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2020., Iron Circus Comics Call No: GN B Banned Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: During South Korea's Fifth Republic from 1981 to 1987, Kim Hyun Sook convinces her traditional mother that women should go to college. In 1983, Sook looks forward to immersing herself in Western literature, but she finds out that reading can be a life-or-death activity under a totalitarian regime. A young man invites Sook to a reading group, which she learns is actually a secretive group reading banned books in a basement. Sook goes on to describe how rebellious reading changed the country.
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By De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971- Huerta, Dolores, 1930- Bartlett, Bonnie, 1929- Molina, Gloria Morrison, Susan Davis, Williabel Jones, 1947- McEvoy, Trish Semrud-Clikeman, Margaret Steinkellner, Cheri Bowen, Brenda Zambello, Francesca Davis, Babette Knight, Holly Stohl, Margaret Ponder, Anna Katheryn Lorie, Jill, 1967- Adams, Katrina, 1968- Bray, Libba Falik, Abby, 1[2017]., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 305.4 BEC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The collection includes writings from an impressive array of girls and women who are trailblazers in their fields, including bestselling authors Victoria Aveyard, Libba Bray, and Margaret Stohl; Hollywood heavy-hitters such as Quvenzhane Wallis; renowned chef Katie Button; aerospace and mechanical engineer Emily Calandrelli; and many more.
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2007., Little, Brown Call No: 813 .6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Publisher description Summary Note: The death of her father leads a teenage girl in seventeenth-century Iran to go live with her mother as a servant in the home of her uncle, a wealthy rug designer in the court of the Shah, where she is able to develop her talent for rug design--a skill that becomes vital to her survival after her lack of a dowry forces her into a contract marriage, renewable every three months, with the son of a horse trader.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Andrews McMeel Publishing Call No: HISTORICAL F SMI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This enchanting novel in verse captures one woman's struggle for equality, independence, and identity as a Greek immigrant in troubled 1930s America"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Cinder and glass2022., General, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fantasy Fic DE LA CRUZ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For this princess, winning the crown is no fairytale.
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[2020]., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL F STA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Edyth grew up in a quiet village with a loving family, before losing everything she holds dear in the blink of an eye. Suddenly sent to live in a priory and work with ancient texts, Edyth must come to terms with her new life and the gifts she discovers in herself. But outside the priory, something much worse is coming. With the reappearance of a boy from her past and the ominous Great Plague creeping closer and closer to the priory, it will be up to Edyth to rise above it all and save herself"--Provided by the publisher.
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2015., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how Japan sent five girls, raised in traditional samurai households, to be educated in the United States in 1871 in order to return to Japan and raise a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Follows three of these young women as they grow up in San Francisco, learn English and Western customs, forge friendships, and then return to Japan ten years later with a goal of promoting women's education. Draws on archival research in both countries, and decades of letters between the women and their American host families.
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2020., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: SUPERNATURAL F IRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her. But she won't be in it alone. Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by, and that Jane needs her too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not. Watching Jane's back, however, is more than she bargained for, and it's up to Katherine to keep hope alive, even as she begins to fear that there is no happily ever after for girls like her.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Historical Fic Lee Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan's day job is doing maid work for the spoiled daughter of one of Atlanta's wealthiest men; by night, Jo writes as Miss Sweetie for a news paper advice column. When Jo's "Dear Miss Sweetie" articles become popular, she begins to use her pen-power to address society's ills, particularly challenging ideas about gender and race, drawing a backlash and attempts to uncover her real identity. Then, Atlanta's most notorious criminal gets on Jo's trail, and she will have to decide on standing up for her beliefs or remaining in the shadows of anonymity.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Second Story Press Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A group of six mismatched girls work together on a Canadian farm in 1943 as the second World War is raging, doing the jobs of the men who have gone to war.
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[2016]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL F GRA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Front Lines Volume: 1Summary Note: "1942, World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this World War II, women and girls fight, too. As the fate of the world hangs in the balance, three girls sign up to fight. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams and aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of their loves. Each has her own reasons for volunteering. Not one expects to see actual combat. Not one expects to be on the front lines. Rio, Frangie, and Rainy will play their parts in the war to defeat evil and save the future of the human race. They will fear and they will rage; they will suffer and they will inflict suffering; they will hate and they will love. They will fight the greatest war the world has ever known." -- From dust jacket.
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2000., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 305.23 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scholastic referenceSummary Note: Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Adolescent, Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends Call No: Historical Fic Pink Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Social Issues Edition: Young readers ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for education for girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her parents to pursue an education, and how the Taliban retaliated against her by trying to kill her.
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2014., LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HI-INT B YOU Edition: Young readers edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school.
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2013., Little, Brown and Company Call No: 954.9122 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school.
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-- Girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban2013., Little, Brown and Company Call No: 921 YOUSAFZAI YOU Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
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-- Girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban2013., Little, Brown and Company Call No: B YOUSAFZAI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
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-- Joan of Arc reimagined[2019]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HISTORICAL F HEM Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. This verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation."--Jacket flap.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: HI-INT 323.3 DIO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of Black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle."--Publisher's description.
