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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Paperback crush...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A feminist reimagining of classic nursery rhymes depicts a Georgie Porgie who never dares to make the girls cry, a Little Bo-Peep who takes no-nonsense care of her sheep and a woman doctor who puts Humpty Dumpty together again.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Celebrating the idea that anything boys can do, girls can do better, a guide to adventure for girls of all ages includes such chapters as "Fourteen games of tag," "How to negotiate a salary," "Math tricks," and "Daisy chains and ivy crowns."
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family).
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