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Author
Series
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As a boys-versus-girls war of practical jokes escalates in his third-grade classroom, Robert finds it difficult to ask a girl's help in learning to dance in time for a family wedding reception.
82) White stag
Author
Series
Permafrost volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised as a boy before becoming the only survivor of a village that was destroyed by fire, 17-year-old Janneke is sent to work in the court of merciless monsters for her captor's alluring nephew, Soren, who compels her to sever her ties to the human world.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 4
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Found wandering alone in a bombed-out Afghan school, 15-year-old Parvana mystifies American military forces by remaining silent, while spending her time remembering the past four years of her life, having been reunited with her mother and sisters and living in a village where her mother has finally managed to open a school for girls.
85) Chu Ju's house
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
86) Steel tide
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Caledonia may have lost her crew, and nearly died at the hand of a powerful foe, but she's been nursed back to health by a crew of former Bullets. Calling themselves the Blades, they escaped Aric Athair's clutches and now live a nomadic existence, ready to disappear at a moment's notice should trouble come their way. Caledonia wants to do more than just hide; she wants to find the Mors Navis and her beloved sisters. She wants to convince the Blades...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler’s pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women’s psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Joelle, a star baseball player, moves to a new town where the only option for girls is softball, she starts an all-girl baseball league against the wishes of her school coaches and others in the town.
Author
Series
Adventures of Benny and Watch volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benny anticipates making friends with the new kid down the street, but when he finds out that she's a girl, he is very disappointed.
Author
Series
Xiao lu da jiang xiao shuo volume SP021
Publisher
Xiao lu wen hua
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
Appears on list
Description
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
"Un capitán despiadado, una tripulación amotinada y una joven atrapada en medio. No cualquier joven es acusada de asesinato, llevada a juicio y declarada culpable. Pero yo era precisamente esa joven, y merece la pena contar mi historia incluso aunque sucediera años atrás...
Author
Series
Sisters of the Sword volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.
96) Nightbirds
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Simta, the magic of women is outlawed but four girls with unusual powers have the chance to change it all"--
The Nightbirds are Simta's best kept secret. Teenage girls from the Great Houses with magic coursing through their veins, the Nightbirds have the unique ability to gift their magic to others with a kiss. Magic--especially the magic of women--is outlawed and the city's religious sects would see them burned if discovered. But protected by...
97) I am drums
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A single-minded twelve-year-old drummer, challenged by her school's budget cuts and her family's financial woes, must find a way to keep her dreams of drumming alive"--
Author
Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Love, laughs, sexuality and secrets from LGBT superstar YouTube couple, Rose and Rosie. Rose and Rosie are known for their candid and hilarious YouTube videos ... but now they are taking oversharing to a whole new level. Discussing sexuality, revealing secrets and empowering others, Overshare is a book packed with Rose and Rosie's unique take on friendships, fame, mental health and LGBT issues. As visibly out members of the LGBT community, they open...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies--which is why women...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load"-the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small-is adversely affecting women's lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward for better balancing our lives. Launching a heated national conversation with her viral article "Women Aren't Nags; We're Just Fed Up"-viewed over two billion times-journalist...
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