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5-Minute Princess Stories
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Magical tales about princesses from different Walt Disney movies. Ages 5-8
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Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella
Author: Tomie DePaola
After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta. Ages 6-8
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Barefoot Book of Princesses
Author: Caitlin Matthews
Princess stories from around the world. Ages 9-12
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Castle of shadows
Author: Ellen Renner
A feisty eleven-year-old princess embarks on a dangerous mission to find her missing mother, uncovering dark secrets inside and outside the castle walls. Ages 9-12
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Cinderella
Author: Barbara McClintock
Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother. Ages 6-8
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Disney Princess: A Read-aloud Storybook
Author: Jennifer Weinberg
Adapted by Jennifer Liberts Weinberg Dance with Cinderella at the ball, laugh with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and sing with Sleeping Beauty. Each of the three stories retells the classic tale of a Disney princess who triumphs over evil and lives happily ever after. Ages 2-5
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Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Ella of Frell is given the blessing of obedience at birth, which curses her to obey any order she is given. She promises her mother she will never tell anyone about her curse, but this leads to many problems. Ages 9-12
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Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Book 1: Dealing with Dragons)
Author: Patricia Wrede
Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. Ages 9-12
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Frog Princess (series)
Author: E. D. Baker
After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again. Ages 9-12
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Frogged
Author: Vivian Van Velde
When almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is turned into a frog, she puts into practice lessons from the book, The Art of Being a Princess, as she tries to become her less-than-perfect self again. Ages: 8-12 yrs
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Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
Author: Paul Fleischman
The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russia, Appalachia, and more. Ages 6-8
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Happily Ever After
Author: Anna Quindlen
When a girl who loves to read fairy tales is transported back to medieval times, she finds that the life of a princess in a castle is less fun than she imagined. Ages 6-8
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Hinky-Pink: An Old Tale Retold
Author: Megan McDonald
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite. Ages 6-8
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Lacemaker and the Princess
Author: Kimberly Bradley
In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, lives with her lacemaker grandmother near the palace of Versailles. She meets and becomes friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, but these are difficult times in France, can it last? Ages 9-12
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Lady-Lollipop
Author: Dick King-Smith
A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are royally rewarded after they reform a spoiled princess. Ages 6-8
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Little Moon Princess
Author: Y. J. Lee
With the help of a friendly sparrow, little moon princess, who is afraid of the dark, uses the jewels on the surface of her moon to light up the sky Ages: 5 and under
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Little Princess
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
After her father dies and the money is gone, Sara Crewe is forced to live in the attic of a school and work as a maid. Sara's imagination and spirit help her to survive and do well despite these hardships. Ages 9-12
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Mary Engelbreit's Fairy Tales: Twelve Timeless Treasures
Author: Mary Engelbreit
With 12 beloved stories meant for reading aloud and more than 100 glorious illustrations, Mary Engelbreit’s Fairy Tales is destined to become a family favorite. Ages 5-8
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Author: John Steptoe
This African tale evokes the Cinderella story in its portrayal of two sisters, spiteful Manyara and considerate Nyasha, and the young king who is searching for a bride. Ages 6-8
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Not all princesses dress in pink
Author: Jane Yolen
Rhyming text affirms that girls can pursue their many interests, from playing sports to planting flowers in the dirt, without giving up their tiaras. Ages 5-8
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Ordinary Princess
Author: M. M. Kaye
At her christening a princess is given the gift of "ordinariness" by a fairy. The consequences of that eventually take her to another palace where she becomes a kitchen maid and meets the prince for her. Ages 9-12
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Paper Bag Princess
Author: Robert Munsch
Princess Elizabeth is to marry Prince Ronald, but a dragon attacks and kidnaps him. Princess Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald, but does he still want to marry her? Ages 6-8
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Paper Princess (series)
Author: Elisa Kleven
A little girl makes a picture of a princess that comes to life and is carried off by the wind. Ages 6-8
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Princess Academy
Author: Shannon Hale
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. Ages 9-12
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Princess and the Pea
Author: Rachel Isadora
A simplified version of the tale in which a girl proves that she is a real princess by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds. Ages 6-8
