Beastly

For fairy tale fans who want something a little more grown up, Alex Flinn brings us Beastly, an updated version of Beauty and the Beast.

Here, the Beast is Kyle Kingsbury the prince of the 9th grade class at his private school in New York. Kyle's father, a newscaster, taught him that good looks are the key to being special and popular, and while Kyle is beautiful on the outside (and rich, and popular) he's ugly on the inside, looking for ways to humiliate those less popular than he is.

But he messes with the wrong classmate.

Kyle wakes up to find that he has been turned into a Beast. A beast so hideous that his father sends him away to his own house in Brooklyn where he can't be seen by anyone. Kyle becomes Adrian, the dark one, and has two years to find someone who will love him for who he is or he will stay a beast forever.

Sounds familiar? Sure, but there is a reason why this story stays popular.