Rapunzel
Novels:
The
Tower Room by Adèle
Geras, Harcourt, 1998- The first in the Egerton
Hall trilogy, the stories of three British girls who live at a
private boarding school during the 1960s. Megan and Simon, a new science teacher
at the school, fall in love. Dorothy, Megan's guardian and the headmistress
at the school also desires Simon and when she discovers that he is climbing
the scaffolding of Megan's tower room she exiles them both. But, as long as
they have each other, everything will end happily ever after, right??
Zel
by Donna Jo
Napoli, Puffin, 1998- Zel and Mother live in a cottage alone on
a Swiss alm, rarely seeing anyone. Mother insists that this is the way things
should be, but Zel begins to long for the company of others as she grows older.
When Zel meets a young nobleman on a rare trip into town, Mother sets in motion
a terrible plan to keep Zel with her forever.
"A
Bed of Peas" in Truly Grim Tales by Priscilla
Galloway, Laureleaf, 1998- This is the story
of Rapunzel's parents, a princess and the son of a Bedouin chieftain, and
their quest to reclaim their daughter from an evil sorceress.
"The
Golden Rope" in Red as Blood, or, Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
by Tanith
Lee, DAW Books, 1983- Jaspre, kept in total
isolation by the woman who has raised her, learns her true purpose in life
on her 13th birthday...to serve the Lord of Eternal Night.
"The
Tale of the Hair" in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
by Emma
Donoghue, HarperTrophy, 1999- Will Rapunzel realize that her true
love was with her all along?
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