemon

    After her father's disappearance, Cinder leaves home for a servant job at the castle. But it isn t long before her sister Ella is brought to the castle herself. What Ella finds there starts a quest that will change her life and the entire kingdom. Wi...



  • Marissa Meyer

    Sixteen-year-old Cinder is considered a technological mistake by most of society and a burden by her stepmother. Being cyborg does have its benefits, though: Cinder's brain interface has given her an uncanny ability to fix things (robots, hovers, her...




  • Veronica Blade

    WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING5-star review by Tifferz on GoodReads "A Bite's Tales is a unique twist on Cinderella meets paranormal meets Jane Austen. This is a sweet story that captivated and entranced me from the get go."5-star review by Vidya-Boo...



  • Alex Flinn

    Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn't. I go to a new school now -- one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not stil...



  • J.A. Kazimer

    I'm no hero. In fact, up until a couple of days ago, I was the villain. Kidnapped maidens, scared kids, stole magic tchotchkes -- until I got into a little scrape with the union. Now I'm cursed with the worst fate in New Never City -- no matter what ...



  • Roy A. Mauritsen

    One Last Chance To Save Happily Ever After! Can a group of heroes, including Goldenhair, Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel, help General Snow White and her dwarven resistance fighters defeat the tyrannical Queen Cinderella? And will they succeed before a...




  • Zoe Marriott

    A powerful tale of magic, love, and revenge set in fairy-tale Japan. Trained in the magical art of shadow-weaving, sixteen-year-old Suzume is able to re-create herself in any form - a fabulous gift for a girl desperate to escape her past. But who ...



  • Kiera Cass

    For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of g...



  • James Riley

    Little mermaids and normal-sized pirates always create the biggest of problems, don't they? After the surprise revelations of HALF UPON A TIME, Jack, May and Phillip could use the help of a fairy godmother or two on their search for May's true ide...



  • Alethea Kontis

    It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets ...



  • Christopher Healy

    Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You've never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the ...



  • Chris Colfer

    ALEX AND CONNER BAILEY'S WORLD IS ABOUT TO CHANGE. When the twins' grandmother gives them a treasured fairy-tale book, they have no idea they're about to enter a land beyond all imagining: the Land of Stories, where fairy tales are real. But as...



  • Sarah J. Maas

    TWO MEN LOVE HER THE WHOLE LAND FEARS HER ONLY SHE CAN SAVE THEM ALL In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeat...



  • Sarah L. Thomson

    Once upon a time, a rich merchant lived with his daughter. He loved the girl for her beautiful face and her sweet heart. But after his wife died, he decided to marry a second time, and his new wife was selfish and cruel. She had two daughters of her ...



  • E.D. Baker

    Now that Annie has helped her sister Gwendolyn (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) wake up from the 100-year curse by finding her beloved prince, you would think that things would get back to normal. Think again! That beloved prince, Beldegard, is stuck in the ...



  • Kate Danley

    Deep within the Wood, a young woman lies dead. Not a mark on her body. No trace of her murderer. Only her chipped glass slippers hint at her identity. The Woodcutter, keeper of the peace between the Twelve Kingdoms of Man and the Realm of the Fae...



  • Lucy Pireel

    Once upon a time ...Little Red Riding Hood took matters in her own handsAnd the miller's daughter struck a flawed deal with RumpelstiltskenIn these--and two more--twisted fairy tales there are no happy endings and you'll find out those heroines are n...



  • Heidi Anne Heiner

    Yeh-hsien. Cenerentola. Cendrillon. Ashenputtle. Chernuska. Cinderella. These are just a few of the names of one of the best known and most beloved fairy tale characters in the world. The tale is known in countless variations throughout Europe and As...



  • Sarah Mlynowski

    Once upon a time my brother and I found a magic mirror. Tonight the mirror swept us into Cinderella's fairy tale. Now, we are NOT messing this story up. No way. Cinderella is going to marry her prince just like she's supposed to. Uh-oh. Cin...



  • Jenni James

    A girl with a secret and a prince on a mission.... When Prince Anthony spies Eleanoria Woodston outside her family home dressed as a servant, he knows something is amiss. Pretending to be John, his cousin's outrider, he decides to take matters into h...



  • Sophie Masson

    Tattercoats lives with her cold grandfather and has just two friends: a servant, Malkin, and a gooseherd, Pug. When an invitation arrives to a ball at the queen's court, Tattercoats is desperate to go -- how can Malkin and Pug help her get there? Fir...



