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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
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Series
Language
English
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"Opposites don't just attract in the West--they sizzle--and Wyoming has never been hotter than in the latest sexy Blacktop Cowboys novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hang Tough. Growing up with three older brothers, Larissa "Riss" Thorpe defines the term tomboy--a moniker that never mattered to her until she crossed paths with sexy cowboy playboy, Ike Palmer. His declaration that he prefers his women soft and feminine is the one benefit...
3) Tomboy
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
Laure is 10 years old and a tomboy. On arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Summer becomes a big playground and Laure pretends to be "Mikael", a boy like the others, different enough to get the attention of Lisa, who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner
Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their
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Series
New Directions paperbook ; 153
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl.
Author
Publisher
Spencer Hill Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Tomboy to the core, Toni Valentine understands guys. She'll take horror movies, monster hunts and burping contests over manicures. So Toni is horrified when she's sent to the Winston Academy for Girls, where she has to wear a skirt and learn to be a "lady" while the guys move on without her. Then Toni meets Emma Elizabeth, a girl at school with boy troubles, and she volunteers one of her friends as a pretend date. Word spreads of Toni's connections...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
Español
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Description
"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy . . . like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much . . . like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her....
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Starting with the figure of a bold, boisterous girl in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with the 'girl power' movement of the 1990s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of 'tomboy' has undergone in the United States. Tomboys also explores the gender and sexual...
10) Wild Lily
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1921 Lily Gabriel is thirteen, motherless, and runs wild on Lockwood estate where her father is the gardener; Antony Sylvester is seventeen, motherless, and the spoiled son of the rich businessman who owns the estate; so when her friendship for Anthony suddenly turns into an impossible love there is bound to be heartbreak in the future--even before the airplane Antony got for his birthday leads to a disaster that will throw a shadow over both...
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Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tomo is shocked when she finds out that her best friend Misuzu used to go out with Tomo's crush, Jun! Misuzu swears that it's all ancient history, and to prove it she's going to help tomboy Tomo get all glammed up for her first date with Jun! Tomo is super nervous, but does Jun even realize that it's a date...?"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tomo and Jun have been best buds since they were little kids, but now that they're in high school, Tomo wants to be more than friends...too bad Jun just sees her as 'one of the guys.' Tomo may be a tomboy, but she's determined to prove to Jun that she's a woman, too!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Archie Comics Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For most of her life Li'l Jinx has been a bit of a tomboy and life was easy to understand. Now that she's in high school, a 'more mature' Jinx Holliday is discovering that growing up is a lot more complicated. Jinx deals with the stuff that we all encounter when we reach high school.
