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161) Tarnish
Author
Series
Royal circle volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013
Physical Desc
442 p. cm
Language
English
Description
"King Henry VIII's interest in Anne Boleyn could give her an opportunity to make a real impact in a world with few choices for women, but when poet Thomas Wyatt reveals he's fallen for her, Anne must choose between true love and the chance to make history"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 91 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
164) Counting sheep
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rural Texas in 1901, thirteen-year-old Callie nurses a butterfly with a broken wing and delivers a baby lamb, despite her mother's disapproval of Callie's "unladylike behavior."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
Author
Series
HMRC volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 508 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistable" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven--and their world--from tearing apart forever. Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty's Royal Coven prepares to crown her High Preistess. Suffering from amnesia,...
167) The breadwinner
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
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