  • Sariah Wilson

    Everyone knows how all those fairy tales go. The princess gets beautiful, nabs her prince, falls instantly in love, lives happily ever after and leaves her evil stepsisters in the dust. But what happens when you're the ugly stepsister and your obnoxi...



  • Cindy C. Bennett

    Amella Augustus has lived as her stepmother Iona's personal servant since her father's death. School is something she can only dream of. She's homeschooled in order for her to have more time to do Iona's bidding.At the dingy Laundromat that Amella fr...



  • Emily Casey

    "More than anything, King Richard feared the zombie outbreak. Now, they neared his palace with every passing day, in growing numbers. One thing was clear to the King: his son must marry a zombie-killer."What happens when you take a classic fairy tale...



  • Eleanor Farjeon

    More than anything, Ella wants to go to the ball at the Royal Palace. But Ella is the slave of the household, waiting on every wish and whim of her horrible stepsisters. They call her Cinderella for the ashes that cling to her face, hands and hair. H...



  • Paul Rudnick

    Inner Beauty wants out. When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she's summoned from her Missouri trailer-park home to meet Tom Kelly, the world's top designer. He makes her an impossible offer: He'll create three dresses to transform Be...



  • Amber T. Smith

    Life isn't a fairy tale . . . except when it is.

    There's nothing wrong with Ella Gibson's life - it just isn't very exciting, despite being surrounded by lingerie. Working for Cardiff's top modeling agency should have been glamorous, but most of th...



  • James Riley

    Will there be happily ever after? Don't miss the fractured-fairy tale conclusion to the action-packed and humor-filled Half Upon a Time trilogy! Jack and May have gone their separate ways, and each is now set on course to fulfill their destiny...o...



  • Ellen Datlow

    Did you ever wonder what happened to the seven dwarfs after Snow White ditched them, or what life was like for the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk?" Can you imagine a wicked stepsister who really gets what she deserves, and a Cinderella who isn't da...



  • Jennifer Kloester

    Let the masquerade begin! Angel Moncoeur has always wanted to be a fashion designer, but without money or connections, it's going to be a challenge. When an opportunity to leave her home in New York and head to Paris appears, Angel grabs it -- even...



  • Sophie Masson

    Cinderella takes fate into her own hands in this brand new tale by Sophie Masson

    Welcome to the story of Cinderella as you've never heard it before. There is�a girl whose fortunes have plummeted from wealthy aristocrat to that of a se...



  • Melanie Dickerson

    Happily Ever After ...Or Happily Nevermore? Gisela's childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. But since her father's death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. So...



  • Christine Pope

    Even the Emperor of Sirlende cannot always do as he pleases, but when custom demands he find another bride after the death of his betrothed, a princess he barely knew, Torric Deveras defies his counselors and changes the rules rather than make a love...



  • Jan Brett

    Jan Brett sets her Cinderella story in a snowy Russian winter where one magical night, Cinders, the most picked upon hen in the flock, becomes the most loved by Prince Cockerel when she arrives at his ball looking so beautiful that even her bossy sis...



  • Ruth Sanderson

    Beautifully illustrated real fairy tale magic

    New in paperback

    Sweet Cinderella is forced to spend her days waiting on her cruel stepsisters and stepmother, almost forgetting that she, too, was once a fine young lady with handsome cl...



  • Joan Holub; Suzanne Williams

    The authors of the hit Goddess Girls series put a fun and girly twist on another super-popular theme: fairy tales! Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia... A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on th...



  • Kristee Ravan

    Fairy tales are naturally non-mathematical. That is a fact, and fifteen-year-old Lily Sparrow loves factual, mathematical logic. So when her mother confesses that Lily's deceased father is (a) not dead, (b) coming to dinner, and (c) the ruler of a fa...



  • Lili St. Crow

    New York Times bestselling author Lili St. Crow thrilled legions of fans with her dark paranormal series Strange Angels. Now she has created a stirringly romantic, deliciously spooky update of Cinderella, the alluring second volume in her trilogy Tal...



  • Rosamund Hodge

    A romantic and fantastical reimagining of the classic Cinderella tale, Gilded Ashes is a novella by Rosamund Hodge set in the same world as the author's debut novel, Sundered. Orphan Maia doesn't see the point of love when it only brings pain: Her...



