Royalty in Teen Fiction

Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell

• Pub Date: 2013
• Middle School interest
• See also in Children's: Disabilities 
• See also in Teen: Decisions 
• Princess Tilda has to decide if she will return to her kingdom to rule or let her cousin take over.

Kiss of Deception by Mary Pearson

• Pub Date: 2014
• High school interest
• See also: Marriage, Secrets 
• Lia is a princess who runs away to escape an arranged marriage. 

The Ring and the Crown by Melissa De la Cruz

• Pub Date: 2014
• High school interest
• See also: Political Intrigue, Disguises
• Set in an alt-past in which there is magic in the early 20th century & Princess Marie- Victoria is trying to accept an arranged marriage. 

The Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

• Pub Date: 2017
• High school interest
• See also: Secrets, Disguised
• In an alt-future, Margaret, Helena, and Elizabeth debut and discuss marriage prospects.

Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen

• Pub Date: 2002
• Middle and high school interest
• See also: Based on a Real Person, Historical
• Eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward Longshanks and held in a cage on public display. 

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

• Pub Date: 2017
• Middle/High school interest
• Graphic Novel
• See also: Secrets 
• Prince Sebastian secretly wears dresses and employs a seamstress to help him transform into Lady Crystallia. 

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

• Pub Date: 2018
• High school interest
• See also: Secrets, Forbidden Romance, Past & Present
• Lady Rielle is in love with the crown prince, and we know from the prologue, eventually becomes queen. 

The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal

• Pub Date: 2011
• Middle and high school interest
• Sinda learns, at age 16, that she is not the princess she was raised to be.