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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
subjects: wrestling, sex role [X], schools, school stories [X], realistic fiction, cml, gender role

Virgie Goes To School With Us Boys

author: Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 190

Oh Boy, Amelia!

author: Moss, Marissa
Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills" and tries to figure out what it means that she likes shop class better than home economics.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: sex role [X], schools, sisters, school stories [X]

The Secret School

author: Avi
In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher at her one-room schoolhouse in a remote area of Colorado when it is unexpectedly closed.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 81
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540

The Playground Problem

author: Mcnamara, Margaret
When first-graders Nick, Jamie, and Reza refuse to let Emma join their soccer game just because she is a girl, Emma and her father devise a plan to teach the boys a lesson.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 170
subjects: sex role [X], schools, soccer, school stories [X]

Girls Don't Have Cooties

author: Krulik, Nancy E
Katie wants to go to Suzanne's sleepover party, but Jeremy wants her to ride the new roller coaster with him.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480

Zeke Meeks Vs. The Gruesome Girls

author: Green, D. L
Third-grader Zeke Meeks already has two sisters, so he is bitterly disappointed when his new neighbor proves to be a girl, but she might be able to change his mind and prove to him that boys and girls can play together.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500

Gender Blender

author: Nelson, Blake
When the students in health class at George Wilson Middle School are assigned girl/boy partners to discuss gender issues, no one could imagine that two students would actually switch bodies.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: middle schools, school stories [X], sex role [X], schools, gender role

The Miraculous Makeover Of Lizard Flanagan

author: Gorman, Carol
As she enters middle school, athletic twelve-year-old Lizard is dismayed to see her friends change into weird strangers and struggles with her own transition from tomboy to "girly-girl.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, schools, sex role [X], school stories [X], gender role

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: 2015
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 300

The Education Of Bet

author: Baratz-logsted, Lauren
Denied an education because of both her gender and background, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth cuts her hair and alters suits belonging to Will, her wealthy patron's grandnephew, to take his place at school while Will pursues a military career in nineteenth-century England.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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Who's A Clever Girl?

author: Impey, Rose
Jake Juggins and his pirate band decide they need a girl on board ship to do the chores while they are busy having daring adventures, but the girl they choose has other ideas.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sex role [X], pirates, schools, humorous stories, humorous fiction, school stories [X]

Who Let Girls In The Boys' Locker Room?

author: Moore, Elaine
When Michelle starts sixth grade at the local junior high school, she's elated to have a chance to play basketball on the boys' team until she finds out that the boys don't want girls on their team.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: basketball, sex role [X], schools, school stories [X]

Revolutionary Girl Utena

author: Saito, Chiho
Utena enlists the help of fellow classmate Anthy Himemiya to help her find the elusive prince who saved her life.
741.5
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: cartoons and comics, schools, comic books, strips, etc, school stories [X], sex role [X]

The Flip Side

author: Matthews, Andrew
Robert, a British fifteen-year-old, is confused when he plays the part of Rosalind while studying Shakespeare in school and discovers parts of his personality that he did not know existed.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: shakespeare, william, school stories [X], identity (psychology), sex role [X], england

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