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1) The Lie Tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
3) First test
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills" and tries to figure out what it means that she likes shop class better than home economics.
8) Just Ella
Author
Series
Palace chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
11) Gender blender
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the students in health class at George Wilson Middle School are assigned girl/boy partners to discuss gender issues, no one could imagine that two students would actually switch bodies.
12) Seesaw girl
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
15) Tofu quilt
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1960s Hong Kong, a young girl dreams of becoming a writer in spite of conventional limits placed on her by society and family.
16) Crane
Author
Series
Five ancestors. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In China in the mid-seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Hok, disguised as a boy for most of her life, must now assume her proper identity as a girl and try to save her brothers' lives by entering the notorious Jinan City Fight Club.
17) A dastardly plot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair.
Author
Series
Tales of Rowan Hood volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When he is banned from his school's soccer team for an infraction he didn't commit, Noah must find his own way to enter the Schools' World Cup tournament and joins up with an unlikely cast of teammates, St. Mary's School for Girls.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.
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