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When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with...
3) Just Ella
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Palace chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
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Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
6) First test
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Protector of the small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight. When Alanna became the King's Champion, it was decided that girls would henceforth be allowed to train for the knighthood. But ten years have passed, and no girls have come forward. Now, however, someone is about to change all that. Her name is Kel. In this first book in a new...
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Dragon Slayers' Academy volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
While Headmaster Mordred is trying to impress a new student, who he believes to be the first female at Dragon Slayers' Academy, the ghost of one of the school's founders besieges the halls seeking his stolen gold.
9) Squire
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Protector of the small volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After becoming a squire to Lord Raoul, commander of the King's Own, Kel of Mindelan, must face a terrifying test in the Chamber of the Ordeal before she can be a knight.
10) Rickshaw girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
12) The grace year
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
13) Fever Crumb
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
15) Chu Ju's house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again. One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition...
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Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.
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Sisters of the Sword volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.
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