Books with title Princess Grace

This year two girls will be selected as princesses in the town parade, and Grace can’t wait to be one of them. It’s 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 there’s more to princesses than pink dresses and frills. From Kenya to China and from warriors to spies, princesses are a multicultural and multitalented bunch, and there are just as many kinds of happily ever afters—both for the royals and for Grace’s community and its princess parade. Mary Hoffman’s picture books featuring this intrepid heroine have earned major critical acclaim; amongst other awards, Amazing Grace was a i>Reading Rainbow selection and a Booklist Editors’ Choice. Grace’s latest adventure is sure to delight her established fans—and win the hearts of many more!

Jasmine Porter moved away two years ago, but now she’s back. And her first day at Elizabeth Cady Stanton Middle School couldn’t be off to a worse start. When Jasmine shows up wearing one of the wild outfits she designed and made, her one-time enemy, Ashley Dutton, singles her out again. Soon, Jasmine finds herself trying to dress just like everyone else—but no matter what she does, Ashley finds a way to make fun of her. Will Jasmine ever find a way to stand up for herself?Things get even stickier when the school talent competition is announced and Jasmine’s friends sign her up to put together a fashion show!Jasmine decides she’s best off avoiding Ashley, quitting the competition, and just blending in with the crowd. Things look bad, until a button in the shape of a fairy princess comes to life! Will a two-inch-tall, princess-impersonating auto mechanic named Ruby be able to help Jasmine show the school who she really is?

A castle is destroyed in 597 AD and forty survivors flee to an isolated village in the forest of southwest Wessex. They hide under threat of death for seven years until a girl, affectionately nicknamed Princess, rescues a boy left to die on the side of a road and their lives change forever.Princess has spent seven of her thirteen years hiding as a refugee with a small group of her family and friends. Rescuing the boy, Cynegils, and hearing his stories about the world outside has ignited her desire to experience it. But her village has a secret that will destroy them all if it is ever discovered.The two fall in love as Cynegils is nursed back to health through the spring. By the time he is strong enough for the dangerous journey home, Princess has learned an even darker secret about her family and faces an ultimate decision: Should she leave to see the world and marry the first boy she’s ever loved? Princess will never see her family or home again if she leaves and will always carry the burden of a secret she can never tell anyone – even Cynegils. But she loses her only chance for love if she stays.Life is tough enough when you’re thirteen. Making a decision like this while facing starvation, marauding wolf packs, and hiding from an active death threat makes coming of age seem almost impossible.#princessofwessex

Titles in the Mini People series are miniature, scaled-down versions of books from B.E.S. popular children's series of Little People Shape Books. Starting with the delightful front cover picture, B.E.S. Mini People titles feature all of the larger books' full-color illustrations as they show boys and girls in different, exciting adult roles, or in imaginative roles inspired by favorite children's stories. Each of these board books is die-cut in the shape of the happy child who appears on the front cover.

Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country. Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king. For the sake of her daughters, she has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, regardless of their rank. She must hide her identity for fear that the religous leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak and anonymity. Sultana tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage—a happy one until her husband decided to displace her by taking a second wife—and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants. Although they share affection, confidences and an easy camaraderie within the confines of the women's quarters, they also share a history of appaling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations; thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room," a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them. By speaking out, Sultana risks bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and the heads of her children. But by telling her story to Jean Sasson, Sultana has allowed us to see beyond the veils of this secret society, to the heart of a nation where sex, money, and power reign supreme.