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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1976, Ivy must choose between participating in a gymnastics tournament and attending a family reunion.
Ivy Ling loves gymnastics and now she finds out that the Ling family reunion is the same day as the all-city gymnastics tournament. Ivy has a hard decision to make.
2) Red shoes
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who will enjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
3) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world escalates, Mare, who has the red blood of the common folk but also the silver ability to control lightning, must fight against the darkrness that has grown in her soul.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hana has a humongous collection of hijabs and accessories - and her hijab is always styled superbly. But when her overflowing collection gets a little out of hand, Hana knows something needs to be done...and comes up with a clever plan for sharing her talents and possessions with her community! Young makers will chuckle along with this humorous tale of creative problem-solving and learning to help others.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Banned Book Week
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Jewish Heritage Month - Juvenile/Middle Grade
TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Jewish Heritage Month - Juvenile/Middle Grade
TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
Formats
Description
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Emma's younger brother Jake has tonsilitis and makes life difficult for Emma, while the Cupcake Club girls are spoiling him with cupcakes and little gifts.
10) Delicates
Author
Language
English
Description
"Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as a freak who sees...
12) Wolf in the snow
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When a girl who is lost in a snowstorm meets a wolf cub who is also alone and scared, she helps him, even though she too is far from home. How the cub's family repays her will leave readers of all ages appreciating the power of kindness and the warmth of home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Spring Family Story Time Books
Princesses/Princes - Picture Books
Staff Recommends- Picture Books
Princesses/Princes - Picture Books
Staff Recommends- Picture Books
Description
Rhyming text affirms that girls can pursue their many interests, from playing sports to planting flowers in the dirt, without giving up their tiaras.
15) Pua and Heihei
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Can Pua the pig stop Heihei the rooster from causing trouble for Moana at the island feast?"--Back cover.
16) Blueberry girl
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text expresses a prayer for a girl to be protected from such dangers as nightmares at age three or false friends at fifteen, and to be granted clearness of sight and other favors.
17) Mei's wild ride
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she poofs into a giant red panda!
18) Never ever
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follow a little girl and her stuffed rabbit as she wanders through a meadow complaining that nothing exciting happens to her, until it does.
19) Beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Every girl is unique, talented and lovable...Every girl is beautiful"--Book jacket.
20) The city girls
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A troupe of adorable girls explore the city and take in all the diversity of life it has to offer!
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