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Year Eight: Fairytales Revisited

Year Eight ROAD

The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Instructions by Neil Gaiman

Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill

Frogkisser by Garth Nix

The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan

The Restless Girls by Jessie Burton

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Tinder by Sally Gardner

The Princess Bride by William Golding

The End of the World is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

Valentine by Jodi McAlister

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Sarah J. Maas meets Holly Black with an OzYA twist. Valentine is the first book in Jodi McAlister's page-turning paranormal YA series featuring Pearl Linford and Finn Blacklin.

Strange and terrible things begin to happen to four teenagers – all born on the same Valentine’s Day. One of these teenagers is the Valentine: a Seelie fairy changeling swapped for a human child at its birth. The Unseelie have come to kill the Valentine – except they don’t know who it is.

Pearl shares a birthday with Finn Blacklin. She’s known him all her life and disliked every second of it. But now Pearl and Finn must work together to protect themselves from the sinister forces that are seeking them out.

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Hunted by Meagan Spooner

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

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The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

The Siren by Keira Cass

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

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Magonia by Maria D Headley

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Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.

So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.

Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.

Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?

Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in this New York Times bestselling story about a girl caught between two worlds, two races, and two destinies.

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Grim Tales for Young and Old by Philip Pullman