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Name of Book: The Grimm Legacy Author: Polly Shulman Illustrator: None Publisher: Puffin Books, 2011 (Reprint edition) ISBN: 9780142419045 Audience: ages 10+ Summary:  Elizabeth Rew’s life has all the elements of a good fairy tale.  Her mother has died; her father has remarried

Name of Book: The Magic Circle Author: Donna Jo Napoli Illustrator: unknown Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books ISBN:  0525451277 Audience: Ages 10 and up Summary:   Author Donna Jo Napoli provides different voices and perspectives in her re-fashioning of well known fairy tales

Name of Book:  Ella Enchanted Author:  Gail Carson Levine Publisher:  Harper Trophy ISBN-10: 0-06-440705-5 Audience:  Age 8 and up Summary:  Ella Enchanted tells the story of Ella who at birth is given the “gift” of obedience by the fairy, Lucinda. Ella explains that this “gift”

Name of Book: Sleeping Ugly Author: Jane Yolen Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 978-0698115606 Audience: Grades K-4 Summary: Princess Miserella is as miserable as her name. She sees an old woman asleep under a tree, kicks her and demands to be lead back to her home. The old woman instead