Beastly by: Alex Flinn

You may have seen the movie but Alex Flinn's modern day 'Beauty and the Beast' fairy tale is so much better.

Rating: * * * * *

Kyle Kingsbury is your average day stuck up guy.  Always bragging about something and that gets him into a heap of trouble.  Kyle thinks he owns the school and acts like nothing less than a jerk.  When he decides to play a little trick on Kendra, the dark and "speaks her mind" witch, she puts a curse on him turning him into a hideous, furry monster.  She gives him 2 years to find someone who will love him for him.
Kyle later meets Lindy, the brainiac he never truly knew at school.  He soon finds her dad sneaking into his home that his father, the stuck up news caster, puts him in.  Before Lindy's father can steal anything Kyle runs out to check on his (not Lindy's) roses after the man smashes in.  He requests Lindy to come to live with him that way he can get closer to her.  
Kyle (who at this point goes by Adrian King) tries everything to get Lindy to love him.  Will he succeed or will he be a monster forever?


(The book is much more related to Disney's The Beauty and the Beast than the movie made for the book.)