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The Underground Girls of Kabul is one of the 850's targeted books in a watch list sent public-school libraries by Matt Krause, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, as prone to generate "discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of [a student’s] race or sex".
An old hag directs the princess to a castle where she can find work as a lamb-girl. The princess dons her three dresses to attend a meeting between the king and a lord. Later, the princess loses her shoe; the king summons every maiden to try on the shoe. The birds indicate the crow-cloaked girl is the true owner of the shoe, and she becomes his ...
Mary and Molly were cousins who grew up together in the mountains of Southwest Virginia on a typical farm, small and rural. [1] The girls learned how to ride horses and hunt for food, and through working on the farm and helping provide for their family, became accustomed to the hard work and dedication that would be required of them in the military.
The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family during the Third Afghan Civil War. For her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her ...
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man is a 2006 book by journalist Norah Vincent, recounting an 18-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a man and then integrated into traditionally male-only venues, such as a bowling league and a monastery. She described this as "a human project" about learning.
The Sunshine Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with a book by Paul A. Rubens and Cecil Raleigh, lyrics and music by Rubens and additional lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. The story involves a working girl who falls in love with the heir to the factory.
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While attending the Saint Chapel School for Girls (in Cutie Honey Flash, the school is co-ed instead of being an all-girls school), Honey seeks revenge against the Panther Claw organization, which is ruled by an ancient primordial evil known as Panther Zora and her younger sibling Sister Jill.