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Donning a red cape, just like the boys wear, little Luc?a tackles the playground like a daredevil. However, the boys tell her girls can't be superheroes, and refuse to play with Luc?a. Feeling sad, Luc?a speaks with her grandmother, Abuela, who tells Luc?a a secret--she comes from a family of luchadoras, bold women from the Mexican lucha libre tradition! This time Luc?a dons a white cape and silver lucha mask, and sparks a luchadora sensation on the playground!.

Examines the roles of gender in the modern United States.

Posing as one of Robin Hood's thieves to avoid the wrath of the evil thief Taker Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her female identity secret from all of Nottinghamshire.

Elmer the duck is teased because he is different, but he proves himself by not only surviving the winter, but also saving his Papa.

Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.

"Chinese Amazon warrior Shampoo hasn't given up on Ranma yet--only instead of killing him, now she wants to marry him! There are just a few obstacles in the way of their future happiness, though, including a childhood phobia of Ranma's and Shampoo's suitor, Mousse, martial arts master of hidden weapons. Can Ranma escape Shampoo's soap opera? Or a better question might be, does he even want to?"--Back cover.

The girl that was picked to become Ranma's bride doesn't seem to like him because he keeps getting into fights and changes into a girl whenever he comes into contact with water.

When Danny Tozer witnesses the death of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero, she inherits his powers. Suddenly the transgender youth finds herself in the body she always thought she should have--that of a girl. It should be the happiest time of her life, but the first week in her new body is complicated: her father is obsessed with "curing" her girlhood, her best friend suddenly wants to date her, and her fellow superheroes are arguing over her place in their ranks. She's in over her head, but she doesn't have time to adjust. Dreadnought's murderer, a cyborg named Utopia, is threatening the destruction of humanity. Danny must find a way to sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time.

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.

In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys' game.".