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You Go Girl:
Being Extraordinary Accounts of Courageous Girls’ Adventures |
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The Illyrian Adventure
by Lloyd Alexander
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It's 1872, and adventurous Vesper Holly and her guardian set out for the tiny country of Illyria on a quest for its legendary treasure. But once Vesper and Brinnie arrive, they are plunged into a fierce struggle between rebel forces--and someone is out to kill the two of them. More...
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
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Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the "Seahawk" reeks of despair and mutiny. But from her seemingly powerless position, the lone passenger, 13-year-old Charlotte Doyle, dares to become the center of a deadly voyage. Newbery Honor Book. More...
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The Escape from Home
by Avi
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Twelve-year-old Patrick and 15-year-old Maura O'Connell are fleeing the ravages of Ireland's potato famine and heading for America. In the port city of Liverpool, their paths cross with 11-year-old Lawrence Kirkle, who is running not from poverty, but from his father, a wealthy English lord. Together, they head for America, hotly pursued by friend and foe alike. More...
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The Secret of Castle Cant: Being an Account of the Remarkable Adventures of Lucy Wickwright, Maidservant and Spy
by K. P. Bath
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With remarkable wit and a flair for the fantastic, this debut author captivates readers with fast-paced action, a cast of eccentric characters, and two strong female heroines who learn that cunning and heroism are not merely words in a storybook. Illustrations. More...
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray
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It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one.... More...
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Dragon's Keep
by Janet Lee Carey
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On Wilde Island, Princess Rosalind is born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be. To hide the secret, the Queen forces her to wear gloves, but Rosalind's flaw cannot be separated from her fate in this stunning portrayal of the complex relationship between a mother and daughter. More...
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Star-Crossed
by Linda Collison
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Patricia Kelley has been raised a proper British lady--but she's become a stowaway. Her father is dead, and her future in peril. To claim the estate that is rightfully hers, she must travel across the seas to Barbados, hidden in the belly of merchant ship.... More...
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The Misadventures of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse
by Audrey Couloumbis
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Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the "second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about.... More...
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Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
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Set against a backdrop of life in a medieval manor, a 14-year-old girl feels trapped because her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man. She manages to send several would-be husbands packing, but then comes a man from the north--the oldest, the ugliest, and the richest. More...
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A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly
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Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy, " this coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, real, and wholly original. More...
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The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy
by Clare B. Dunkle
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For thousands of years, young women been vanishing from the Hallow Hill estate. Now Kate and Emily have come to live there. They have no idea of the land's dreadful heritage--until the powerful magician Marak tells them himself. More...
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I, Coriander
by Sally Gardner
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With atmospheric writing, Gardner creates a new exhilarating fairy tale of a young girl who in the 17th century discovers she has inherited mysterious abilities from her mother. More...
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A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
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After the death of her mother, Nhamo is left a virtual slave in her small African village. Upon learning that before her 12th birthday she must marry a cruel man with three other wives, Nhamo desperately decides to run away. More...
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The Oracle Betrayed
by Catherine Fisher
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Timid Mirany is chosen to be a priestess to serve the High Priestess, who interprets the wishes of the god as conveyed through the Oracle. However, Mirany is unprepared for the dangers of her exalted position. More...
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Alphabet of Dreams
by Susan Fletcher
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Mitra and her brother Babak are exiled royals living on the streets as orphaned beggars. Babak possesses a strange gift of being able to know someone's dreams, and soon they find themselves on the road to Bethlehem in this biblical epic. More...
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Rover
by Jackie French
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When Viking raiders attack Hekja's peaceful village and take her and her puppy prisoner, they are at first terrified of the strange new surroundings. Soon, to their amazement, they find their place within the clan and embark on incredible sea voyages. More...
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Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale
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All the teenage girls from a small mountain village must attend the academy to learn how to become a princess. Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen. More...
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The Goose Girl
by Shannon Hale
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Basing her story on the Grimms' fairy tale, Hale's debut weaves an incredible and original tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she's made her own. More...
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Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale
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Set in a medieval Asian land, a classic Brothers Grimm tale is reimagined by a Newbery Honor author. In this completely unique retelling, filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise, a young maid sacrifices her freedom to accompany her mistress into exile. Illustrations. More...
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