Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press Call No: GR 741.5 TANAKA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press Call No: GN ELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan.
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2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: REALISTIC F BOT Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a bewildering encounter at her small town's annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love.
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-- Kings, queens, & in-betweens2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a bewildering encounter at her small town's annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love.
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-- Kings, queens, & in-betweens2019., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: TEEN FIC BOT Edition: 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a bewildering encounter at her small town's annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love.
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c2008, Pre-adolescent, Kids Can Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on legends, poems, letters and first-hand accounts, these seven biographical tales tell of women who disguised themselves as men. From ancient Egypt to the 19th century, this historically accurate graphic treatment transports readers to bygone eras. For the sake of freedom, ambition, love or adventure, these women risked everything.
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[2017], Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: REALISTIC F RED Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this timely YA novel, a teenage girl disguises herself as a boy to sneak into a competitive, all-male a cappella octet.
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1996., Ballantine Books Call No: Historical FIC Cross Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her older brother is killed, Joan, a rebellious ninth-century woman, assumes his identity, enters a monastery and becomes a great Christian scholar, eventually attaining the throne of Pope.
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[2014]., Crown Publishers Call No: MEMOIR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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[2015]., Broadway Books Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Foreign correspondent Jenny Nordberg reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
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[2015], Broadway Books Call No: Global Studies Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Foreign correspondent Jenny Nordberg reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
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[2015], Broadway Books Call No: 305.3 Nor Edition: First paperback edi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the Afghanistan culture of "bacha posh," young girls are raised as boys in families with only daughters, given preferential treatment through puberty, then forced into the female gender role of being a wife and mother.
