Wednesday, August 19, 2009

[yalsa-bk] YA revisions of classics

Compiled by Miskec, Jennifer [miskecjm@longwood.edu]

True Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman (Much Ado About Nothing)
First Impressions by Marilyn Sachs (Pride and Prejudice with an emphasis on Mary)
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger (Hamlet)
The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton (Sense and Sensibility)
Jake Reinvented (Gatsby)
Young Man and the Sea (Old Man and the Sea)
King Dork (Catcher in the Rye)
Something Rotton (Hamlet)
Something Wicked (Macbeth)
Jane Fairfax
Mansfield Revisited
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas (Henry IV)
At Face Value by Emily Franklin (Cyrano De Bergerac)
Flavor of the Week by Shaw (Cyrano De Bergerac)
Undercover by Kephart (Cyrano)
The Girls by Shaw (The Women)
Enthusiasm by Shulman (Pride and Prejudice)
Enter Three Witches by Caroline Cooney (Macbeth)
Suzanne Selfors, Saving Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Ophelia by Lisa Klein (Hamlet)
Romeo's Ex: Rosalind's Story by Lisa Fiedler
Hamlet: Ophelia's Story by Lisa Fiedler
The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love by Rushton (Sense and Sensibility)
Wuthering High by Lockwood (this one references several classics)
Avalon High by Cabot (King Arthur)
Wondrous Strange by Livingston (Midsummer Night's Dream)
A Mid-Semester Night's Dream by Meacham (Midsummer Night's Dream)
Ariel by Tiffany (The Tempest)
Corbenic by Fisher (King Arthur)

Fairy Tale/Myth
Iris, Messenger by Deming (several Greek myths)
A Curse Dark as Gold (Rumplestiltskin)
Beastly (Beauty and the Beast)
Sunlight and Shadow by Dokey (Magic Flute)
Ithaka by Geras (The Odyssey)
The Night Tourist by Marsh (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Dread Locks by Shusterman (Medusa)
The Book of Mordred by Vande Velde (King Arthur)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (King Arthur)
The Squared Circle by Bennett (Isis and Osiris)

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