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Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889

Ellen Emerson White

After being forcibly annexed by the U.S., the Hawaiian people turn to the young Princess Kaiulani in the hopes that their toppled monarchy can be restored.
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Princess Lulu Goes to Camp

Kathryn Cristaldi

Lulu is a princess. She has everything--well, almost everything. Princess Lulu doesn't have any friends. Will she finally find a friend at Camp Ruff 'n' Tuff? Find out in this Level 3 reader!
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Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Cynthia Rylant - Disney Press
Format: Hardcover

Once there was an evil queen who cared about only one thing—that she was fairest of all. When she learns that Snow White's beauty is greater, she sets out to destroy the girl. It is then that Snow White finds herself lost. Then, she finds her way to seven little men who change...
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Angelina and the Princess

Helen Craig
Format: Hardcover

Angelina is too sick to dance well during the tryouts for the lead in the "Princess of Mouseland" ballet, but when the leading ballerina sprains her foot, Angelina is ready to prove she is still the best dancer of all.
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Princess Collection: Love and Friendship Stories

Sarah E Heller - Disney Press
Format: Print book

Excerpts and illustrations from nineteen feature-length Walt Disney cartoons reveal truths about friendship and love.
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The Princess and the Pizza

Mary Jane Auch - Holiday House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

An out-of-work princess applies to become the bride of Prince Drupert, but first she must pass several tests, including a cooking contest.
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The Malachite Palace

Alma Flor Ada

A master storyteller weaves a charming original fairy tale that celebrates the innocence of youth. A princess who lives in a malachite palace is prohibited from playing with the children beyond the gates. Full color.
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Princess Party

Joy Allen - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Celebrate the playful princess inside every little girl! Princesses are incredible girls?they love to dress up, use their imaginations and play with gusto! These little princesses have fun all day as they put on tiaras and cowboy boots, dance together at the ball, defend the backyard castle,...
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Theres a Princess in the Palace: Five Classic Tales Retold

Zoe Alley - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

In this hilarious collection of princess stories with a distinctive spin, theres Cinderella, who was, though you may not know it, Sleeping Beautys mom; Sleeping Beauty, who didnt fall asleep because of the prick of a needle -- it was sheer boredom; Snow White and her diminutive friends...
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The Very Fairy Princess

Julie Andrews - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

While her friends and family may not believe in fairies, Geraldine knows, deep down, that she is a VERY fairy princess. From morning to night, Gerry does everything that fairy princesses do: she dresses in her royal attire, practices her flying skills, and she is always on the lookout for problems...
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Princess K.I.M. and the Lie That Grew

Maryann Cocca-Leffler - Albert Whitman & Company; First Printing edition
Format: Book

Kim wants the kids at her new school to like her, so she tells a teeny, tiny, bitty lie. She says her name is really K.I.M.--for Katherine Isabella Marguerite--and that she comes from a royal family! Pretty soon all the students know there is a princess in the school. Kim wears her golden...
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Princess Bess Gets Dressed

Margery Cuyler - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Princess Bess has loads of clothes made with satin, snaps, and bows. And she changes them all day, for her lessons and ballet. But if a certain truth be told, her favorite clothes are much less bold. She carefully keeps them out of sight until its time for bed at night. Then in her room...
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Lottie's Princess Dress

Doris Dorrie - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

One morning Lottie awakes from a dream of castles and glittery gold things. Even though it seems like any other school day, Lottie is sure her favorite blue skirt and red sweater won't do. But her princess dress-all glittery gold-is the perfect outfit for a day that Lottie just knows...
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Princess Grace

Mary Hoffman - ‎Dial Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

This year two girls will be selected as princesses in the town parade, and Grace cant wait to be one of them. Its the perfect opportunity to dress up - but how, exactly, should a princess costume look? Grace asks her teacher for help, and soon the whole class is learning that theres...
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Goldilicious

Victoria Kann - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Being Pinkalicious is pinkatastic, especially when she's accompanied by her pet unicorn, Goldilicious. Goldie is a roller-skating, kite-flying, high-jumping unicorn who will protect Pinkalicious from the evil wizardry of her little brother, Peter. Together, Pinkalicious and Goldilicious...
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Princess Says Goodnight

Naomi Howland - Harper
Format: Print book

When a little girl pretends she's a real princess, her imagination soars and her bedtime routine is transformed into a majestic affair. While practicing curtsies on her way to bed, she gets the royal treatment: chocolate cream clairs, glass slippers, ladies-in-waiting, a tiara - even a bubble...
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The Princess and the Frog: The Essential Guide

DK Publishing - DK CHILDREN
Format: Hardcover

Loaded with hundreds of illustrations, stills, and artworks from the movie, The Princess and the Frog: The Essential Guide, celebrates Disney's first princess film in eleven years! © 2009 Disney
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Goldilicious

Victoria Kann - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Being Pinkalicious is pinkatastic, especially when she's accompanied by her pet unicorn, Goldilicious. Goldie is a roller-skating, kite-flying, high-jumping unicorn who will protect Pinkalicious from the evil wizardry of her little brother, Peter. Together, Pinkalicious and Goldilicious...
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Princess Baby

