Dulcie, a talented soccer player, proves that girls are just as capable as boys when she's given the chance to play on the school team during a big game.
Sixteen-year-old Hild hates the perpetual fighting between men of her kingdom and others, but when she is sent to marry a neighboring king, supposedly to ensure peace, she must tap into her own abilities with the sword and choose between loyalty and honor.
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
In Iran, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.
Kyo works her way through each member of the boy's basketball team in her quest for a spot on the team, but the captain proves to be her greatest challenge.
Living under a strict code of conduct in an all-female community 500 years after the earth's destruction, a sensitive teenaged girl raised to be a hunter discovers forbidden relics from the Time Before.
In 1862, two young girls, one a member of an aid society that helps the wounded, and the other who, disguised as a boy, is a soldier in the Union army, find themselves working together at the battle of Antietam.
Unable to make friends at her new school, Rosie learns that one of Chicago's baseball teams has lost its top player and disguises herself as a boy to take his place.
In 1853, fourteen-year-old Matty runs away from the drudgery of farm life to join Mr. Spencer's famous penmanship school and finds she must meet many challenges to make her way as a female penman.
