This week’s Butler Bookshelf features fun fairy tale retellings, modern fairy tales, and alternative villain stories of fairy tales. For instance, Lauren DeStefano’s The Lost Ones is the second in her Dark Ascension villain-centered series in which readers meet Captain Hook, and his twin sister, as a teenager. Before he was Captain Hook, James was a modest teenager in a small village, seeking adventure, joy, and his place in the world. When his twin sister, Marlene, wishes themselves into a magical place called Never Land, the twins find themselves suddenly entwined in a war that pulls themselves further and further from each other and their home. This backstory to a central character from the beloved Peter Pan tells of the hardships Captain Hook, or James, faced in his youth, giving readers an alternative perspective to a well-known and widely told fairy tale.

Check out more adventure-filled alternative fairy tales below!

Beastly Beauty
Written by Jennifer Donnelly
Published by Scholastic Press
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Beyond the Isle of the Lost
Written by Melissa De La Cruz
Published by Disney-Hyperion
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The Day I Fell Into a Fairy Tale
Written by Ben Miller
Illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
Published by Aladdin Books
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The Lost Ones
Written by Lauren DeStefano
Published by Disney Press
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Promchanted
Written by Morgan Matson
Published by Disney-Hyperion
Available now!