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41) 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.
43) Nomansland
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
44) 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.
47) 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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
Author
Series
Sisters of the Sword volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.
51) 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.
53) The end zone
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Olivia is fast, strong, and can catch. She loves flag football, but the boys won't let her play. Find out if Olivia ever gets to play flag football.
54) 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.
55) Epitaph Road
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When Hilary Westfield escapes Miss Pim's finishing school to join a misfit pirate crew, she embarks on an unexpectedly magical swashbuckling, plank-walking, searfaring journey"--
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.
58) Ruby's wish
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.
60) Joy in Mudville
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The day after Mighty Casey's strikeout, the Mudville Nine are in a crucial game when a relief pitcher -- a girl -- is sent in and quickly proves herself to the crowd using moves from football, tennis, and soccer.
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