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42) Chivalrous
Author
Series
Valiant hearts volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In medieval North Brittania, Gwendolyn longs to be a knight like her brothers but is bound by her parents' treatment of her as only a marriage pawn"--
43) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
45) The beloved wild
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
46) I'm a girl!
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a rough and tumble little girl, who is sometimes mistaken for a boy, meets a boy who likes wearing princess dresses and playing with dolls, a wonderful friendship is born.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Holland Delviss, the only girl on the boys' high school hockey team, is forced to confront gender role expectations and her self-doubts when she is selected to be featured during HockeyFest and finds herself falling for her bossy team co-captain.
48) Bound
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After unearthing a conspiracy at court, Red Sparkle Stone, the foundling orphan Empress Elisa has taken under her wing, dares to become a recruit for the Royal Guard-something no woman has done before"--
Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name and a veiled past, but she's about to be adopted into the royal family-- by Empress Elisa herself. When the empress's greatest rival blocks the adoption, Red is left with no family and no...
50) What boys do
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text affirm that boys can do all things--love, laugh, cry, feel, and grow--and that each is perfect just the way he is.
51) Smoke in the sun
Author
Series
Flame in the mist volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Mariko must uncover deception in the imperial court and rescue Okami, while preparing for her nuptials"--
52) White stag
Author
Series
Permafrost volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Raised as a boy before becoming the only survivor of a village that was destroyed by fire, 17-year-old Janneke is sent to work in the court of merciless monsters for her captor's alluring nephew, Soren, who compels her to sever her ties to the human world.
53) Chaotic good
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cameron wants only to complete her costume portfolio in peace, but when a trip to the local comic shop results in a hostile reception from a male employee, she returns disguised as a boy at her twin brother's suggestion and finds herself drafted into a D&D campaign.
54) Stormbreak
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In this epic conclusion to the Seafire trilogy, ... Caledonia Styx will risk everything--her heart, her crew, and even her life--to defeat Lir and take back the Bullet Seas once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In late eighteenth-century London, Lillian, a freakishly tall woman who struggles to fit into society because of her size and desire to wear trousers, discovers a candlelit exotic animal emporium, where she finds her natural home taking care of and befriending wild animals brought from around the world.
56) Open fire
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda LAB
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father.".
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When high school junior Liv Rodriquez is kicked off her private school's softball team and loses her scholarship she must join her new school's football team to prove she can be a team player, all while falling for the star quarterback"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
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