"Stella Starflake Pearl just wants to be part of the Polar Bear Explorers Club. But Stella's a girl, and everyone knows that girls aren't allowed to be explorers. Stella's ready to prove everyone wrong"--

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.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

When Clementina and Arturo got married, Clementina dreamed about a life filled with adventure and discovery. Arturo, however, preferred a quiet life with no surprises. Arturo y Clementina son dos tortugas que descubren el amor que siente la una por el otro. Sin embargo la vida matrimonial es algo difícil, aún para la tortugas.

El maestro de mu?sica de Chavi cree que solamente los varones deben tocar las tumbadores en el festival de la calle Ocho de Miami, pero Chavi sabe que es buena tocadora y busca un me?todo para demostrarlo. Chavi's music teacher believes that only boys should play drums in Miami's Festival de la Calle Ocho, but Chavi knows she is a good musician and looks for a way to prove it.

An empowering and educational picture book that proves colors are for everyone, regardless of gender. Pink is for boys . . . and girls . . . and everyone! This timely and beautiful picture book rethinks and reframes the stereotypical blue/pink gender binary and empowers kids-and their grown-ups-to express themselves in every color of the rainbow. Featuring a diverse group of relatable characters, Pink Is for Boys invites and encourages girls and boys...

"A biographical novel in verse of three different girls in three different time periods who grew up to become groundbreaking scientists"--

"In the city of Tainan, there lives a very special family -- special because they have ten sons who do everything together. Their parents call them their ten little dumplings, as both sons and dumplings are auspicious. But if you look closely, you'll see that someone else is there, listening, studying, learning and discovering her own talent -- a sister. As this little girl grows up in the shadow of her brothers, her determination and persistence...

"Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de television mas seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada de acido acetico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que su exito aumenta lo hacen tambien sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no solo esta ensenando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambien desafiandolas a alterar el orden establecido....

"Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she's listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor's Directory, and is horrified to find he is far more attractive than his actions have led her to expect. However, Diana is unmoved by Max's...