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1. Difficult girls

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Author:
Bane, Veronica
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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2. Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls

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State University of New York Press
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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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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Author:
Emerson, Lila
Publisher:
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
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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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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4.1 stars
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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-
Series:
Beartown
Lexile measure:
840L
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English
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4.3 stars
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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, 1943-2025
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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. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
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Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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4.8 stars
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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.

10. Canary girls: a novel

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Author:
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...

11. The new girl

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Author:
Calin, Cassandra, 1994-
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 210L
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with this funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel about change. Goodbye, old Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania -- the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first period. As if things weren't difficult enough! Now Lia is thrust...

12. Tell me what you did: a novel

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Author:
Wilson, Carter (Novelist)
Series:
Thorndike Press large print thriller adventure and suspense
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English
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4 stars
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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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English
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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
Lexile measure:
910L
Language:
English
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3 stars
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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
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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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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Author:
Paris, B. A.
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English
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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. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Series:
Dover thrift editions
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Jake Urry Classics Collection
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Lexile measure:
1060L
Language:
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...

19. When the stars go dark: a novel

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Author:
McLain, Paula
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English
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3 stars
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna,...

20. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Author:
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923
Series:
Riverside bookshelf
Books of wonder
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm volume 1
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Lexile measure:
1190L
Language:
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.
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