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41) Seafire
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Seafire trilogy volume 1
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374 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, whose lives have been turned upside down by Aric and his men. The crew has one misson: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet. But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command...
42) Firehorse
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325 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
46) Full cicada moon
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English
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In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
47) The Lie Tree
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English
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On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal. She discovers a tree that bears fruit only when she whispers...
48) Dragon dreams
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102 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Attending her first year at the Royal Princess Academy, Emma prefers soccer to ballroom dancing and dreams of one day riding a dragon.
49) Screen queens
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355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Lucy Katz, Maddie Li, and Delia Meyer team up to compete in ValleyStart, a prestigious high school tech incubator competition for a dream internship in the male-dominated world of tech.
50) Mary's penny
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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A farmer learns that the best man for the job of farm manager is a girl, as his clever daughter bests his brawny sons in a competition.
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187 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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English
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In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
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237 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."
A modern retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind and who is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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English
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Although she can predict the weather much better than the boys in her family, no one thinks that Phyllis the groundhog has a chance of replacing the aging Punxsutawney Phil when Groundhog Day's official groundhog retires.
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125 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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In 399 B.C. in Athens, thirteen-year-old Pandora dreads her upcoming marriage to a man twice her age, but a chance meeting with the philosopher Socrates encourages her to question traditional female roles and to seek her own truth.
55) Joy in Mudville
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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The day after Mighty Casey's strikeout, the Mudville Nine are in a crucial game when a relief pitcher -- a girl -- is sent in and quickly proves herself to the crowd using moves from football, tennis, and soccer.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
Description
Nine-year-old Lizzie writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas during wartime, and includes maps that show her mother what Lizzie has been thinking and doing. Includes nonfiction tips for helping children of military families.
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Ellie engineer volume 2
Physical Desc
165 pages, 15 unnumberd pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ellie and her friends help elderly Mrs. Curran around the house, Ellie cannot resist using her engineering prowess but it is no fun for the girls when Toby gets the credit.
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