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Series
Feminist Press reprint volume no. 3
Language
English
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Description
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest.
As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
Author
Series
The Agency volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
7) 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
Series
Publisher
Hogarth Shakespeare
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."
Kate Battista runs the house for her father and younger sister Bunny; her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. When her father's lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported just as they are on the verge of a breakthrough, Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that relys on Kate to help him....
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie Casey, a fictional character, helps start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
14) T is for AnTONia
Author
Series
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Toni tries out for the boy's football league against her father's wishes and school rules, she finds herself in after-school detention, where she meets three other girls who join her in forming the "Secret Keeper Girl Club." Includes a mother/daughter Girl Gab assignment.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When high school junior Liv Rodriquez is kicked off her private school's softball team and loses her scholarship she must join her new school's football team to prove she can be a team player, all while falling for the star quarterback"--
When softball star Liv Rodinsky throws one ill-advised punch during the most important game of the year, she loses her scholarship to her fancy private school, her boyfriend, and her teammates all in one fell swoop....
17) Weyward: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book--star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won't change her. Yet Alex is seduced by the firm's money and energy ... and by her cocksure male colleagues, who quickly take notice...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Author
Series
Radiant emperor volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
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