  • Sarah Raughley

    When Deanna's missing friend Hyde turns up at his father's funeral to claim his corporate empire and inheritance, she is swept into his glittering world of paparazzi and wealth.

    But re-kindling her friendship and the dizzying new emotions alon...



  • Christine Rimmer

    From Texas nanny...to palace princess! It should never have happened -- the night of forbidden magic that turned Lani Vasquez and Prince Maximilian Bravo-Calabretti into lovers. After all, Lani knew all too well that an affair between a lowly nan...



  • Lauren Skidmore

    "The Chameleon is on the loose." Despite the whispers that sprung up, the Speaker continued, "He's stealing our masks and assuming the identities of the victims. It is our duty to warn you -- do not trust the masks alone." In Venesia, your mask is yo...



  • Jeanette Matern

    Midnight Falls is a thrilling retelling of Cinderella.Ella Delaquix is a misjudged, solitary woman who dislikes the attention she receives for her ravishing beauty and wanton disregard for the aristocracy in which she was raised. Unexpectedly she mee...



  • Shonna Slayton

    Cinderella's Dress is a YA fairy-tale retelling set in 1940's New York. Being a teen-ager during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dress is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displa...



  • Tracy Barrett

    What really happened after the clock struck midnight? Jane Montjoy is tired of being a lady. She's tired of pretending to live up to the standards of her mother's noble family -- especially now that the family's wealth is gone and their stately m...



  • Sarah Scheele

    Alyce Lomlossa has never dreamed of visiting King Timson. To a member of a minority group that opposes his rule, his brooding, glum palace is associated only with imprisonment and death. Though it's been a long time since any Sherban was arrested, Al...



  • Christine Norris

    All The World's A Stage, As They Say...In 1876 Philadelphia, Benjamin Grimm knows real life is much like the theater-people play their parts, hiding behind the illusion of their lives and never revealing their secrets. When he reunites with his child...



  • K.M. Shea

    Cinderella may be a duchess, but her life is in tatters. Orphaned, destitute, and living in a country recovering from a hostile takeover, Cinderella is desperate to save her lands and servants. She is so determined that when terrible taxes are placed...



  • Barbara Lieberman

    A fairy tale written at my daughter's request, of love, loyalty, and staying true to oneself. She asked for her own version of "Beauty and the Beast meets Cinderella" and has loved the story ever since....



  • Kelly Oram

    It's been almost a year since eighteen-year-old Ella Rodriguez was in a car accident that left her crippled, scarred, and without a mother. After a very difficult recovery, she's been uprooted across the country and forced into the custody of a fathe...



  • Christine Heppermann

    Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale. Christine Heppermann's collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales ri...



  • Karen Hawkins

    Prince Alexsey Romanovin enjoys his carefree life, flirting -- and more -- with every lovely lady who crosses his path. But when the interfering Duchess Natasha decides it's time for her grandson to wed, Alexsey finds himself in Scotland, determined ...



  • Kelly Martin

    An earl in need of an honorable wife. A servant in love with a man she can't have. An evil plan that was set in motion years ago coming to fruition. Can love conquer betrayal? Or will Emma's fairytale end at midnight? A Cinderella re-telling....



  • Yukimi Ogawa

    Trills of silver, quiver of gold.Pot Head, they called her. Heavy-head, they teased her. In a noble house of dye masters, Island-born Hase is an outcast, ridiculed by her fellow servants and employers -- all because of the smooth, reflective sphere...



  • Kelsey Macke

    Hot girls get the fairy tales. No one cares about the stepsisters' story. Those girls don't get a sweet little ending; they get a lifetime of longing. Imogen Keegen has never had a happily ever after-in fact, she doesn't think they are possible....



  • Elisabeth Grace Foley

    There's no fairy godmothers on the prairie.
    But there just might be a prince.
    Life on her brother's ranch is lonely for Ellie Strickland. Ed's ungracious manners and tight-fisted habits keep visitors away and his mother and sister close to ...




  • Jaclyn Weist

    Sydney's not sure which is worse -- the curse that has her trapped in her dreams every night, or having to deal with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters while she's awake. Just before her seventeenth birthday, her father surprises her with magic ca...



  • Brittany Candau

    Ella is different than most young women in the kingdom. She can quote any Shakespearean play. She befriends every animal she meets, including the scurrying mice living in the walls. She believes in the power of kindness, in changing customs that are ...



