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83) 19 girls and me
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
John Hercules is worried about being the only boy in his kindergarten class, but after the first week he stops worrying.
84) Caddie Woodlawn
Author
Series
Language
English
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Caddie Woodlawn, a young girl on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s, refuses to be a lady and prefers to have adventures with her brothers.
85) The book eaters
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and...
87) Crane
Author
Series
Five ancestors volume 4
Language
English
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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.
89) Bound
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004.
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.
90) Stormbreak
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.
93) Elena's serenade
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
In Mexico, a little girl goes on a journey to learn to be a glassblower and gains confidence along the way.
Author
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--
97) The Corpse Queen
Author
Language
English
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Description
Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
98) Ruby's wish
Author
Publisher
Chronicle
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Ruby is unlike most little girls in old China. Instead of aspiring to get married, Ruby is determined to attend university when she grows up, just like the boys in her family. Based upon the inspirational story of the author's grandmother and accompanied by richly detailed illustrations, Ruby's Wish is an engaging portrait of a young girl who strives for more and a family who rewards her hard work and courage.
99) Newt's emerald
Author
Language
English
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Description
After the Newington Emerald is stolen at the height of a conjured storm, eighteen-year-old Lady Truthful Newington goes to London, disguised as a man, to search for the magical heirloom of her house, and is soon caught up in a dangerous adventure where she must risk her life, her reputation, and her heart.
100) Punxsutawney Phyllis
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Although she can predict the weather much better than the boys in her family, no one thinks Phyllis the groundhog has a chance of replacing the aging Punxsutawney Phil when Groundhog Day's official groundhog retires.
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