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1. Girls with guts!: the road to breaking barriers & bashing records

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Author:
Gonzales, Debbie
Publisher:
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
870L
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English
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East Hampton Juvenile Nonfiction
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Nonfiction picture book of the history of women's participation in sports around the world. Briefly explains the legal battle to pass Title IX for women's equality and ongoing challenges to equal treatment for girls.

2. Girls with Guts

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Author:
Gonzales, Debbie
Publisher:
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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No chasing! No stretching or straining! And never, ever sweat. These were the rules girls were forced to play by until Title IX passed in 1972. And it was a game-changer. A celebration of the strength, endurance, and athleticism of women and girls throughout the ages, Girls With Guts! keeps score with examples of women athletes from the late 1800s up through the 1970s, sharing how women refused to take no for an answer, and how finally, they pushed...

3. The Diary of Amos Lee: Girls, Guts and Glory!

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Author:
Foo, Adeline
Publisher:
Storyside
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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I write my diary in the toilet to get away from my troubles, like having to compete with Michael, the bully who's in the swim team with me, and falling out with my best friend, Alvin, over a girl! My diary goes wherever I go as there are those who want to read it. For I know secrets, like how to break my sister's curse and how babies are made… © 2009 by Adeline Foo. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside...

4. Smile

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Author:
Telgemeier, Raina
Series:
[Smile volume 1
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GN: Graphic Novel 410L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...

5. Ghosts: A Graphic Novel

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Author:
Telgemeier, Raina
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GN: Graphic Novel 300L
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English
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4.4 stars
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From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Drama, and Sisters! Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets...

6. The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
First Avenue Classics
Greenwich House classics library
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...

7. The Paris daughter

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Author:
Harmel, Kristin
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English
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"Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war,...

8. Justice: a Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novel

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Author:
Kellerman, Faye
Series:
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus volume 8
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English
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5 stars
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The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold "killer eyes" cannot soothe Decker's inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes much deeper and higher than anyone expects and that true justice, brutal and complete, has yet to be done....

9. Lone wolf

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Author:
Hurwitz, Gregg
Series:
Orphan X novel volume 9
Language:
English
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3 stars
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"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...

10. Endangered: Joe Pickett novel

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Author:
Box, C. J.
Series:
Joe Pickett novel volume 15
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more-Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway-alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force...

11. Claire of the sea light

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Author:
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"The interconnected secrets of a coastal Haitian town are revealed when one little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, goes missing"--

12. Look for me: a novel

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Author:
Gardner, Lisa
Series:
Detective D.D. Warren novel volume 9
Detective D.D. Warren
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English
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3.3 stars
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"In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner's latest twisty thrill ride, Detective D. D. Warren and Find Her's Flora Dane return in a race against the clock to either save a young girl's life. or bring her to justice. The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one--a sixteen-year-old girl--missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren...

13. Gone again

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Author:
Grippando, James, 1958-
Series:
Jack Swyteck volume 12
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English
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"Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager’s disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi’s clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle’s execution, Sashi’s mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking...

14. Living with Viola

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Author:
Fung, Rosena
Publisher:
Annick Press
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HL: High-Low 310L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Heartbreakingly honest and quietly funny, this graphic novel from a debut creator is a refreshingly real exploration of mental health, cultural differences, and the trials of middle school.

Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school—and then there's Viola. Viola is Livy's anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to push back against Viola's relentless

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15. Choose me

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Author:
Gerritsen, Tess
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English
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"Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene ... she knows in her gut there's more to the story ... To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections to, including Jack. And now that she's dead,...

16. In my hands: memories of a Holocaust rescuer

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Author:
Opdyke, Irene Gut, 1922-2003
Lexile measure:
890L
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English
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Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

17. Endangered

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Author:
Box, C. J.
Series:
Joe Pickett volume 15
Language:
English
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"She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more--Joe's eighteen-year-old daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway--alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors don't know if she'll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it--says...

18. Hollow Girl

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Author:
Cooper, Luke
Publisher:
Markosia Enterprises Ltd
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English
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The original Hollow Girl is back, and this time it's more than just a name. With Hollow Girl soulless and catatonic, Hannah - the vigilante's former sidekick - finds herself a carer rather than a fellow crimefighter, ironically so considering her recent past. And when the time finally comes to get to work, Hannah is sidelined - apparently surplus to requirements. But while Hollow Girl is out protecting a computer hacker from an army of gun-toting...

19. Honor girl

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Author:
Thrash, Maggie
Series:
Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee 2018
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 400L
Language:
English
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YA GN THR
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"Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for...

20. Sadie

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Author:
Summers, Courtney
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 750L
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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When popular radio personality West McCray receives a desperate phone call from a stranger imploring him to find nineteen-year-old runaway Sadie Hunter, he's not convinced there's a story there; girls go missing all the time. But when it's revealed that Sadie fled home after the brutal murder of her little sister, Mattie, West travels to the small town of Cold Creek, Colorado, to uncover what happened. Sadie has no idea that her journey to avenge...
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