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Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
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.
82) A girl named Dan
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A's, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author's note on Title IX.
83) Mud city
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 3
Language
English
Description
In order to earn enough money to buy a way out of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives, Shauzia dresses like a boy, but is forced into panhandling and ends up in jail, gaining hope only when a well-meaning American family rescues her.
85) Newt's emerald
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After the Newington Emerald is stolen at the height of a conjured storm, eighteen-year-old Lady Truthful Newington goes to London, disguised as a man, to search for the magical heirloom of her house, and is soon caught up in a dangerous adventure where she must risk her life, her reputation, and her heart.
86) Madam President
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
87) Mickey & me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First Harper Trophy edition.
Language
English
Description
When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
88) Open fire
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1917 Russia, seventeen-year-old Katya joins the first all-female battalion to fight the Germans, but she soon finds that patriotism alone won't help her survive the realities of war"--
1917. Russia is losing the war with Germany, soldiers are deserting in droves, and food shortages on the home front are pushing people to the brink of revolution. Katya is politically conflicted, but she wants Russia to win the war. When the government begins recruiting...
89) Rainbow boy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Unable to choose one favorite color, a young boy enjoys wearing a pink tutu on Sundays, playing with an orange basketball on Tuesdays, and trying to change things with a purple wand on Saturdays.
93) Lobizona
Author
Series
Wolves of no world volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hilary Westfield is now sailing the seas as the Terror of the Southlands, but when Miss Pimm is discovered missing, Hilary decides to find the Enchantress with the help of first mate Charlie, finishing school friend Claire, and the always intrepid gargoyle.
97) Rickshaw girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
98) Ice clash
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For the past three years twelve-year-old Louise and her adopted brother Otto have played on the same hockey team, and Lou is used to being one of the best centers on the team; but when their coach's reserve unit is called up, his replacement puts his own son at center and relegates Lou to the bench--and when his son's arrogance starts costing them goals Lou and the team must convince him that girls can be hockey stars too.
100) Daniela pirata
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Tercera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Daniela wants to join the crew of Captain Orejacortada's much-feared pirate ship, but before she can do so, she must pass a series of tests, which everyone aboard expects her to fail, as they do not want a girl among them.
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