Magical retellings of “Beauty and the Beast” will capture the hearts of teenage girls on Valentine’s Day gift lists.

Set in different places, these books all manage to create a spell that lingers after the last page is finished. Romance has never been better.

Nancy Holder’s “Spirited” (Simon Pulse, $5.99) takes place in 1756, during the war between the French and British, which has a powerful influence on a great Mohican nation in a land that is not yet America.

When captured, Isabella first looks on her Indian benefactor as a “savage,” no better than a beast. But she soon learns differently.

Renamed Mahwah (beautiful), Isabella finds she shares in the shaman mysticism of her Indian captor, Wusamequin. Together they find that they can work miracles, and in the end, Isabella no longer sees her captor as savage, taking him as her beloved.

They escape into the Land Beyond; she renounces her “white-skinned” father in order to join with the man she first saw as a beast. It is a decision all romanticists will understand.

“Beauty” (HarperCollins, $6.99), by Robin McKinley, takes its cue from the title. Everything about the main character’s life in an unnamed time and place is touched by radiant flowers, glowing jewelry and gossamer clothing. Surrounded by every imaginable lovely thing, she is torn between appreciating her Beast’s generosity and the longing to see her family.

In true fairy tale fashion, she eventually manages to receive all of her heart’s desires, enjoy royal treatment when she willingly returns to the Beast and bring her family into the glorious world she inhabits.

Joyous and exultant, the narrative is breathtaking, filled with poetic passages that will move readers. During the final paragraphs, bells ring out not only for Beauty, but also for those who have followed her story.

The settings of Persia and France lend an exoticism to Donna Jo Napoli’s “Beast” (Simon Pulse, $5.99). A prince’s unthinking cruelty to an animal causes him to be transformed into an animal: a ferocious lion. Forced to fend for himself, he despairs until chance offers him hope he can win a woman’s heart.

He isn’t always a loving beast. But despite his failings, Belle sees through his wildness to his essential humanity and willingly abandons her past life to share books and meals with an animal.

Laced with Persian and Arabic words and equipped with a brief glossary, this is a rare treat for lovers of foreign lore. Earthy and exotic, it will be appreciated by readers who are mature beyond their years.