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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 things--her mind. True chemistry results. But like science,...
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Song of the lioness volume 1
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Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, a learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.
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Baseball card adventures volume 5
Description
When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
7) On the fence
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"Sixteen-year-old Charlie has always been a tomboy, but when she accidentally becomes a makeup model, her newfound feminity draws her into an unknown social world, complete with guy troubles she's never had before"--
8) Squire
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Protector of the small volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
399 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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After becoming a squire to Lord Raoul, commander of the King's Own, Kel of Mindelan, must face a terrifying test in the Chamber of the Ordeal before she can be a knight.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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487 pages : map ; 24 cm
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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.
10) Newt's emerald
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
12) Dragon dreams
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Royal Princess Academy volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
102 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Attending her first year at the Royal Princess Academy, Emma prefers soccer to ballroom dancing and dreams of one day riding a dragon.
13) Elena's serenade
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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In Mexico, a little girl goes on a journey to learn to be a glassblower and gains confidence along the way.
14) Ruby's wish
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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.
16) Rickshaw girl
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In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
17) Full cicada moon
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
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.
18) Madam President
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A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
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Although she can predict the weather much better than the boys in her family, no one thinks that Phyllis the groundhog has a chance of replacing the aging Punxsutawney Phil when Groundhog Day's official groundhog retires.
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