Karen Katz - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

Poor baby, no one calls her by her real name! “I am not a buttercup, or a giggly goose. I am not a cupcake. Please don’t call me Little Lamb, and never ever Gum Drop,” she insists. With a curtsy and a twirl, again and again our protagonist makes it abundantly clear...
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Princess Baby, Night-Night

Karen Katz - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Print book

Poor Princess Baby. It’s bedtime, but she isn’t sleepy in this adorable follow-up to the first Princess Baby book. After all, there is so much a princess baby needs to do. PJs need to be put on, toys need to be put away, the perfect book needs to be chosen, and her beloved...
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P Is for Princess: A Royal Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Alphabets)

Steven L. Layne - Sleeping Bear Press
Format: Hardcover

Snow White had her Prince Charming and Victoria had her Albert. Who really knows how "grand" the Duke of York was? P is for Princess: A Royal Alphabet gives an enchanting A to Z tour of the world of kings, queens, and the stories behind the thrones. Monarchs real (Princesses Diana...
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Princesses Are Not Perfect

Kate Lum - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Print book

Princesses Allie, Mellie, and Libby are very busy at their rose covered palace by the sea. Princess Allie bakes the best cakes you've ever had. Princess Libby is an expert at building things. And Princess Mellie can grow almost anything in her garden.But the princesses are tired of being...
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Song For A Princess

Rachael Mortimer - Chicken House
Format: Book

A humble little wren makes the lonely princess happy again when he sings a song full of all the wonderful words he's been collecting in his nest.When the birds in the palace garden realize the princess is sad, they decide to offer their best to make her smile again. The peacock tries...
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The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch)

Michael Martchenko - Annick Press
Format: Library Binding

The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald --- who is less than pleased at her un-princess-like appearance. Full color throughout.
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The Apple-Pip Princess

Jane Ray - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

With sumptuous artwork, Jane Ray tells an original fairy tale of a humble princess whose love for natures beauty restores a kingdom.. Once there was a kingdom full of laughter, happiness, trees, and birdsong. But when the queen dies, the land becomes quiet and barren, and everyone is filled...
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The Princess and the Giant

Caryl Hart - Nosy Crow
Format: Print book

Princess Sophie is exhausted, and it's all because that grumpy old giant up on the beanstalk can't sleep. His stomps and stamps keep everyone awake. But as the resourceful Princess Sophie reads her favorite book of fairy tales, she wonders if she might just have the answer. She bravely...
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Princess for a Day

Maryann Cocca-Leffler - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book

Jessie becomes a princess complete with a ball gown, a crown, royal jewels, and loyal subjects to come to the royal ball.
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The Princess and the Pea

Rachel Isadora - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

When a prince sets out to find a princess to marry he soon discovers this is not a simple task There is no shortage of so-called princesses but how can he tell whether or not they are what they claim to be Then one night a great storm rages theres a knock on the palace gate and the princes...
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The Rope Trick

Lloyd Alexander

It's magic! The great American storyteller Lloyd Alexander conjures an engrossing tale of a bewitching magician. Lidi is not only beautiful-she has the talent to perform the greatest magic feat imaginable-the rope trick. But she must find the one master who can teach her how.
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Alison Of Arabia

Nina Alexander
Format: Paperback

Alison is magically transformed into a princess in an Arabian palace and can have anything in the world she wants, with the help of three wishes from her genie, but after using her wishes, she begins to wonder if she has used her wishes wisely."
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The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen
Format: Print book

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The Runaway Princess

Kate Coombs - Farrar Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book

"A dragon darkens our dells. A witch haunts our woods. Bandits roam our moors" . . . King Stromgard swept on. "In the tradition of so many monarchs, I offer my daughter's hand in marriage and half my kingdom to the prince who can rid us of these evils, restoring peace...
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick Press
Format: Paperback

"Forgiveness, light, love, and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul-stirring as it is delicious." - BOOKLIST (starred review) Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea....
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Disney Princess

Jennifer Liberts Weinberg - Random House
Format: Print book

Dance with Cinderella at the ball, laugh with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and sing with Sleeping Beauty in one 64-page Read-Aloud Storybook. Each of the three stories retells the classic tale of a Disney Princess who triumphs over evil and lives happily ever after.
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Disney's Storybook Collection

Nancy Parent - Disney Press
Format: Print book

This edition contains almost the most famous disney histories...
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Once upon a Marigold

Jean Ferris - Harcourt
Format: Print book

A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
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The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool

Margaret Gray - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Can a seafaring fairy godmother, a wise fool, and an enchanted hairstyle keep Princess Rose out of trouble?"A very long time ago, when all the countries you’ve ever heard of were in different places on the map, a princess was born who was not beautiful. She wasn’t even...
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The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern)

