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Author
Series
Princesses of myth volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
449 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In ancient Japan, Himiko, the privileged daughter of her clan's leader, fights the constraints and expectations imposed on young women and finds her own path, which includes secret shaman lessons
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
2003, c1989
Physical Desc
240, 17,10 p. ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From debut novelist Laura Maylene Walter, a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own--except that the markings on women's bodies reveal the future"--
85) The beloved wild
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
309 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
Author
Series
The petticoat party volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
200 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.
89) Haveli
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
259 p. : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives. Sequel to "Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind."
90) The Corpse Queen
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
91) Girl in blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
310 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Andrea, a reluctant, tomboyish princess from the Kingdom of Zeltia--a world resembling medieval Spain--is transported from a forbidden cave into modern California, and when she accidentally returns to her home with the wrong person, it sets off a chain reaction that threatens her family and their kingdom.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri"--
95) Bound
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
96) Rover
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildrensPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
283 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Captured by Vikings, young Hekja is taken as a slave to Greenland by the daughter of Erik the Red, and accompanied by no one from her homeland but her loyal dog, shares adventures with her new mistress, who is determined to make a name for herself as her father and brother have.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century Europe, Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, a musician whose talent and dedication is overshadowed by that of her gifted younger brother, Wolfgang, struggles to win the notice of her father and patrons who might further her career, despite her gender
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her
99) Note worthy
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's the start of Jordan Sun's junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, she's an Alto 2, which--in the musical theatre world--is sort of like being a vulture in the wild: She has a spot in the ecosystem, but nobody's falling over themselves to express their appreciation. So it's no surprise when she gets shut out of the fall musical for the third year straight. Then the school gets a mass email:...
Author
Series
Tales of Rowan Hood volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.
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