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I had asked for suggestions for my middle school (grades 6-8) summer reading list 
of titles that take a fairy tale past the ending or tell a different version of it. 
 Thanks to everyone for responding.  I came up with a great list.  Below are the 
titles suggested in no particular order.

JoAnn Bronschidle, SLMS
Mahopac Middle School
Mahopac, NY
bronsch@aol.com

Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
Goose Chase - Patrice Kindl
Just Ella - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Spinners - Donna Jo Napoli
Straw into Gold - Gay D. Schmidt
Zel - Donna Jo Napoli
Rumpelstiltskin Problem - Vivian Vande Velde
Spindle's End - Robin mcKinley
Tales of Brother Grimm and sister Weird - Vivian Vande Velde
Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairly Tales - Ellen
  Datlow, ed.
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our
   Life and Times - James Finn Garner
Outlaws of Sherwood - Robin McKinley
Crazy Such - Donna Jo Napoli
Daughter of the Forest - Juliet mariller
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill - Gail Carson Levine
The Fairy's Mistake - Gail Carson Levine
Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep - Gail Carson Levine
Two Princesses of Barmarre - Gail Carson Levine
Untold Tales - Wm. J. Brooke
Sirenna - Donna Jo Napoli
Weezie Bat - Francesca Bloch
Teller of Tales and Untold Tales - Wm. J. Brooke
Beauty - Sheri S. Tepper
Tam Lin, Rose White, Thomas the Rhymer - all edited by
   Charles de Lint and Jane Yolen
rose Daughter - Robin McKinley
well-wished - Franny Billingsley
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - MaQuire
Dream Weaver - Jane Yolen
Ever After - Loggia
Princess Bride - Goldman

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