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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
"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...
8) Let me play!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Brendan does not think that girls can be pirates, but Tara proves that girls can be anything!
Author
Series
Feminist Press reprint volume no. 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest.
As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie is an ordinary third-grader - except for one very extraordinary problem...she accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself and learned that wishes really do come true, and in the strangest ways!
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian -- born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness -- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations -- looking, listening, touching, and asking -- something a man can never do with a female...
Author
Series
Adventures of Benny and Watch volume 3
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 12
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Headmaster Mordred is trying to impress a new student, who he believes to be the first female at Dragon Slayers' Academy, the ghost of one of the school's founders besieges the halls seeking his stolen gold.
15) The Lie Tree
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
17) Madam President
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
19) Firstborn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tiadone has been forced to live her entire life as a female accepted as male in her community in order to survive as a firstborn child. But when she needs to pass the rites of manhood, she finds the Creator may have use for her feminine traits after all"--
20) Eleanor Hill
Author
Publisher
Front Street/Cricket Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, inspired by a free-thinking teacher and determined not to get married and stay trapped in her North Carolina fishing village, teenage Eleanor sets out to seek her chosen path of living as an independent woman.
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