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Princesses are not quitters!

2003
Three bored princesses decide to become servants for a day and learn what hard work is all about.

Chester, the out-of-work dog

1997
Chester's attempts to find a herding job after his human family moves into town prove disastrous until he meets a group of lost children.

The laziest robot in zone one

1983
Sol-1 helps all his friends with their work in the process of avoiding his own.

How Mr. Monkey saw the whole world

1996
Mr. Buzzard avoids working for his food by tricking the other animals, but Mr. Monkey finds a way to remedy the situation.

The spinner's daughter

1994
When Elspeth, a hardworking Puritan girl, receives a cornhusk doll from a Pequot Indian, her mother fears that Elspeth will become idle.

Red wagon

2011
Lucy wants to play with her new red wagon as soon as she gets it, but first she must use it to bring vegetables home from the market for her mother.

Grandy Thaxter's helper

2004
When Death shows up to take her away, Grandy Thaxter finds so much work for him to do that he decides to come back when she is not so busy.

Chester, the out-of-work dog

1992
Chester's attempts to find a herding job after his human family moves into town prove disastrous until he meets a group of lost children.

Love and other perishable items

2012
A fifteen-year-old Australian teenager named Amelia gets her first job at a supermarket and crushes on her unattainable older co-worker, Chris, as they both search for meaning in their lives.

The clock

1992
In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.

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