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Publisher
Mandeville Press
Language
English
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"With sensitivity and clarity, this book addresses questions about the relationship between sex and spirituality. John-Roger deals with sex as a natural function of the body rather than something shameful, healing separation between the body and the soul."--
22) The extra point
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Description
After failing to make the soccer team, high school senior Riley joins the football team with her whole town's support but she needs to learn new skills quickly to succeed.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 streaming video (72 min.)
Language
English
Description
American culture bombards young men with sexist and misogynistic messages. In The Empathy Gap, he looks more closely at the ways these messages short-circuit men’s ability to empathize with women, respect them as equals, and take feminism seriously. Keith begins by exploring the main lessons about manhood that boys absorb from the culture – that they should be aggressive, acquire material wealth, suppress all emotion except anger, and sexually...
25) Madam President
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 3
Language
English
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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.
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
30) Seafire
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows Caledonia Styx, captain of her own ship, the Mors Navis, and its all-female crew as they strive to defeat the powerful fleet of Aric Athair, the vicious warlord who has taken their homes and families.
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pursuing her desire to be a knight, Alanna learns many things in her role as squire to Prince Jonathan, but fears Duke Roger, an ambitious sorcerer with whom she knows she will one day have to deal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holland Delviss, the only girl on the boys' high school hockey team, is forced to confront gender role expectations and her self-doubts when she is selected to be featured during HockeyFest and finds herself falling for her bossy team co-captain.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 video files, approximately 183 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood. In a sweeping analysis that cuts across racial, ethnic, and class lines, Katz examines mass shootings, day-to-day gun violence, violence against women,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
35) A girl named Dan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A's, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author's note on Title IX.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Explore the points where gender, race, class, ability, sexuality, and culture meet. Learn from author Jamia Wilson's lived experiences, read the statistics, and gain strength in quotes from feminist firebrands and activists. Along the way, respond to calls to action and form you own views on the 'F' word. This book is for everyone."--Back cover.
37) Lioness rampant
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the adventures of the skilled knight and warrior, Alanna, as she wins the magical Jewel of Domaine and uses its powers to save her kingdom.
39) Olga: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the modern age can provide, her life is irremediably changed....
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Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
I always knew my father was a pirate and I always knew I wanted to be one, too.' At age fifteen, Catherine's life is about to change. Her mother has just died and Catherine can't stand the thought of being sent to live with her aunt in Boston. She longs for a life of adventure. After she discovers her father's secret life as captain of the pirate ship Reprisal, her only thoughts are to join him on the high seas. Catherine imagines a life of sailing...
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