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When Mike discovers that his rough-and-tumble new puppy is a female, he tries to make her into a dainty dog.

Rosie Jones, one of the best eleven-year-old baseball players in the city thinks she has it made when she is named to the all-star team, but she quickly learns that not everyone is ready to accept the fact that girls have a right to play the game.

When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.

Nine-year-old Ned faces a lot of teasing when he decides to keep a Victorian doll that speaks only to him.

In Texas in 1886, Ellen finds her desire to be a cattle rancher discouraged by family members who do not think it a proper choice for a girl, but she proves her worth when drought threatens the ranch.

Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, and must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.

A young girl contemplates the many things she can be when she grows up, including a truck driver or President.