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1. Difficult girls

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Bane, Veronica
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2. Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls

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State University of New York Press
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2015
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Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies. Presenting cutting-edge research from transnational scholars and activists, Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls introduces original methodologies and girl-centered program design to the field of girls' studies. The editors pair progressive girls' studies research on topics such as differential privilege, voice, cultural values, and access to material resources, with provocative...

3. Life Skills for Teenage Girls: A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Difficult Choices, Conquering Pee

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Emerson, Lila
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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The perfect gift to help the teen girl in your life thrive through the ups and downs of growing up! In today's fast-paced world, the teen girl in your life faces a unique set of challenges-peer pressure, emotional ups and downs, and a long list of responsibilities. "Life Skills for Teenage Girls" steps in as a trustworthy guide, offering practical advice and essential skills for navigating these tricky years with confidence and grace. This comprehensive...

4. Difficult Girl

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Author:
Twomey, Mary E.
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Mary E. Twomey LLC
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2023
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Storming the castle seemed like a good idea at the time… When the only way to liberate the medicine for the masses is to break into the castle, Zara knows the odds are stacked against them. Even with Connery and Bodhi by her side, there is precious little hope that she will be able to get in and out of the guarded grounds unscathed. Between slippery moat monsters and troublesome treasures, the right thing to do isn't always clear. Going with her...

5. The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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Author:
Haidt, Jonathan
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health - and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

6. The great alone

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
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HL: High-Low 720L
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English
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...

7. Beartown: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
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Beartown
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840L
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...

8. News of the world: a novel

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Author:
Jiles, Paulette, 1943-
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English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...

9. Canary girls: a novel

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Chiaverini, Jennifer
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English
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...

10. Giant days

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Allison, John, 1976-
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English
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"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther,...

11. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
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Oxford world's classics
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840L
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English
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This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

12. Tell me what you did: a novel

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Wilson, Carter (Novelist)
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"Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they've committed to her audience. She can't guarantee the police won't come after her 'guests,' but her show grants simultaneous anonymity and instant fame--a potent combination that's proven difficult to resist. After an episode recording, Poe usually erases both criminal and crime from her mind. But when a strange and oddly familiar man appears on her...

13. The marriage of opposites: a novel

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Hoffman, Alice
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism"--

14. Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II

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Author:
Mundy, Liza, 1960-
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English
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The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II—a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While...

15. Pigs in heaven

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Series:
Greer Family volume 2
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910L
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English
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When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...

16. Girl in translation

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Author:
Kwok, Jean
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840L
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Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly begins a double life as a schoolgirl by day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by her first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.

17. Behind closed doors

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Paris, B. A.
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The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How...

18. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Author:
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923
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Riverside bookshelf
Books of wonder
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm volume 1
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1190L
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English
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When ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, her aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives.

19. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
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Dover thrift editions
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Lexile measure:
1060L
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English
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4 stars
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Dr. Jekyll is a kind and generous professional of the highest rank, and yet within him is a malevolent soul who desires the freedom to pursue his most barbarous conceits without consequence. This is not only the story of good and evil but of the hypocrisy through which one denies the other. Dr. Jekyll has developed a chemical potion which allows a separation to occur between the two natures present in everyone. By isolating the dichotomous qualities...

20. The old curiosity shop

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Everyman's library volume 209
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English
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First published as a weekly serial from 1840 to 1841, "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens is a novel that details the life of a beautiful young orphaned girl named Nell Trent. As the story begins, she lives with her loving grandfather in his London curiosity shop, happy, but lonely with only Kit, a kind and honest boy employed in the shop, for a friend. Their fortunes take a turn for the worse when her grandfather loses badly at his secret...
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