18 books like The Parent's Assistent
The wise woman
The Wise Woman abducts a princess and a peasant girl and carries them off to her magical cottage in the forest in order to teach them the lessons of Christian love and humility.
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The Marble Crusher
Albert is the new boy at school and believes all the tall stories that Sid tells him; but one day Sid goes too far, with the tale of the dreaded Japanese super efficient marble crushing machine. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Shares: Honesty, Short Stories, Children's fiction
A Pack of Lies
As MCC Berkshire, the mysterious, book-obsessed man helping in Ailsa's mother's antique shop, tells wild stories that persuade customers to buy various items, teenaged Ailsa believes he is a liar but fears that he is not.
Shares: Honesty, Short Stories, Children's fiction
Spooky! (Treetops)
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How To Eat Fried Worms
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The little bookroom
Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer.
Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction
Krindlekrax
Although he is very thin with frizzy hair and thick glasses, nine-year-old Ruskin believes he is born to be a hero and sets out to prove it by delivering his beloved Lizard Street from the menace of Krindlekrax.
Shares: Children's plays, Children's fiction
A Christmas Carol
A retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas.
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Liar
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
Shares: Honesty, Children's fiction
A Little Princess
This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a…
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Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.
Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction
Meg and Mog
Meg the witch meets her friends for a Halloween party but something goes wrong with the spell they cast.
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Aru Shah And The End Of Time
Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty,…
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Among the enemy
this book is part of the shadow children sequel. a few shadow children decide to work for the population police and save all the shadow children they can.
Shares: Conduct of life, Children's fiction
La Petite Sirene (French Well Loved Tales)
A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the love of a prince and earn an immortal soul for herself.
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The Firework-maker's Daughter
In a country far to the east, Chulak and his talking white elephant Hamlet help Lila seek the Royal Sulphur from the sacred volcano so that she can become a master maker of fireworks like her father.
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9 From the Nine Worlds
Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase series star in these short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.
The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy may have concluded, but we haven't heard the last of our favorite peeps from the Nine Worlds.
Join Hearthstone, Blitzen, Samirah, Alex, Jack, T.J., Mallory, Halfborn, and more on a hilarious and…
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The Tempest (adaptation)
An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare play with background information and explanatory stage directions.
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