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"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
Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
5) Page
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Squire
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
9) First test
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 3
Language
English
Description
Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert at the edge of Tortall in this third book in Tamora Pierce's Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning young adult series—now with a new look!
After achieving knighthood, Alanna leaves the capital city to explore the desert near the kingdom's borders. When the local Bazhir people discover her, they charge her with trespassing and sentence her to a duel to the death....
After achieving knighthood, Alanna leaves the capital city to explore the desert near the kingdom's borders. When the local Bazhir people discover her, they charge her with trespassing and sentence her to a duel to the death....
13) Is he a girl?
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although P.J. and his friends refuse to let Donna and Honey Bunny go camping with them because "camping is not for girls," the girls follow and get proof that camping is hard work even for boys.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing she will never run again once her feet are bound, Ailin rebels and refuses to follow this torturous tradition.
As a result, however, the family...
As a result, however, the family...
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rapunzel, weary of having to spend every Saturday washing and drying her long locks, devises a plan that gives her the freedom she wants to pursue other activities while still pleasing her prince--who says he loves her long hair.
18) Just Ella
Author
Series
Palace chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Being a princess isn't all that.... You've heard the fairytale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after... ???? Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and -- worst of all -- a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and certainly not charming. ???? As soon-to-be princess Ella deals with her newfound status, she comes to realize she is not "your majesty" material. But breaking off a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Miss Pimm, Enchantress of the Marsh, decides to retire, she enlists young Hilary Westfield to gather a band of scallywags and prepare to challenge Captain Blacktooth in an all-out battle for the presidency of the League in order to save the kingdom.
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Series
Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 12
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Headmaster Mordred is trying to impress a new student, who he believes to be the first female at Dragon Slayers' Academy, the ghost of one of the school's founders besieges the halls seeking his stolen gold.
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