sex role

In the winter of 1208 while the dispute between the Pope and the Cathars intensifies, thirteen-year-old Lady Elinor, secretely in love with the troubadour Bertran de Miramont and determined to avoid her imminent marriage to an older man, runs away from her family's castle disguised as an apprentice troubadour, unaware of the dangers ahead as the Albigensian Crusade begins its onslaught on her native Languedoc.

In 1906, fifteen-year-old Theodora disguises herself as a boy to pursue her dream of becoming a race horse driver.

Fern, a teenager living in 4000 B.C., defies the expectations of her people by displaying a unique and new ability to tame horses and by also questioning many of the traditional activities of women.

The members of the California Dreams rock band decide to compete in a triathlon, but when Jenny and Tiffani learn that only the boys will compete, they form an all-girls team in a bid for equality.

In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.

Susanna Shakespeare yearns to travel to London like her father, to experience the world of actors and poets and to follow her own dream of singing, a path followed only by men.

Presents the author's first-hand account of her experiences transforming herself into a man for eighteen months, penetrating the social and cultural world of her male counterparts in disguise.

Two children with sex-role conscious parents debate whether to build a snowman or a snow woman and decide on both, with surprising results.

Jake Juggins and his pirate band decide they need a girl on board ship to do the chores while they are busy having daring adventures, but the girl they choose has other ideas.

As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.