Juvenile & Young Adult / Legends, Myths, Fables

Gil Marsh

by A.C.E. Bauer

Good looking, athletic, and smart, Gill Marsh is the most popular kid at Uruk High School, even though he is only a junior. When Enko, a new kid from Montreal, shows up, Gil is wary. Yet Enko is easy going and...

Runemarks

by Joanne Harris

Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again. . . . Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith’s world, order...

Shadow Dragons

by James A. Owen

The Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica are at war. The Imperial Cartological Society, led by Richard Burton, have collected all of the doors from the Keep of Time, and are building a new tower in our...

Once Upon a Toad

by Heather Vogel Frederick

A girl gets into a mouthful of trouble in this “toadally” fractured fairy tale, from the author of the Mother-Daughter Book Club series.

Once upon a time, Cat Starr lived with her astronaut mom in Houston....

Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold

by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly...

A Wolf at the Door: and Other Retold Fairy Tales

by Tristan Ellwell, Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow

These are not your mother's fairy tales...

Did you ever wonder how the dwarves felt after Snow White ditched them for the prince? Do you sometimes wish Cinderella hadn't been so helpless and petite? Are you ready...

Wolfcry

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Oliza Shardae Cobriana is heir to Wyvern's Court, home of the avians and serpiente, whose war with each other ended just before Oliza was born. But hatred is slow to die, and not everyone likes the expressive...

Corydon and the Siege of Troy

Corydon & The Gods and Monsters of Ancient Greece #3

by Tobias Druitt

After the destruction of the city of Atlantis, Corydon is in a selfimposed exile. Clearly his presence only puts his friends in danger. And so he hides out in the desert, tending to goats and camels, keeping...

The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

by Candace Fleming

Here's a chapter book with all the kid appeal and absurd mayhem of Louis Sachar's classic Sideways Stories from Wayside School! These hilarious fables, complete with morals, will make you wish you went to Aesop...

Enlightening Tales

by Swami Satchidananda, Uma Schreiber & Swami Karunananda

Here is a storybook for everyone-with lions and kings, rogues and saints, a boy who can stop an elephant, and a milkmaid who can walk on water! Filled with wisdom, adventure, and surprises, these timeless tales...

Me, My Elf & I

by Heather Swain

It's not often you see an elf in the middle of Brooklyn, let alone a tall, blond, gorgeous elf in the middle of one of the most prestigious performing arts high schools in the country. And yet, that's just where...

The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale

by Susan Cooper & Warwick Hutton

An ancient Welsh tale is given new life in this magical picture book from the author of The Dark Is Rising series.

When young Huw plays his harp on the mountains above his father’s farm, he does not realize...

Hero

by Mike Lupica

Zach Harriman knew that his dad was something of a hero, a man trusted by the president to solve international crises at a moment's notice. Suddenly people are telling him he has powers - people who know much...

East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North

by Kay Nielsen, Peter Christen Asbjornsen & Jorgen Engebretsen Moe

A collection of Norwegian folk tales with magnificent illustrations by Kay Nielsen.

The Curse of Deadman's Forest

by Victoria Laurie

The Curse of Deadman's Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keep—a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the action-packed adventure of a modern...

A Beautiful Evil

by Kelly Keaton

Ari struggles with a power she can’t deny—and a destiny she’s determined to fight—in this dark and sexy sequel to Darkness Becomes Her.

When Ari first arrived in the dilapidated city of New 2, all she...

Beowulf: A New Telling

by Robert Nye

He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his  victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail  of blood is all that remains. He is a monster,  Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear.

  Hrothgar,...

Just Ella

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Being a princess isn't all that....

You've heard the fairytale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after...

     Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper...

The Fire Opal

by Regina Mcbride

There was a time when Maeve O'Tullagh led a simple life; a time when she and her mother, Nuala, collected kelp on the foreshore near their cottage in Ard Macha; a time when she played among the Celtic ruins...

The Blue Shoe: A Tale of Thievery, Villainy, Sorcery, and Shoes

by Roderick Townley & Mary Grandpre

It was only one shoe. It fit no one. But everyone wanted it.

Hap Barlo sits in a cell, wondering how it had all gone so wrong. The blue shoe was ruined, the girl he’d been trying to help was missing, and he’d...