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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...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although P.J. and his friends refuse to let Donna and Honey Bunny go camping with them because "camping is not for girls," the girls follow and get proof that camping is hard work even for boys.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Envious of her brothers who are in training to become knights, young Violetta disguises herself as a boy in order to take part in the big jousting contest in the hopes of showing everyone that she is just as capable.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm
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.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
70 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Future scientist Kimmy eagerly shares information about dinosaurs during a school field trip until classmate Jake tells her "girls aren't scientists," but Mr. Tiffin sets her straight.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle loves football almost as much as she loves her father but when she joins the Orville Middle School football team, not all of the boys, or parents, are pleased.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"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...
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sal drives a stagecoach alone for the first time to pick up and deliver mail, her mother is afraid she will meet local outlaw Poetic Pete, but Sal not only excels at roping, riding, and shooting, she is also an excellent singer.
12) The last word
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In 1861 London, eighteen-year-old Lucinda Leavitt evades plans to find her a suitable husband by enlisting the help of childhood friend David to seek the ending of her favorite author's last, unfinished book.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, and helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the fictional diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.