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1) Briar Rose
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As a little girl, Rebecca Berlin found magic in listening to her grandmother, Gemma, tell the story of Briar Rose. Years later, as a young woman, Becca learned the real story. "I am Briar Rose," whispers Gemma as she lies dying. Her words launch her granddaughter on a journey of discovery to wartime Poland, Nazi death camps and Gemma's mysterious past. In keeping with such a journey, Linda Stephens's reading vibrates with imaginative characterizations...
2) Enchantment
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In a Russian forest, a New York scholar awakens a sleeping princess with a kiss and she takes him to the 9th century. They are forced to return to the present, pursued by a witch who hijacks an airliner. One adventure follows another and there is a happy ending. By the author of Heartfire.
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In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
5) Spindle fire
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Spindle fire volume 1
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It all started with the burning of the spindles. No. It all started with a curse... Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king's headstrong illegitimate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora, beautiful and sheltered, was tithed her sense of touch and her voice on the same day. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been extremely close. And then everything changes, with a single drop of Aurora's...
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Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love's kiss. You've heard this before, haven't you? The handsome prince. The happily ever after. Utter nonsense. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I...
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Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 2
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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It should be simple -- a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape -- created from her very own dreams. Aurora isn't alone --...
8) Briarheart
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"When Miriam's younger sister, Princess Aurora, is born, she must learn to harness her new magical powers to protect her sister and the kingdom"--
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Sisters ever after volume 2
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"When Tirza is accused of stealing Queen Ella's glass slippers, she must find the true culprit before the King and Queen lose their patience"--
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Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
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Princess Rosa's palace has been under a sleeping spell for one hundred years, and the spell will end at sunset; but Princess Rosa sleepwalks and when Kara and Zed enter the palace they find that she is missing--and the two fairies, Miranda and her son Leon, that have been caring for the sleepers do not seem particularly anxious to find her before the spell resets for another hundred years.