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Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

A play about the tempestuous courtship between Katharina and Petruchio, who sets out to calm Katharina's temper and gain her dowry.

Contains essays that provide information about the roles of women in twelve ancient civilizations around the world, discussing women's religious, political, public, economic, and domestic activities, their legal status, and their artistic endeavors.

Sixteen-year-old Hermine Jahns relates to her experiences traveling on the first cross-country automobile trip with a woman driver in 1909.

When her older brother and his friends won't let her play on their baseball team, Emma comes up with a plan to convince them to change their minds.

Although Eddie appears to be a tough kid, he also plays with a dollhouse, a secret he feels he cannot reveal even to his closest friends.

A clever but male chauvinist fox finally trades places with his wife so his family won't starve.

Based on the life of Induk Pahk, a Korean educator, whose widowed mother disguised her as a boy at the age of eight in order for her to attend school, a choice forbidden to girls in the early twentieth century in that country.

In 1888, a few months after barely surviving a deadly blizzard that has killed two of her brothers, fifteen-year-old Hannah goes to work at the home of a wealthy widow whose progressive social ideas scandalize the town of Prairie Hill, Nebraska.