Metrowest Mass. Regional Library System
High School Fiction about
Classic Characters
- The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron (King Arthur)
- The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood (Shakespeare)
- Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (The Great Gatsby)
- Avalon High by Meg Cabot (King Arthur)
- Avalon High Coronation by Meg Cabot (King Arthur) graphic novel
- Enter Three Witches by Caroline Cooney (Macbeth)
- King of Shadows by Susan Cooper (Shakespeare)
- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (An American Tragedy)
- In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Jane Eyre)
- Corbenic by Catherine Fisher (Perceval and the Holy Grail)
- Romeo’s Ex by Lisa Fiedler (Romeo & Juliet)
- Itaka and Troy by Adele Geras (Greek Mythology)
- Something Rotten by Alan Gratz (Hamlet)
- Dead Fathers’ Club by Matt Haig (Hamlet)
- Austenland by Shannon Hale (Pride and Prejudice)
- Beowulf by Gareth Hinds (Beowulf) graphic novel
- Ophelia by Lisa Klein (Hamlet)
- Jake Interrupted by Gordon Korman (The Great Gatsby)
- Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman (Romeo & Juliet)
- Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood (Virginia Woolf and Brontes)
- Cyrano by Geraldine McCaughrean (Cyrano de Bergerac)
- Aphrodite’s Blessings by Clarence McLaren (Greek Mythology)
- Inside the Walls of Troy by Clarence McLaren (Greek Mythology)
- Waiting for Odysseus by Clarence McLaren (Greek Mythology)
- Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer (Shakespeare)
- Quest of the Fair Unknown by Gerald Morris (King Arthur)
- King Dork by Frank Portman (Catcher in the Rye)
- Beowulf by Nicky Raven (Beowulf)
- The Dashwood Sisters’ Secrets of Love by Rosie Rushton (Sense and Sensibility)
- First Impressions by Marilyn Sachs (Pride and Prejudice)
- I am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer (King Arthur)
- Ariel by Grace Tiffany (The Tempest)
- The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde (King Arthur)
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (King Arthur)
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