sexism

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sexism

Rules for being a girl

"A girl . . . fights to expose sexism at her school after a run-in with a predatory teacher"--Amazon.com.

The league of super feminists

In graphic novel format looks at feminism and media literacy.

Amelia Westlake was never here

Harriet Price, a prefect at elite Rosemead Grammar, risks her perfect life by joining forces with bad-girl Will Everhart in a hoax to expose the school's many problems.

Girl gets real

a teenager's guide to life
Danielle Fishel gives advice to girls based on her own experiences.
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The Aurora County All-Stars

Twelve-year-old House Jackson, team captain and star pitcher of the Aurora County All-Stars, is finally ready to play again after being sidelined for a year with a broken elbow, but a standoff ensues when the team's big game is scheduled for the same day as Aurora County's two-hundredth anniversary pageant--an event directed by the very girl who caused Jackson's injury.
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The Aurora County All-Stars

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.

Emmy in the key of code

2019
Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.
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#WomensMarch

insisting on equality
2020
"In this title, readers learn about the #WomensMarch, movement from the campaign for women's suffrage, to legislation safeguarding reproductive rights and protecting them from sexual harassment, to the 2017 and 2018 Women's Marches and the continued fight for gender equality and social justice. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
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100 times

a memoir of sexism
2019
"An . . . account of one hundred experiences of sexism, harassment, discrimination and assault . . . Here are Woods' personal stories of 100 times she suffered or was witness to a sexually charged experience--from gender-based discrimination in work places, to unsolicited groping from strangers in public, to sexual assault--beginning from the time she was five years old to the present"--Publisher.
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Grace for president

When Grace discovers that there has never been a female U.S. president, she decides to run for school president.

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