  • Shirley Kennedy

    Love can lead you out of the wilderness... 1851, Overland Trail to California. As a baby, Callie was left on the doorstep of an isolated farmhouse in Tennessee. The Whitaker family took her in, but have always considered her more a servant than a ...



  • Cynthia Rylant

    "This is a story about darkness and light, about sorrow and joy, about something lost and something found. This is a story about love." Cinderella's story has been told over and over, but never has it been touched by the kind of magic created by t...



  • Jen Calonita

    Would you send a villain to do a hero's job? Flunked is an exciting new twisted fairy tale from the award-winning author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series. "Charming fairy-tale fun." -Sarah Mlynowski, author of the New York Times bestsell...



  • Sheryl Winters

    For fire talent, Jaden Zarie, life is far from a fairy tale. Blisters from any contact with water, check. Sleeping in a shed behind your greedy Uncle's house, check. Ex-boyfriend scouting the bar where you work for one-night stands every night, doubl...



  • Sarah Pinborough

    The classic Cinderella story is given a sexy contemporary makeover in this wicked fairy tale featuring all the heroes and villains that we know and love: the handsome prince, the fairy godmother, the wretched sisters, and the beautiful girl...



  • Shantelle Mary Hannu

    A MAID, a PRINCE, and a DUKE. A GARDENER, a STEPMOTHER, and a secret . . . Ellie Abbington, a beautiful yet unassuming young woman, quietly longs for her life to change. Too privileged to associate with the servants -- too underprivileged to associat...



  • Aya Ling

    When Kat accidentally rips apart an old picture book, she's magically transported into the world of Cinderella--as Katriona, one of the ugly stepsisters! Life turns upside down now that she's a highborn lady and must learn how to survive the social s...



  • Kailin Gow

    Cynthia Sanders'' life had been a fairy tale up until the day her father brought home a new stepmother and her two stepsisters. Being a modern-day Cinderella never felt more complicated, especially when there are not one, but two princes in the pictu...



  • Betsy Cornwell

    Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her "Mechanica" to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have pushed her into a life of dreary servitude. When she discover...



  • Alicia Buck

    When Ashelandra's father dies, she ends up a servant in her own house, instead of the Baroness she was supposed to become. But Ash's secret sorcery could be the key to winning back her home and following her heart to a future she never imagined. This...



  • Sarah Prineas

    WHEN HAPPILY EVER AFTER IS THE WORST ENDING Pin has no recollection of who she is or how she got to the Godmother's fortress. She only knows that she is a Seamstress, spending day after day making ballgowns fit for fairy tales. Pin feels there's m...



  • Caroline Lee

    Forget glass slippers... this time she's wearing cowboy boots! Ella has grown used to the casual cruelty of her stepsisters, the complete control her wicked stepfather exerts, and the exasperating way the birds and the mice keep bothering her while...



  • Red Morris

    Cindy is a girl who has lost everything and still smiles. When it's announced that a ball will be held in honor of the prince, Cindy can't wait to go. But will all her hard work be for nothing? Will Cindy get her wish or will fate continue to take wh...



  • Chana Keefer

    Follow the adventures of country girl Esther & Sky, the international music icon who stole her heart and turned her world upside down. It's Anne of Green Gables meets Rattle & Hum as Esther's love and faith are stretched to the limit. From...



  • Kristen Reed

    Sometimes one woman's happily ever after is another woman's misery. When the charming Prince Caspar abandons his bride Demetria at the altar to sweep Cinderella off her feet, the duke's daughter is left humiliated and heartbroken. Desperate to lift t...




  • Bridget Hodder

    The Prince of the Rats is changed into Cinderella's coachman on the night of the big ball. Now he and Cinderella must work together to vanquish her wicked stepmother and save the Kingdom of Angland from a terrible threat. With courage, heart, and a d...



  • Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Charming is a kingdom where fairy tales come true, which has been bad news for its troubled royal family, but good news for the gutter press that thrives on the scandals and gossip provided by their teenage Princes Gone Wild. Kai is a rookie repor...



  • Hannah West

    Bristal, an orphaned kitchen maid, lands in a gritty fairy tale gone wrong when she discovers she is an elicromancer with a knack for shape-shifting. An ancient breed of immortal magic beings, elicromancers have been winnowed down to merely two - now...



  • Sarah Gibb

    A beautifully illustrated, magical re-telling of one of the most beloved fairy tales.Cinderella wears rags, and lives as a servant under the watchful eyes of her cruel stepsisters. So, when the King invites everyone to a grand ball for the Prince to ...