Shannon Hale
Format: Print book

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life under her aunt's guidance learning to communicate with animals. As she grows up Ani develops the skills of animal speech, but is never comfortable speaking with people, so when her silver-tongued...
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Princess Academy

Shannon Hale - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride...
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Lady Lollipop

Dick King-Smith - Candlewick; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Another funny, winning, and long-awaited pig tale from Dick King-Smith!Lollipop is no ordinary pig. According to her young trainer, Johnny Skinner — who also happens to specialize in good human behavior — she’s the smartest pig in the entire kingdom. When people stare...
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The Royal Diaries: Victoria, May Blossom of Britannia, England 1829

Anna Kirwan - Scholastic
Format: Book

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Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 (The Royal Diaries)

Kathryn Lasky - Scholastic
Format: Print book

Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky introduces readers to young Elizabeth I and the intrigue of her father's court from 1544-1546.
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The Royal Diaries: Jahanara, Princess Of Princesses: India, 1627

Kathryn Lasky - Scholastic
Format: Print book

Experience the sumptuous wealth and the unforgettable drama within the Moghul Dynasty of seventeenth-century India through Newbery Honor- author Kathryn Lasky's diary of Princess Jahanara.In the 1600s, the Moghul emperors of India were among the greatest and most superb rulers of the East....
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The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

Kathryn Lasky - Scholastic
Format: Print book

Maria Antonia of Vienna has her whole life mapped out ahead of her. She is to marry Dauphin Louis Auguste, eldest grandson of King Louis XV. As his wife, she will be called Marie Antoinette, and will be the highest princess of France. Upon the death of the King, she will become Queen Marie...
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Cinderellis and the Glass Hill

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

Ralph said, "Rain tomorrow." Burt said, "Barley needs it. You're covered with cinders, Ellis." Ralph thought that was funny. "That's funny." He laughed. "That's what we should call him-- Cinderellis." Burt guffawed.In this unusual spin on an old favorite,...
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Ella Enchanted (Newbery Honor Book)

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old. At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift - the "gift" of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop...
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For Biddle's Sake

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

There she was, chartreuse and warty and smiling at him. Such a nice smile. Something in his heart fluttered. The young maiden, Parsley, will eat nothing but parsley, which in Snettering-on-Snoakes grows only in the fairy Bombina's garden. All is well -- until Bombina is released from...
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Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep (Princess Tales)

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

A spiteful fairy. A beautiful princess. An outstretched finger. A spindle. A hundred-year snooze. A charming prince. A kiss. All the familiar ingredients.But wait! Where did that extra prince come from? And those fairy gifts that were never there before? And what does a flock of balding...
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The Princess Test (Princess Tales)

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. In The Fairy's...
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A kingdom beset by monsters . . .A disease that weakens and destroys . . .An epic poem and a hero of long ago . . .A story of danger and desperation.The Two Princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess...
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Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

Patricia C. McKissack

Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
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The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight

Gerald Morris - HMH Books for Young Readers; 2nd Edition edition
Format: Print book

Ever since that tragic night when her mother and guardian were murdered, thirteen-year-old Sarah has been living on her own and searching for the knight who was responsible. Her quest for revenge leads to an even greater adventure when she witnesses Queen Guinevere being kidnapped. Soon...
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Girl in a Cage

Jane Yolen - Philomel Books
Format: Book

From the authors of Queen's Own Fool comes another historical young adult novel from a thrilling period in Scottish history-featuring an indomitable young heroine: the daughter of Robert the Bruce. Marjorie Bruce is overjoyed when she learns that her father has proclaimed himself...
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To Be a Princess: The Fascinating Lives of Real Princesses

Hugh Brewster

Princesses live in splendid palaces with servants to grant their every wish....Or do they? Here the stories of twelve real princesses reveal what life behind the palace walls is really like."This night I think to die, declares Elizabeth Tudor as sh
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Sleeping Beauty

Mahlon F. Craft - SeaStar Books / Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Sleeping Beautys enchanted slumber has captivated readers hearts for centuries. Now brought luminously to life by K. Y. Crafts lavish paintings, this new edition of a timeless favorite is sure to enchant readers both young and old. Fairy tale lovers have been eagerly awaiting Crafts next...
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The Starlight Princess and Other Princess Stories

Annie Dalton

Rich embroideries decorate this collection of well-loved princess stories. This beautiful book takes its inspiration from rich tales reflecting different historical periods and cultures. The Starlight Princess presents some of the best loved princess stories, brought to life with
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The Princess Mouse : A Tale of Finland

Aaron Shepard

In Mikko's family, when a son is ready to marry, he must chop down a tree and then search for his bride by following the direction in which the tree points. When Mikko's brother chops down his tree, it points right to where his sweetheart lives. But when it's Mikko's turn, the tre
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Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531

Laurence Yep - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

The Royal Diaries proudly presents two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep, whose stunning diary of sixteen-year-old Lady of Chiao Kuo takes readers on a remarkable adventure to Southern China in the sixth century A.D., where Chiao Kuo, a born leader called Red Bird, is courageous and keenly...
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