Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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c2007, Pre-adolescent, Hyperion Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In India in the 1940's, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
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c2007., American Girl Pub. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American girls collection. Volume: 1.Summary Note: In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: JUV032010 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball. Includes brief, illustrated biographies of female baseball players, historical note, glossary, and recommended reading.
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2019., Juvenile, Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: FIC KLAGES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball. Includes brief, illustrated biographies of female baseball players, historical note, glossary, and recommended reading.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: SPORTS F KLA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: The Gordon Family Saga Volume: 3Summary Note: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball. Includes brief, illustrated biographies of female baseball players, historical note, glossary, and recommended reading.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Colin finds a shoebox full of letters hidden in a stranger's attic, he knows he's supposed to throw them away. That's his summer job, getting rid of junk. But Colin wants to rescue the letters--and find out what really happened to best friends Rosemary and Toby way back in the 1970s. Meanwhile, across town, Nevaeh also finds a mysterious letter. But this one reads like a confession to a crime. And Nevaeh knows her father, the 'Junk King,' expects her to join the rest of the family in blaming a single suspect: his business rival, Colin's mom. But that's not what Nevaeh wants, either. Even as one set of letters bring Colin and Nevaeh together, the one Nevaeh found threatens to tear them apart. Is their new friendship as doomed as Rosemary and Toby's?"--From the publisher's web site.
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2019., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: Teen FIC WAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
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2019., Adolescent, Bloomsbury YA Call No: REALISTIC F WAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial microaggressions she experiences--and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate in real life, the principal shuts the club down. Not willing to be silenced, Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices--and those of other young women--to be heard. These two dynamic, creative young women stand up and speak out in a novel that features their compelling art and poetry along with powerful personal journeys that will inspire readers and budding poets, feminists, and activists.
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2020., Adolescent, Bloomsbury YA Call No: FIC WATSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends who are sick over the way their school fails to listen to their voices so they start a new club, one dedicated to writing and creating work that supports women's ideas. But when their work goes viral, fans and foes come out online and in real life, and the school administration threatens to shut them down for "instigating." They will risk everything for their voices--and those of other young women--to be heard.
