Higuera, Donna Barba
Summary: "Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGGehl, Laura
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text challenge the idea that boys and girls should each wear only certain colors or play with certain toys, and encourages them to be true to themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little bee Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEHPierce, Tamora.
Summary: 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. When Alanna became the King's Champion, it was decided that girls would henceforth be allowed to train for the knighthood. But ten years have passed, and no girls have come forward. Now, however, someone is about to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIEParker, Natalie C.
Summary: After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, whose lives have been turned upside down by Aric and his men. The crew has one misson: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PARShinkai, Makoto
Summary: "Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a rural town deep in the mountains, has a dream that she is a boy living an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As they realize they are changing places, their encounter sets the cogs of fate into motion."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIBergin, Virginia
Summary: Sixty years after a virus wiped out nearly all men on earth, fourteen-year-old River finds a sick boy, Mason, and helps restore his health while learning dark truths behind the lies she has been told.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BerginHoffman, Sarah
Summary: Jacob loves playing dress-up, when he can be anything he wants to be. Some kids at school say he can't wear "girl" clothes, but Jacob wants to wear a dress to school. Can he convince his parents to let him wear what he wants?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2014
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Summary: Rhyming text presents the argument that girls and boys are equal, offering such lessons as "no means no" and "women's rights are human rights."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Bookworks 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MEROsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: No girls allowed at the Olympic Games! That's the rule when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece. But when Annie tells Jack to go to the games without her, he knows she's up to something. Will Annie find a way to see the games? Or will she get herself--and Jack--into Olympic-size trouble?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONGarmus, Bonnie
Summary: "Chemist 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 early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: Veronyka, sixteen, leaves her controlling sister and disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors who ride phoenixes into battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PAUHenning, Sarah
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poppy, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENGreen, D. L. (Debra L.)
Summary: Third-grader Zeke Meeks already has two sisters, so he is bitterly disappointed when his new neighbor proves to be a girl--can Charlie change his mind and prove to him that boys and girls can play together?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GREPearlman, Robb
Summary: A celebration of how colors are for everyone depicts characters engaging in their favorite activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2018
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Summary: After a century of service to goblin lord Soren, Janneke, seventeen, the only mortal in the Permafrost, clings to her humanity as she faces difficult choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BARPierce, Tamora.
Summary: Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindelan continues her training to become a squire with the aid of a new maid, the support of her friends, interference from some other pages, and some serious, even dangerous opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluefire 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIEAdler, Dahlia
Summary: Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it's an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose. The players refuse to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ADLTanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANPacton, Jamie
Summary: "Working as a Wench--i.e., waitress--at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly wishes she could be a Knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can hold a spot at her dream college and help her mom pay the mortgage. Company policy allows only guys to be Knights. So when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PACLee, Kimberly
Summary: "A young Malaysian boy enthusiastically assists his grandmother prepare their Lunar New Year dinner, all the while learning about the history of their traditional cuisine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEERyan, Pam Muñoz
Summary: On the eve of her Quinceañera, Princess Solimar discovers that it will take more than magic to save her kingdom and prevent the destruction of the Monarch butterfly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RYAShovan, Laura
Summary: Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHOSass, A. J.
Summary: "Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022