"Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast" by Robin McKinley

This book is definitely for teenaged girls. She definitely keeps it clean; but she doesn't dumb it down either. I prefer this story over the movie "Beauty and the Beast" done by Disney. My favorite part of the book is the first time she meets the Beast. She notices that he is huge and hairy, but he has eyes like a humans. Though she doesn't realize then that he really is human underneath it all. I will say that it is a little cheesy, but a very good book and written well.