# Fantasy books about fairy tales

**3** fantasy books that explore fairy tales, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Fantasy  ·  **Theme:** fairy tales
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Fantasy fairy tales reading list

- [A Tale Dark and Grimm](https://readinglist.school/book/a-tale-dark-and-grimm) by Adam Gidwitz _(Grades 4–7 · pub 2010)_
- [The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell](https://readinglist.school/book/the-land-of-stories-the-wishing-spell) by Chris Colfer _(Grades 3–7 · pub 2012)_
- [The Wishing Spell](https://readinglist.school/book/the-wishing-spell) by Chris Colfer _(Grades 3–8 · pub 1990)_

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