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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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English
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls and women now have immense physical power-- they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And everything changes ...
4) Tough Eddie
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although Eddie appears to be a tough kid, he also plays with a dollhouse, a secret he feels he cannot reveal even to his closest friends.
5) Pugdog
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mike discovers that his rough-and-tumble new puppy is a female, he trys to make her into a dainty dog.
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English
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. We rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality in an exposé...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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After leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston, under dire circumstances, of course, she boards a whaling ship bound for London, where she hopes to find her beloved Jaimy. But things don't go as planned, and soon Jacky is off on a wild misadventure at sea. She thwarts the lecherous advances of a crazy captain, rallies the sailors to her side, and ultimately gains command of a ship in His Majesty's Royal Navy. But Jacky's adventures...
8) Lady knight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When she became a knight, eighteen-year-old Kel hoped to be given a combat post, but instead she finds herself named commander of an outpost of refugees, where she must face the unnatural forces of the evil Balyce.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that women inhabit and the parts that they must play. A sense of otherworldly menace is at work in the fiction of Nicole Flattery, but the threats are all too familiar. SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME tells the stories of women slotted away into restrictive roles: the celebrity's girlfriend, the widower's second wife, the lecherous professor's student, the corporate employee....
11) A tale of magic
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Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
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"When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. But with the help of the mysterious Madame...
13) Seafire
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Series
Seafire trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, whose lives have been turned upside down by Aric and his men. The crew has one misson: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet. But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command...
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English
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The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards. Hinging on the courtship between the arrogant Petruchio and the "shrew" of the title Katherina, it is unclear whether Shakespeare's blatantly misogynistic themes were in earnest or tongue in cheek. The charming and tender Bianca is forbidden to marry until her elder sister, Katherine is spoken for. Bianca's suitors enlist Petruchio to woo
...15) The witch boy
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Series
Witch boy (Ostertag) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted... and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help -- as a witch. It will take the encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
18) Haveli
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.
19) Squire
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After becoming a squire to Lord Raoul, commander of the King's Own, Kel of Mindelan, must face a terrifying test in the Chamber of the Ordeal before she can be a knight.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
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