Card, Scott Orson
Enchantment
Ballantine, 1999
YA Car
A sleeping beauty adaptation when a young man, now an American college
student, returns to the place where in the Carpathian forest years
where before he found the Princess Katerina laying as still as death.
At that time he ran in fear. He again returns, and this time, doesn't
run, but awakens the princess with a kiss, and is swept back in a time of 1000 years before.
Dokey, Cameron
Beauty Sleep
Simon Pulse, 2002
YA PB Dok
A sleeping beauty story, given a new voice, and showing that love
itself is actually the most powerful magic of all.
Galloway, Priscilla
The Courtesan's Daughter
Delacort Press, 2002
YA Gal
From humble beginnings, Phano rises to become one of ancient Athen's
most powerful citizens through her marriage to Theo, but they both
have powerful enemies who don't share their political views.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Just Ella
Simon and Schuster, 1999
YA Had
Fifteen year old Ella finds that by accepting Prince Charming's
proposal, she finds herself entangled in a web of difficult rules that
she finds intolerable, and plans to run away.
Jukes, Mavis
Cinderella 2000
Delacorte, 1999
YA Juk
Fourteen year old Ashley has her heart set on spending New Years Eve
at a country club party with her almost boyfriend, but her stepmother
and stepsisters come close to ruining it.
Napoli, Donna Jo
Zel
Puffin, 1996
YA Nap
Based on the fairy tale, Rapunzel, the story is told from the
alternating point of view of Zel, her mother, and the princess. The
story delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
Napoli, Donna Jo
Spinners
Dutton, 1999
YA Nap
Elaborates the events which occur in the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin,
in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw
into gold for the king, in turn for giving up her first born child.
Voigt, Cynthia
Elske
Antheneum, 1999
YA Voi
Thirteen year old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hand of
the leaders of her barbaric society and later becomes handmaiden to a
rebellious noblewoman whose rightful throne together they reclaim.