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85) W Juliet: Vol. 3
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Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Sixteen-year-old tomboy Ito Miura has become fast friends with her schoolmate and fellow drama enthusiast Makoto Amano. The problem? Makoto's a boy who must pass as a female drama student in order for his family to approve of his acting ambitions.
86) Palace of Stone
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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.
87) The grace year
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Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Seventeen-year-old Victoria "Vicky" Darling in the year 1909 has been brought up to be a proper wealthy woman, to be nothing more than a wife and then a mother. Vicky would very much rather become an artist, and when she poses nude for an art class she has been taking in secret she is discovered, and her parents decide to try to marry her off quickly to cover up the shame. However, Vicky is stubborn, and determines to take her future in her own hands....
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement, forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination in hiring and promotion. It was the first female class action lawsuit, and it inspired other women in the media to follow suit. Povich was one of the ringleaders. She tells the story of this dramatic turning point through the lives of several participants, and shows how personal experiences...
91) The foretelling
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Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"It's 1967, and Katherine Roebling is a Chicago-based stewardess caught between the hold of highflying travel and the call of her Native American ancestors just as the women's movement is taking the US by storm. As she vacillates between an ever-present mystical ancestral feather and her alluring stewardess life of excitement and travel, she embarks on a journey from one adventure to the next--each episode bringing her closer to her predestined calling....
93) Seafire
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Follows Caledonia Styx, captain of her own ship, the Mors Navis, and its all-female crew as they strive to defeat the powerful fleet of Aric Athair, the vicious warlord who has taken their homes and families.
94) Full cicada moon
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
95) Madam President
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Publisher Annotation: As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She'd rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee. But when Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she's in love with Woods, Billie's filled with a nagging sadness as she realizes that...
97) Firehorse
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Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
98) Lobizona
Author
Series
Wolves of no world volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When her mother is arrested by ICE, sixteen-year-old Argentinian Manu--who thinks she is hiding in a Miami apartment because she is an undocumented immigrant--discovers that her entire existence is illegal.
99) Ruby's wish
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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.