  • Finley Aaron

    Everything you've been told is wrong. Oh, not everything, I suppose. Yes, I turned a pumpkin into a coach and mice into horses. The stroke of midnight, the glass slippers, and the prince searching for a girl whose foot fit the shoe...those were all p...



  • Allison Tebo

    Burndee is a young and cantankerous fairy godfather, who would rather bake cakes than help humans. A disgrace to the fairy order, Burndee has only two wards entrusted to his care...a cinder girl and a charming prince. A royal ball presents Burndee wi...



  • Lucy McConnell

    A contemporary Cinderella novella you must read.Meet Beau Mckay, Atlanta's blockbuster actor and self-proclaimed player. He's known for his tough-guy roles and cleft chin but there's more to Beau than a pretty face and taut muscles as Cindy Knight is...



  • Juliette Cross

    Cinderella like you've never seen before... With the threat of the vampire monarchy becoming stronger every day, the Black Lily must take drastic measures. As the leader of the underground resistance, Arabelle concocts the perfect idea to gain the...



  • Lisa Shea

    Cinderella made a vow to her mother, before her mother tragically passed away on midwinter's day. Ella had sworn to watch over her father and care for him. But then her father had married anew. Her stepmother and two stepsisters took sharp delight in...



  • Ashley Poston

    Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale. � Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes�Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching�with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a ...



  • Lisa J. Flickinger

    Ella Goodwin, abandoned by her father and abused by her stepsister, seeks to make sense of her new life as a prisoner in her own home. Squirreled away in the attic, she lets her imagination soar by designing and sewing a magnificent gown. However, al...



  • Lynn Roberts-Maloney

    Blinded by love, Cinderella's father marries unwisely and brings home a heartless wife, and her wicked daughters, Elvira and Ermintrude. They will stop at nothing to make life miserable for Cinderella. On the day of a grand ball at the Palace, the st...




  • David Clawson

    Chris Bellows is just trying to get through high school and survive being the only stepchild in the social-climbing Fontaine family, whose recently diminished fortune hasn't dimmed their desire to mingle with Upper East Side society. Chris sometimes ...



  • Joanna Mazurkiewicz

    Modern retelling of Cinderella with a Vampire twist! 18+ Tired of waiting around for true love, Cindy--a young girl from the Farrington Kingdom whose father died years ago, decides to take matters into her own hands. King Caspian II organises a ball ...



  • Carly Morgan

    Catherine St. James is a librarian in the tourist town of Bandon, Oregon. She's poor by the world's standards, but she loves what she does and what she has is sufficient for her needs. She doesn't want glass slippers, a grand ball, or Prince Charming...



  • Kaylin Lee

    All Cinderella wants is to take care of her family.After working tirelessly for five years to prove herself among the city's elite, she's about to graduate and win a coveted spot in city government. Then it all blows up in her face -- literally.A vio...



  • K.L. Zales

    Cindy has been growing closer to Justin, her boss and the CEO of Gobbly. They've grown so close, in fact, that she cannot imagine life without him. He's helped her stand up to her terrible stepmother and stepsisters, and she's given Justin the str...



  • Jerry Mahoney

    Holden, what have you done?! It wasn't enough to ruin Maddie's report on Cinderella, but now you've somehow broken the ACTUAL fairy tale? The ugly stepsister is marrying the prince and there's no happy ever after! You need to fix this and the only wa...



  • Madina Papadopoulos

    Once upon a time, in a land far, far away... ...(actually, in Medieval France, to be exact) there lived Cinderella's stepsisters, Fredegonde the tall and Javotte the small. They wake up the morning after the legendary ball to learn that they each sti...



  • F.M. Boughan

    CINDERELLA,NECROMANCER is CHIME meets ANNA, DRESSED IN BLOOD and was inspired by a real medieval grimoire of necromancy from 15th-century Germany.

    Ellison lost her mother at an early age. But since then, her father has found love again. He...



  • Victorine E. Lieske

    When Isabella accidentally switches phones with Chase Hawkins, the hottest guy in school, she finds herself making an unexpected connection with her secret crush. There's only one problem: her awful stepmother and two horrible stepsisters would freak...



