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33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History : from Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.
Uses poems, essays, letters, photographs and more to present the actions and achievements of women in the United States, from its beginnings up through the twentieth century.
240 p. 2002
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Aidinoff, Elsie V.
The Garden
Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view, as Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam and the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free.
403 p. 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
 Teens' Top Ten Winners
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Arnesen, Liv
No Horizon is so Far : Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica
To succeed, American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen would have to walk, ski, and ski-sail for nearly three months in temperatures as cold as -35[degree]F, towing their 250-pound supply sledges across almost two thousand miles of crevasse-ridden ice...An incredible true-life adventure of danger, suspense, and endurance, No Horizon Is So Far unforgettably celebrates two modern-day heroes. Book jacket.
253 p. 2003
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Exploration and Discovery
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Auch, Mary Jane
Ashes of Roses
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
250 p. 2002
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Bauer, Joan
Hope Was Here
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
186 p. 2000
Appears on the following book lists:
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Newbery Honor
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Blumenthal, Karen
Let Me Play : the Story of Title IX, the Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
Up until the 1970s, if you were a girl, you were told you shouldn't play team sports, or go to college. But, in 1972, Title IX changed that, by ensuring that girls have the same opportunities as boys to participate in sports and classes. But that change did not come without a fight.
152 p. 2005
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Jane Addams Peace Award for Older Readers
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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
For Freedom : the Story of a French Spy
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
181 p. 2003
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Brande, Robin
Evolution Me other Freaks of Nature
Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include Intelligent Design in lessons on evolution.
268 p. 2007
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My So-Called Life
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Castellucci, Cecil
The Plain Janes
When Jane moves to the suburbs, she thinks her life is over, but she meets three friends who form a club P.L.A.I.N., but can art really save a group of misfits from high school?
1 v. (unpaged) 2007
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Cirrone, Dorian
Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You
Sixteen-year-old Kayla, a ballet dancer with very large breasts, and her sister Paterson, an artist, are both helped and hindered by classmates as they confront sexism, conformity, and censorship at their high school for the arts while still managing to maintain their sense of humor.
213 p. 2005
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Colman, Penny
Where the Action Was : Women War Correspondents in World War II
During World War II...In spite of U.S. military regulations that forbade women to cover combat, Martha Gellhorn, Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Miller, and many others found ways to get where the action was... This is the exciting story of what they did and how they did it: flying bombing missions, taking photographs inside Buchenwald, stowing away on D day hospital ships, dodging bullets on Iwo Jima, and much more.
118 p. 2002
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Di Domenico, Kelly
Super Women in Science
Provides information on ten great women pioneers of science from North America and other parts of the globe.
102 p. 2002
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Dickinson, Peter
The Ropemaker
When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
375 p. 2001
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Printz Honor Books
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Donnelly, Jennifer
A Northern Light
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
396 p. 2004
Appears on the following book lists:
Mysteries for Teens
Good Reads for High School
Printz Honor Books
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Ensler, Eve
Insecure at Last : Losing it in Our Security-obsessed World
From the bestselling author of "The Vagina Monologues" comes an illuminating, provocative look at America's obsession with security in a post-9/11 world--and how people can experience freedom and true fulfillment by letting it go.
202 p. 2006
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Fleming, Candace
Our Eleanor : a Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life
From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south lawn, to representing America as the first female delegate to the United Nations, Eleanor rarely kept a second of her life for herself -- and she wouldn't have had it any other way.
176 p. 2005
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Freedman, Estelle B.
No Turning Back : the History of Feminism and the Future of Women
A narrative history of feminism traces the origins and evolution of gender inequalitiy and the emergence of Western feminism, discusses a wide range of women's issues in relation to national political agendas and social welfare, and assesses modern feminist approaches to family, work, creativity, politics, and sexuality.
446 p. 2002
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Goldsmith, Barbara
Obsessive Genius : the Inner World of Marie Curie
Goldsmith looks at the woman behind the icon of scientific discovery, and shows Curie (1867-1934) trying to balance a spectacular scientific career with the obligations of family, the prejudice of society, the constant search for adequate funding, and the battle for recognition. She draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews.
256 p. 2005
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Uprising
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
346 p. 2007
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Harrison, Mette Ivie
Mira Mirror
Long after the disappearance of Snow White's stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater.
314 p. 2006
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