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Princess and the White Bear King
Author: Tanya Batt
A girl travels east of the sun and west of the moon to free her beloved prince from a magic spell. Ages 6-8
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Princess Bess gets dressed
Author: Margaret Cuyler
A fashionably dressed princess reveals her favorite clothes at the end of a busy day. Ages 2-5
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Princess Gown
Author: Linda L. Strauss
Hanna's family is worried, if the dress they are making is not chosen for the princess, they will become poor. But Hanna's artistic ability means her father may become Embroiderer to the Princess. Ages 6-8
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Princess Handbook
Author: Susanna Davidson
In case your parents are not a King and Queen, you can still learn how to be a princess by reading this book. There are lots of tips on how to deal with servants, how to wave, and when to wear a tiara. Ages 9-12
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Princess K.I.M. and the Lie That Grew
Author: Maryann Cocca-Leffler
After new girl Kim tells her classmates she is from a royal family, her lie grows and grows. Ages 5 and Under
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Princess Knight
Author: Cornelia Funke
Violetta, a little princess, is determined to become as big and strong as her brothers. She teaches herself to become the bravest and cleverest knight in the land. Will she be ready to face the king's best knights? Ages 5 and Under
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Princess Me
Author: Karma Wilson
little girl pretends to be a princess and imagines her room a castle. Ages 5 and Under
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Princess Nevermore
Author: Dian Regan
When a fifteen-year-old Mandrian princess makes a wish in a wizard's circle, she winds up on Earth alone and without the ability and desire to return to home. Ages 9-12
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Princess Party
Author: Joy Allen
Shows the many different ways a princess can be an incredible girl. Ages 2-5
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Princess Peepers picks a pet
Author: Pam Calvert
When Princess Peepers loses her glasses, she mistakes a dragon for a unicorn and enters it in the pet show at the Royal Academy for Perfect Princesses. Ages: 5 and under
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Princess Smartypants
Author: Babette Cole
Not wishing to marry any of her royal suitors, Princess Smartypants devises difficult tasks at which they all fail, until Prince Swashbuckle appears. Ages 5 and Under
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Princess Tales (series)
Author: Gail Carson Levine
In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, a lonely young farm lad uses his unusual inventive ability to pass a nearly impossible test and win the hand of the neighboring princess. Ages 9-12
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Princesses Are Not Quitters!
Author: Kate Lum
Three bored princesses decide to become servants for a day and find out what hard work is. Ages 5 and Under
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Rapunzel: the one with all the hair
Author: Wendy Mass
Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are both trapped, one in a tower by an evil witch, the other by his royal duties, but when their paths cross, aided by friends and a little luck, conditions change for them both. Ages 8-12
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Runaway Princess
Author: Kate Coombs
Fifteen-year-old Princess Meg uses magic and her wits to rescue a baby dragon and escape the unwanted attentions of princes hoping to gain her hand in marriage through a contest arranged by her father, the king. Ages 9-12
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Sleeping Beauty
Author: Mahlon Craft
A beautiful and beloved princess, cursed by the one fairy who was not invited to her christening, pricks her finger on her sixteenth birthday and falls asleep for one hundred years. Ages 6-8
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Snoring Beauty
Author: Bruce Hale
An adaptation of the traditional tale, featuring a sleeping, snoring princess who is rescued by a prince after being cursed by a bad fairy. Ages 5-8
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Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie
Author: Sophia Grace Brownlee and Rosie McClelland as told to Orli Zuravicky
Cousins Sophia Grace and Rosie plan a princess tea party, with invitations and costumes. Ages 2-5 yrs
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The Princess of Trelian
Author: Michelle Knudsen
Princess Meglynne of Trelian will soon be named the princess-heir, next in line to be queen, but her link to the dragon Jakl makes the kingdom's people more than a little uneasy, while a mysterious magical attack and some ominous divinations reveal that a much more powerful enemy may soon reappear and endanger them all. Ages 9-12
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Twelve Dancing Princesses
Author: Marianna Mayer
When the king's twelve daughters, under an evil spell, wear holes in their dancing slippers every night and grow pale and mysterious, Peter the gardener's boy discovers their secret and breaks the spell. Ages 6-8
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Two Princesses of Bamarre
Author: Gail Carson Levine
With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the Grey death, timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure. Ages 9-12
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Very fairy princess takes the stage
Author: Julie Andrews
Even though Gerry is cast as the court jester instead of the princess in her ballet class performance, she regains her sparkle and once again feels like a fairy princess. Ages: 5 and under
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Walt Disney’s Cinderella
Author: Cynthia Rylant
With the help of her fairy godmother, a kitchen maid mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters attends the palace ball where she meets the prince of her dreams. Ages 6-8
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