Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
7) The Lie Tree
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy?a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men. But inside, Faith is full of questions and curiosity, and she cannot resist mysteries: an unattended envelope, an unlocked door. She knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing. She knows that her family moved to the close-knit island of Vane because her famous scientist father was fleeing a reputation-destroying...
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional development.
10) Crane
Author
Series
Five ancestors volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In China in the mid-seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Hok, disguised as a boy for most of her life, must now assume her proper identity as a girl and try to save her brothers' lives by entering the notorious Jinan City Fight Club.
11) Boys are best!
Author
Publisher
Boxer Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Before they go to sleep at night, two brave boys talk about how boring girls are, with their dolls and their interest in clothes, and how afraid they are of everything, even ghosts, which they hope do not exist.
12) Madam President
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 230L
Language
English
Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shon begins to feel like he does all the hard work out in the fields, so he and his wife, Sian, switch jobs for the day, in this story based on an English folktale.
16) Señora Doubtfire
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband.
18) 19 girls and me
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
John Hercules is worried about being the only boy in his kindergarten class, but after the first week he stops worrying.
19) Jo's triumph
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Author
Series
Narroway trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Narroway Hunt is being hunted. Ottilie Colter is the first girl ever to join the secretive, boys-only Narroway Hunt - and with her trusty wingerslink by her side, she's determined that she won't be the last. The Hunt trains boys to fight ruthless monsters known as dredretches, but now it's under threat. Dredretches have invaded Fort Diory, and no-one is safe - especially not the girls who live there, but aren't allowed to fight. Ottilie must convince...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase or request to borrow from another library outside of the Yavapai Library Network via inter-library loan (ILL). Suggest a purchase or ILL