Fractured Fairy Tales--Cyborgs and Zombies and Witches! Oh, my!

Prime time television is ripe this Fall with fairy tale spin-offs. ABC's Once Upon a Time is a mash-up of some of your favorite heroes, heroines, and villains! This Present.me features popular Young Adult novels with a fairy tale twist in conjunction with our English I classes experimenting with their own fractured fairy tales.  




Looking for more fantastic ideas for your teen readers?  Visit 
Media Mania—Magic and Mayhem: Mesmerizing Fairy Tale Retellings for Teens at SLJ.com for Joy Fleishhacker's list of top pics. 

What's your favorite fractured fairy tale?

Revenge, Loyalty, Love and Tragedy: Building Connections to Romeo and Juliet Through YA Book Trailers

Book Trailer: Fever 1793

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Book Trailer: The Mockingbirds

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney

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Book Trailer: Ship Breaker

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacipalupi

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Mythology Book Talk

Each year our freshmen English I classes study classical Mythology.  Man, did I love teaching the literature in English I!  I mean, seriously,  The Odyssey, Mythology, Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird...you don't get much better than that!

I wish that when I was leading students through an exploration of classical mythology, I had shared more books with them that borrow from it.  Part of the reason why I didn't was because I didn't know many!  But, now I have more to share than I have the time and space to do so.  Today, I posted a book talk sharing four YA novels that are inspired by mythology or spin-offs.

Enjoy!