Light and Happy Teen Fantasy, Historical Setting

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Clean reads
• Teen books
• Fantasy
• Emphasis on characters and relationships
• Clever writing
• Non-contemporary time period
• Light reads
• Shannon Hale read-alikes
  

Princess of the Midnight Ball
By Jessica Day George
YA F GEORGE
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.

Secondhand Charm
By Julie Berry
YA F BERRY
On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, fifteen-year-old Evie, wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance.

Rose Daughter
By Robin McKinley
YA F MCKINLEY Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast.

Fairest
By Gail Carson Levine
YA F LEVINE
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.

A Curse as Dark as Gold
By Elizabeth Bunce
YA F BUNCE
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. (This book isn't quite as light and happy as some of the others.)