Washoe County Library System

When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death. What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true...

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.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a celebrityacclaimed as a leader in the feminist movement and castigated for her divorce, her relinquishment of custody of her daughter, and her unconventional second marriage. She was also widely read, with stories in popular magazines and with dozens of books in printing Her most famous short story, the intensely personal “The Yellow Wallpaper,” was read as a horror story when...

"After three other girls follow Mara's lead and join the football team, she's forced to confront her misconceptions about gender and her arch-nemesis"--

A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.

Living under a strict code of conduct in an all-female community 500 years after the earth's destruction, a sensitive teenaged girl raised to be a hunter discovers forbidden relics from the Time Before.

Explores the concept of dressing "like a girl," in which girls dress in space suits, police officer uniforms, and laboratory coats to prove that girls can be anything they want to be.

"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--

"Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization of young girls. Activist Melissa Wardy shares tangible advice for getting young girls to start thinking critically about sexed-up toys and clothes...

Lily Lupino is going to be an astronaut when she grows up. For now, shell have to settle for listening to science fiction programs on the radio. But when certified Spacetronaut Kosmo Kidd crash lands his wind-up rocket ship in Lilys kitchen, its a chance Lily cant pass up!Mistaking Lily for a boy, Kosmo agrees to take her back to his floating treehouse in the stars, but it doesnt take long for the other Spacetronauts to figure out that Lily is a girl....