ENTER THREE WITCHES: A STORY OF MACBETH
by Caroline B. Cooney
When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and lady Macbeth.

THE BIG OVER EASY: A NURSERY CRIME
by Jasper Fforde
Detective Jack Spratt, recently unable to convict three wily pigs in the murder of a certain wolf, meets the challenge of a new case when Humpty Dumpty is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shady part of town.

THE EYRE AFFAIR
by Jasper Fforde
England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career.

ROMEO'S EX: ROSALINE'S STORY
by Lisa Fiedler
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, sixteen-year-old Rosaline, who is studying to be a healer, becomes romantically entangled with the Montague family even as her beloved young cousin, Juliet Capulet, defies the family feud to secretly marry Romeo.

CORBENIC
by Catherine Fisher
In this modern day version of Perceval and the Holy Grail, a guilt-ridden British teenager leaves his mentally ill mother to live with his wealthy uncle and begins a journey of self-knowledge and redemption after being briefly transported to the Waste Land of Arthurian times.

RENFIELD: SLAVE OF DRACULA
by Barbara Hambly
This imaginative novel puts a fresh and frightening new spin on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as it focuses on his mad servant Renfield.

UNDERCOVER
by Beth Kephart
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed, except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.

OPHELIA: A NOVEL
by Lisa M. Klein
In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.

SON OF THE MOB
by Gordon Korman
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

WUTHERING HIGH: A BARD ACADEMY NOVEL
by Cara Lockwood
Miranda, a "troubled" 15-year-old from Chicago is shipped off to Bard Academy after smashing up her father's car and going to town with her stepmother's credit cards. It doesn't take her long to discover that Bard Academy isn't all it's cracked up to be--it may even be haunted!

THE SCARLET LETTERMAN: A BARD ACADEMY NOVEL
by Cara Lockwood
After a heroic first semester, Miranda's got Bard Academy's ghost faculty in her debt, a new boyfriend, Ryan Kent, and she's just turned in a paper about The Scarlet Letter that she's sure is A material. But when the Bard Queen Bee claims she's attacked in the woods, Ryan is all too happy to play bodyguard. Then teachers start disappearing and the campus is abuzz with news of the Hooded Sweatshirt Stalker–not to mention sightings of a monster in the woods. But it's Miranda who feels like a moving target when she is accused not only of plagiarism but of suspicious involvement in the attacks!

CYRANO
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.

LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE
by Carolyn Meyer
Anne Hathaway has always dreamed of leaving the small cottage where she and her siblings live with their critical stepmother, and when Will Shakespeare returns home and begins showing a serious interest in her, Anne must decide whether to follow her heart or play by the rules.

THE DASHWOOD SISTERS' SECRETS OF LOVE
by Rosie Rushton
The Walker sisters have always lived a privileged life in their beloved Holly House in Sussex. Even though their father, Max Walker, has left the family to live with his new macrobiotic-food-obsessed trophy wife, Pandora, he has always doted on his girls. But then one day, reality crashes down around them when Max has a heart attack and passes away, uncovering the truth that he was knee deep in debt.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
by Marilyn Sachs
Rereading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice over Christmas break gives brainy, fifteen-year-old Alice a different way of looking at herself, her first boyfriend, her friends, and her family.

AVALON HIGH
by Meg Cabot
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

AVALON HIGH CORONATION, VOLUME 1: THE MERLIN PROPHECY
by Meg Cabot
Being a new student at Avalon High has been exciting for Ellie, to say the least. And she's dating the super-hot class president, Will, who also happens to be the alleged reincarnation of King Arthur.

FLAVOR OF THE WEEK
by Tucker Shaw
Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends with Rose but wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly creates. Includes recipes from the story.

ENTHUSIASM
by Polly Shulman
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.

PEMBERLEY, OR, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE CONTINUED
by Emma Tennant
As happy as she has been living in relative seclusion with Mr. Darcy and his sister Georgiana at their magnificent Derbyshire estate, Pemberley, Elizabeth is sensible that the time has come to invite her mother and sister to visit her. What begins as a small and manageable family party soon grows all out of proportion. When Darcy becomes increasingly distant and Elizabeth falls prey to vicious gossip, the forces of pride and prejudice are at work once again.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ALFRED KROPP
by Richard Yancey
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.

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