Fractured Fairy Tales & Chic Lit

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

 by Eugene Trivizas 

 Grade 2-5                                                                                          

Three little wolves set out on their own to build a house.  There mother warns them to watch out for the big bad pig. They build a house of brick, a house of cement, and a house of steel. What will stop the big bad pig?

                                            

Cinder Edna
by Ellen Jackson

Grade 2-5

Cinderella and Cinder Edna are neighbors.  They both have a difficult life scrubbing and working to take care of their stepmother and stepsisters.   While Cinderella looks to her fairy godmother for help, Cinder Edna helps herself.  When a ball is announced at the castle, they both go looking for a prince.

Cinder-Elly

by Frances Minters 
Grade K-4


Cinder-Elly has to stay home and clean for her mean sisters all the time and never got to go to New York City to have fun.  When she is invited with her sisters to a basketball game, she is told to stay home because she is too young and has nothing to wear. 

Jack and the Giant

by Jim Harris
Grade K-4

Jack and his mom Annie Okey-Dokey need money since all their cattle were stolen by a no-good giant.  When Jack is sent to town to sell thier cow for money he trades him for some magic beans.  He awakes in the morning to find a giant beanstalk and grabs his boots and stetson as he sets out to find where it leads. 

Good Little Wolf

by Nadia Shireen
Grade K-3



Rolf is a good little wolf.  His best friend Mrs. Boggins tells him that all wolves are not good.  Rolf meets the big bad wolf and tries to do the things that he does.  Will Rolf listen to the big bad wolf?

Sleeping Ugly
by Jane Yolen
Grade K-4

Princess Miserella may be beautiful on the outside but she is very ugly on the inside.  When she gets lost in the woods one day she comes upon a fairy.  The fairy takes her to plain Jane's house and grants Jane three wishes for being so kind. 

Chic Lit

The Fasion Disaster that Changed My Life
by Lauren Myracle
Grade 5-8

Alli is super excited about her first day of 7th grade.  She missed most of sixth grade because she was very sick and now wants to start a new year off right.  She goes to class and immediately has everyone's attention but not for the reason she wants.  Alli finds herself stuck between the popular crowd that she longs to be with and her not so popular friends that she has been with for years.






ttyl
by Lauren Myracle
Grade 7-12


Three teenage girls that have been friends for years pledge to be friends forever. They each face big bumps in the road as they journey through their sophmore year as they instant message each other daily.  One with boy troubles, one with teacher troubles and one with friend and parent troubles.  Will they remain friends?