  • Cassandra Gannon

    Once Upon a Time...Scarlett Riding is NOT an ugly stepsister. Cinderella is the evil one in the family and Letty is determined to prove it. Unfortunately, that's kinda hard to do from behind bars. After the debacle at the ball, Letty and her sister D...



  • Danielle Steel

    A wonderful, beautifully told tale from America's favorite novelist, FAIRYTALE is a captivating example of the truths that will always withstand even the darkest storms, and a reminder that sometimes fairytales do come true, and good prevails over ev...



  • Victoria Leybourne

    Love is a kind of magic... When Chiara's father died, he left her a pair of glass slippers and a promise: that life would one day lead her back to love. With her world about to collapse, though, she needs something a bit more practical, like money. O...



  • Ursula Vernon

    A funny, feminist twist on the Cinderella fairy tale for fans of fractured fairy tales Princess Harriet Hamsterbone is not the kind of princess who enjoys fancy dresses or extravagant parties. Cliff-diving, fractions, and whacking people with swor...




  • Laurie Lucking

    Only one person knows of the plot against the royal family and cares enough to try to stop it -- the servant girl they banished.Leah spends her days scrubbing floors, polishing silver, and meekly curtsying to nobility. Nothing distinguishes her from ...



  • Jen Wang

    Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by s...



  • Elizabeth Rose

    Can a forgotten love be rekindled before it is too late?The de Bar siblings continue to be cursed by the old witch, Hecuba as Cinderella's memories of her past are stripped away. Ella can't remember who she is, or even Sir William, the man she loves....



  • J. Conrad

    A girl looking for answers - and her own piece of happiness.A cruel witch looking to destroy her.A wolf who can change everything.Once upon a time, little Elin Kendrick lost her mother, and b...



  • J. Conrad

    Cinderella meets epic fantasy...Having telepathic powers isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially when it only works with animals. And especially when it works best with... wolves. Giant, terrifying ones included.I've seen some strange things. And...



  • Yesenia Vargas

    *99 cents for a limited time only!* A modern-day teenage Cinderella. An all-star varsity basketball player. Will the chemistry disappear when they go from anonymous to face-to-face? Geeky Ella Reyes is at the bottom of the totem pole at Westwood High...



  • Hester Velmans

    Meet the woman whose life inspired the world's most famous tale... Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance -- a pair of glass-beaded slippers -- s...



  • Lyssa Chiavari

    Once upon a time is eternal... Turn the pages and fall into the enchanting worlds of beloved, age-old fairy tales made new again in this fifteen-story collection from Snowy Wings Publishing. A girl with long, long hair is trapped in an attic, ensnare...



  • Sarah Price

    In Sarah Price's heartwarming Amish version of this best-loved fairytale, a hardworking, overlooked young woman is rewarded in unexpected ways... "Be kind and have faith." Ella Troyer strives to abide by her mother's final words, although life in ...



  • C.G. Drews

    An emotionally charged story about the power of dreams, and how passion can turn to obsession.Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day...



  • Aron Lewes

    What if Prince Charming wasn't so charming?When the glass slipper fits and the handsome prince proposes, Cinderella expects a happily ever after. Free from her stepmother's clutches, she thinks she's bound for a better life.She couldn't be more wrong...



  • Danielle Teller

    In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel u...



  • E.L. Tenenbaum

    Would Snow White or Sleeping Beauty have warned me had I asked for the truth? That 'Happily Ever After' doesn't exist? When the invitation to the prince's ball was put in her hands, Ella imagined a single night of wonder, a single night to escape her...




  • Elle Beaumont

    What if Cinderella was, in fact, a goddess, thrown from the heavens by her wicked half-sisters? In this Cinderella retelling, you'll be swept away in a fantastical world and when the clock strikes midnight blood is shed.�

    Whe...



  • Mary E. Twomey

    Sometimes you can't get by on charm alone. Prince Henry is used to fielding the pitfalls of fame, even when he has to dodge threats on his life. With the political climate growing dangerously volatile, everyone he comes near is suspect for trying to...



  • A.G. Marshall

    Cinderella stared at the spider."Let me make sure I understand. You and your family will spin a dress for me and help me get to the ball if I pass a law that lets you live safely in the palace if I marry the prince?""That's right," the spider said. "...



  • M.J. Haag

    Not all fairy tales are ribbons and roses.In a world where the measure of a person rarely goes beneath the surface, Margaret Thoning refuses to play by its rules. Unwilling to compromise her ideals, she walks away from everything she's ever known to ...