 | The Princess Tales, Volume I (Princess Tales) by Gail Carson Levine
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 These stories are great for children who are making the transition from picture books to novels. Very fun reading.
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 | Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.10 As short as it is, this book still makes me cry at the end.
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 | Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $2.22 Ironically, this is a very feminist story, based on an Iraqi folktale dating back to the eleventh century
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 | Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.99 A very cute, unique, modern twist on fairy tales
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 | Alanna : The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Buy used from: $5.08 A girl disguises herself as her twin brother and sets out to learn to be a knight someday. This book is good for pretty young girls, but later sequels follow Alanna as she becomes an adult, and should perhaps be read by mature teens. Nothing raunchy or descriptive, but they do mention her having sex.
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 | The Squire's Tale (The Squire's Tales) by Gerald Morris
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $1.61 Oh, these books are so great! Morris has a wonderful sense of humor, and all his books are based on ballads of King Arthur's knights. In order, they are:
The Squire's Tale
The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
Parsifal's Page
The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
The Princess, The Crone and the Dung-Cart Knight
The Lioness and Her Knight
The Quest of the Fair Unknown
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 | Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 My sixth-grade teacher gave me this to read. I don't know any short way to describe it, but it is very good.
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 | Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Buy used from: $3.84 Every girl and woman should read Robin McKinley. Her writing is very rich, and sucks you into her world. I don't usually go in for this kind of fantasy, but McKinley makes it great. These books are good for teens. Other must-read McKinley include:
The Blue Sword
Beauty
The Outlaws of Sherwood
Deerskin (only for mature teens!)
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 | The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection) by George Macdonald
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.81 George Macdonald also wrote The Light Princess, and The Princess and Curdie. Check them out!
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 | Secret Garden, Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy: Three Complete Novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy used from: $5.18 These are classics!
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 | The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander
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 | The Ordinary Princess
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.90 This is a short book, but so cute, funny and natural, you'll keep it on your shelf
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