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Classics revamped

New twists on classic stories, fairy tales and myths. Selected by Ben W.

Hennepin County Library

23 items

  • Beastkeeper Koffi and warrior candidate Ekontwo venture into the Greater Jungle to hunt down a monster that has menaced their city for a century. #1 of the Beasts of Prey series, inspired by African mythology.
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] — Teen Fiction Book
  • In this reimagining of "The Three Musketeers," Tania de Batz, a skilled, disabled swordswoman, sets out to become a champion at the art and avenge the death of her murdered father.
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2022] — Teen Fiction Book
  • In 1942, at the dawn of World War II, three sisters go their separate ways out of grief over the death of their fourth sister Beth... only to learn that the only way to survive grief and war is together. Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — Teen Fiction Book
  • In this retelling of the Korean folk legend of Shim Cheong, sixteen-year-old Mina is swept away to the Spirit Realm, where she sets out to awaken the sleeping Sea God to save her homeland and family from deadly storms.
    BookNew York, NY : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. — Teen Fiction Book
  • This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre.
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2019. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Inspired by Persian folklore is the story of Alizeh, long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom, who is forced into hiding as a servant to the crown... until the day she will uproot the kingdom--and the world. #1 of the This Woven Kingdom…
    BookNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — Teen Fiction Book
  • Growing up on a magical island in the 1920s, eighteen-year-old Mae and her friends begin to the unravel its mysteries and a secret from Mae's past. Loosely based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — Teen Fiction Book
  • The events of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2018] — Teen Fiction Book
  • In this gothic thriller inspired by H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle. #1 of The Madman's Daughter…
    BookNew York : Balzer + Bray, c2013. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Sprinkled with elements from the ancient epic poem Beowulf is this tale of a teen misfit who resolves to defeat a local bully, triggering a domino effect of complications.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. — Teen Fiction Book
  • A modern take on the King Arthur legend, set at the University of North Carolina. #1 in the Legendborn series.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2020] — Teen Fiction Book
  • A spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel.
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2022. — Teen Fiction Book
  • When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan.
    BookNew York : Swoon Reads, 2021. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Some dangers are too powerful for even the strongest love. In this retelling of the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice, Eury and Pheus must fight for each other and their lives.
    BookNew York, NY : Bloomsbury YA, 2020. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Former lovers, Roma and Juliette, must reunite to battle an infectious madness, which threatens to overtake mid-1920s Shanghai.
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. — Teen Fiction Book
  • In a twist on Moby Dick, a proud warrior whale pod attacks a ship before pursuing a near-mythical foe on a vengeful hunt, which risks the worlds of both whales and humans.
    BookNew York : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — Teen Fiction Book
  • Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Red Shoes" becomes a modern story of passion and betrayal, when a mysterious pair of shoes forces the wearer to dance.
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Shipwrecks come in many forms. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is this romantic tale showing that life can be embraced again even after enduring a tragedy.
    BookLos Angeles : Hyperion, 2019. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is modernized with elements of Crazy Rich Asians and Gossip Girl, set in modern-day Manhattan. #1 in the Anna K series.
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2020. — Teen Fiction Book
  • Alice battles monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland. Meanwhile, ordinary life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple. #1 in the Nightmare-verse series.
    BookNew York, NY : Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2018. — Teen Fiction Book