gender role

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

Wanting very much to learn to play the drums, Sam struggles to afford a drum kit and tells lies in her determination while navigating the complications of school budget cuts and her parents' frequent arguments.

In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project.

Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.

"Seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. She finally acts on a passion she has kept secret for years: mastering the violin"--Dust jacket flap.

A fictionalized account of the sixteen-year-old girl, trained to handle a musket, who rode alone over forty miles in New York to bring out the militia before the Battle of Ridgefield.

Examines the history of transgenderism in the United States from the years immediately following World War II and the first transsexual and transvestite communities, up through the radicalism of the sixties and seventies, and into the developments of gender issues in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Follows Wonnie, a thirteen-year-old girl, who just came out as a lesbian and struggles to deal with issues with her girlfriend, Rebecca, who wants to settle down and get married.

Tom's secret relationship with Sean, the most popular guy at school, saves him from the cruelty of his mother and the indifference of his father. But when everything falls apart, Tom must face his inner demons alone.

Mikala's grandparents are against her lesbianism, and she is forced to lie to them. However, Mikala's life changes forever after visiting New York City with her best friend.