Fairy tales, fables, folklore and trickster tales: Young adult
This guide lists children's books of fairy tales, fables, folklore, and trickster tales in Cubberley Library.
Young adult
Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore
Publication Date: 2022Lexile measure HL740L; Ages 14 and up; Gr.9 and up.
Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with her sister, the royal entourage, and the world's only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon she saved at the end of Winterkeep. During the crossing, Hava makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship's crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must endure a harrowing trek across the ice to make it back to Monsea.Unbirthday by Liz Braswell
Publication Date: 2020Ages 12 and up; Gr.9 and up.
What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late? Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She'd rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian's lively salon, ignoring her sister's wishes that she stop all that "nonsense" and become a "respectable" member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao's teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She's also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she's curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming. But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects--the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar.
2012-2019
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Call Number: Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3604 .O563 S74 2019Lexile measure 640; Ages 12 and up; Gr.9 and up.
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Publication Date: 2018Lexile measure HL760L; Ages 14 and up; Gr.9 and up
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.A thousand nights by E. K. Johnston
Publication Date: 2015Ages 13 and up; Gr.9-12.
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next. And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments. She sees everything as if for the last time. But the first sun rises and sets, and she is not dead. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise.Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Call Number: Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PN6790 .C23 C378 2014Lexile measure GN550L; Ages 14-17; Gr.8 and up.
Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong.Lies, knives and girls in red dresses by Ron Koertge; Andrea Dezsö (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2012Ages 16 and up; Gr.10-12.
Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales.Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners.
Before 2012
Ash by Malinda Lo
Publication Date: 2010Lexile measure 1050; Ages 12-18; Gr.8-12.
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, someday the fairies will steal her away. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa.Trickster by Matt Dembicki (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2010Ages 10 and up; Gr.8-12.
All cultures have tales of the trickster - a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven.Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Call Number: Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .E673 I47 2008Lexile measure 0670; ages 12-up; Book level 4.6; gr.9-12.
Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that the women of her family have been cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible tasks or to fall into madness upon their child as birth. But Lucy is the first girl who won at be alone as she tackles the list. She has her fiercely protective foster parents and her childhood friend Zach beside her. Do they have love and strength enough to overcome an age-old evil?Troll bridge : a rock 'n' roll fairy tale by Jane Yolen; Adam Stemple
Publication Date: 2006Ages 12-18.
For sixteen-year-old harpist prodigy Moira, the annual Dairy Princess event in Vanderby is just another lame publicity "op." Moira a dairy princess? Get real. Twelve girls have been selected to have their likeness carved in butter and displayed on the Trollholm Bridge. It's a Vanderby State Fair tradition that has been going on for, like, ever.Briar Rose by Jane Yolen; Terri Windling (Based on a work by)
Publication Date: 2002Lexile measure 820; Book level 5; Ages 12-18.
Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror.
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