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Marvin Redpost

author: Sachar, Louis
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 300
subjects: sex role [X], identity, schools, individuality

Our Only May Amelia

author: Holm, Jennifer L
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 85
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900

Hour Of The Olympics

author: Osborne, Mary Pope
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.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 298
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380

Bella At Midnight

author: Stanley, Diane
Bella's peasant life is changed when her real father, a knight who abandoned her when she was a baby, comes and reclaims her, moving her to his home where she lives with a resentful stepmother and two horrible stepsisters and learns about a plot to kill her friend, Prince Julian.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950

Oliver Button Is A Sissy

author: Depaola, Tomie
His classmates' taunts do not stop Oliver Button from doing what he likes best.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480
subjects: dancing, sex role [X], dance, gender role

Ruby's Wish

author: Bridges, Shirin Yim, Shirin Yim Bridges, Bridges, Shrin Yin
In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 91
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

Players In Pigtails

author: Corey, Shana
Katie Casey was baseball mad. Had the fever and had it bad. A story that celebrates a brave girl's love of the game as she works to become a player in the first-ever All-American Girls Professional Baseball league.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 69
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 350
subjects: baseball, sex role [X], historical fiction

Alanna

author: Pierce, Tamora
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, a learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

Just Ella

author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
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.
398.2
year: 2015
copies: 83
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 850

Madam President

author: Smith, Lane
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 230
subjects: presidents, sex role [X], humorous stories

There's A Girl In My Hammerlock

author: Spinelli, Jerry
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520

Punxsutawney Phyllis

author: Hill, Susanna Leonard
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.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: woodchuck, groundhog day, sex role [X]

Land Of Dreams

author: Nixon, Joan Lowery
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Knitwits

author: Taylor, William
Nine-year-old Charlie Kenny's life becomes chaotic when he gets himself into a bet that he can knit something for the baby his mother is expecting.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family life, sex role [X], pregnancy, knitting, schools

Sam Johnson And The Blue Ribbon Quilt

author: Ernst, Lisa Campbell
While mending the awning over the pig pen, Sam discovers that he enjoys sewing the various patches together but meets with scorn and ridicule when he asks his wife if he could join her quilting club.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: quilting, sex role [X]

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