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Song of the lioness volume 2
Language
English
Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer whom she knows she will one day have to face.
2) Rainbow boy
Author
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Grace and fury volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate world where women have no rights, two sisters face very different fates after an attempt to win the favor of the heir to the throne--one in the palace, the other on a volcanic prison island.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 4
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of the skilled knight and warrior, Alanna, as she wins the magical Jewel of Domaine and uses its powers to save her kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
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"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
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Series
Breadwinner series volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The fourth book in the internationally bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and Mud City.
In this stunning sequel, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan.
On a military base in Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out
...10) Palace of stone
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Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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.
11) Squire
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 3
Language
English
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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.
13) In the spotlight
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kit's pageant rival Melody loses her rabbit, Ellie believes she can build a contraption to catch him, but she begins to doubt herself when Melody insists that a pageant is no place for messy engineering experiments.
15) Joy in Mudville
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
The day after Mighty Casey's strikeout, the Mudville Nine are in a crucial game when a relief pitcher--a girl--is sent in and quickly proves herself to the crowd using moves from football, tennis, and soccer.
16) Mickey & me
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Series
Baseball card adventures volume 5
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
I survived volume 24
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
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Description
"The Black Death was a pandemic of unimaginable proportions, taking the lives of 75 - 200 million people worldwide. Lauren Tarshis's story of one girl surviving the plague pulses with terror, action, and hope. The deadliest disease in the history of the world... Elsie dreams of becoming a brave warrior like her father, who is an archer fighting in England's war against France. But life isn't fair in 1348 Europe. Peasant girls like Elsie can't be archers...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
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
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After listing activities that are stereotypically, but not always, attributed to princesses, fairies, pirates, superheroes, and more, encourages the reader to imagine what one could be, despite others' expectations. Includes note to parents.
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Language
English
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Description
Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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