The Royal Treatment

An inventive seamstress befriends a prince with an eye for unconventional fashion.

William Goldman's beloved fairy tale features a princess, a pirate, and a villainous prince. Do you think these words from the novel will stump you? Inconceivable!

Margaret is an orphan who was raised by nuns on an isolated island. When Eleanor, the exiled Queen of Albion, is imprisoned on the island, Margaret learns secrets about her past and becomes involved in a daring plot to save the queen.

In this retelling of the Arthurian legend, a young boy is tutored by the wizard Merlin in preparation for his future as a great king of England.

In Mare's world, people are divided by the color of their blood. When red-blooded Mare displays magical abilities belonging to those outside her caste, she is welcomed into the circles of the silver-blooded elites — but where do her loyalties truly lie?

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is working to ensure his mother's reelection; but when he falls for his old rival, the Prince of Wales, they unintentionally spark an international incident.

In the first novel in Adeyemi's fantasy series, Zélie attempts to overthrow a repressive king and bring magic back to her land.

Shakespeare's famous tragedy tells the story of a Danish prince who must decide whether or not to avenge his father's death.

In this tragedy, the doomed romance between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and Roman general Marc Antony is set against the backdrop of Octavius Caesar's founding of the Roman Empire.

In this comic novel, a nineteenth-century engineer is magically transported back to medieval England.

In this medieval poem, originally composed in Middle English in the 14th century, a mysterious green knight issues a challenge to the knights of King Arthur's court. Learn these words from the translation by J.R.R. Tolkien.

A young prince and a poor commoner look almost exactly alike, so they decide to switch places to discover how the other lives. Read the full text here.

Every time Prince Horace misbehaves, a poor boy named Jemmy suffers the consequences. When the prince and the whipping boy run away together, they are kidnapped by highwaymen — and they must plan a daring escape that will change both of their lives.

Seventeen-year-old Jude, who was kidnapped by a faerie soldier when she was a child, fights for a position of power in the faerie kingdom. This is the first book in the Folk of the Air trilogy.

In the thirteenth century, travelers at an inn tell tales about the adventures of three children attempting to escape religious persecution.

Glinda sets out to rescue Dorothy Gale and Princess Ozma from the Isle of the Skeezers. Read the full text here.

In this reimagining of the Cinderella story, Ella tries to escape a curse that prevents her from disobeying orders.

Alice falls asleep in a meadow and wakes in a surreal world inhabited by characters such as the White Rabbit, the Red Queen, and the Cheshire Cat. Learn these words from Lewis Carroll's delightful and witty novel.

In this prequel to Ash, two 17-year-old girls, Kaede and Taisin, must fight unearthly creatures and their own feelings to save their kingdom. Learn these words that Malinda Lo uses to build an enchanting fantasy world.

For falling in love with a human princess, a mouse named Despereaux Tilling is sentenced to death in a rat-filled dungeon.

Katsa was "graced" with a special power to kill people, but instead of using her power to serve the ill will of her uncle, King Randa, she decides to learn how to use her powers for good.

After a member of the royal court is murdered, half-dragon musical prodigy Seraphina gets drawn into the investigation and uncovers a plot to destroy peace in the kingdom of Goredd.

Possessed by the two-thousand-year-old spirit of the First Emperor Ying Zheng, twelve-year-old Zack must travel from Maine to China to save both his mom and the mortal realm.

Based on the life and poems of Nezahualcoyotl, this historical fiction is told from the perspective of the 15th-century king of Tetzcoco, as he goes from being a teenage crown prince, to hunted refugee, to triumphant warrior and family man.

A year after their last visit, the Pevensie children return to find that centuries have passed in Narnia. While there, they help a young prince fight for his rightful place on the throne.

In this fantasy novel, Tarisai competes for a position on the Prince's Council — but she has also been instructed to assassinate the Prince.

In the first volume of the Ascendance series, a nobleman tries to seize power by training a boy to impersonate a long-lost prince.

In his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry learns more about Voldemort's past and discovers a mysterious Potions textbook.

In the second volume of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, six rival houses continue to battle to rule the kingdom of Westeros.

When a plague ravages the city of Thebes, Oedipus hears a prophecy that begins to unravel everything he thought was true.

This first book of the series introduces fourteen-year-old Miri Larendaughter, who must train in the royal ways of Danland, so that the prince can choose one of the girls in her mountain village to be his bride.