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Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Wanting to pay for her junior bridesmaid dress herself, Emma quickly finds herself challenged with not enough time to keep up with her various part-time jobs.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Meg Julliard returns to her hometown of Chicago to run her late father's apartment building. The building is in rough shape and the tenants are unusual. Ellie is an older woman living in the building but getting ready to move into a nursing home. Both women feel the upcoming holiday will be the worst Christmas ever. Can an unexpected friendship and a dress make for a magical season?
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Being seventeen during World War II is tough. Finding out you're the next keeper of the real Cinderella's dress is even tougher. Kate simply wants to create window displays at the department store where she's working, trying to help out with the war effort. But when long-lost relatives from Poland arrive with a steamer trunk they claim holds the Cinderella's dress, life gets complicated. Now, with a father missing in action, her new sweetheart shipped...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"1765. Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before.Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it's clear this was not his intended victim. 250 years later ... When...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Called upon to inventory the estate of a wealthy woman, Emilia Brown, a frugal and unnoticed woman in small-town Rhode Island, discovers an exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta dress in the woman's collection and changes her life to be able to purchase the dress.
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Verona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind: three pristine Victorian dresses, once owned by the famous poet Christina Rossetti. Hidden away in a trunk for nearly a century, they were recently discovered at the Fondazione Museo Menigatti and Marianne's expertise is needed before they go on exhibit. Still grieving the loss of her husband, the trip is also a reason for Marianne to start over. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years and has one night to finally make the feeling mutual....
Author
Series
BookShots volume novel
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos--until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New York City has become her erotic playground. But what began as a fantasy will go too far--and her next conquest could be her last.
11) Twirly pearly
Author
Publisher
Make Believe Ideas
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Pearly's mom insists that she wear a dress to her Aunt's wedding, she doesn't like the idea. However, her feelings change when she discovers the joys of twirling. It's not long before Pearly's twirling is causing all sorts of trouble, but when disaster strikes, can her spins save the day?
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Rosie finds a beautiful dress at the local thrift shop and discovers a name handwritten on the label: Mila, who must have loved the sparkly dress as much as Rosie--and when Rosie outgrows the dress, she adds her name to the label and returns it to the thrift shop for another girl to find and love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriella Monroe is doing her best to pretend that everything is fine, but her life is a mess. Sales are down at her vintage dress shop, her beloved grandmother isn't her usual spunky self, and Gabby desperately misses the closeness she had with her sisters, Margaret and Emma--who were once so inseparable that their family called them "the Monroe Musketeers." When the sisters stumble across a stash of letters that reveals their grandmother's secret...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her favorite dress have extraordinary adventures together, but when the girl emigrates from Greece to the United States they are separated, and the dress travels the world searching for her.
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