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  2. Story of a Girl (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Story of a Girl is a 2007 young-adult novel by Sara Zarr. The story follows Deanna Lambert, a 16-year-old girl from Pacifica in the San Francisco Bay Area who struggles with slut shaming, gossip, and sexuality. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was adapted into a Lifetime movie also titled Story of a Girl in 2017.

  3. The New Mother - Wikipedia

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    The story was rewritten by Alvin Schwartz as "The Drum" for More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark in 1984, the second installment of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.In Schwartz's version, the sisters (renamed Delores and Sandra) attempt to obtain a drum that contains a dancing mechanical man and woman from a gypsy girl.

  4. In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories - Wikipedia

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    The third story in the book, "The Green Ribbon", follows a girl named Jenny. She always wears a green ribbon around her neck and meets a boy named Alfred. She refuses to reveal to Alfred why she wears the ribbon, despite his pleading, and even when the two are wed, she wears the ribbon every day.

  5. The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.

  6. A Girl's Story - Wikipedia

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    A Girl's Story" is a short story within Toni Cade Bambara's short story collection, The Seabirds are Still Alive. This collection was originally published in 1977 by Random House . Bambara writes about strong female girls in this particular collection because "in her vision, in her politics, little girls matter". [ 1 ]

  7. The babysitter and the man upstairs - Wikipedia

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    The legend details a teenage girl who is watching television at night while babysitting after the children have been put to bed upstairs. The phone rings; the unknown caller tells her to "check the children". The girl dismisses the call, but the anonymous caller dials back several times, and the girl becomes increasingly frightened.

  8. The Story Girl - Wikipedia

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    The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 1917, Montgomery opined that The Story Girl was her favorite of the novels she had written by that time. [2]

  9. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl - Wikipedia

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    In Korea, the story focuses on Jiknyeo, a weaver girl who falls in love with Gyeonwoo, a herder. In Japan, the story revolves around the romance between the deities, Orihime and Hikoboshi. In Vietnam, the story is known as Ngưu Lang Chức Nữ and revolves around the story of Chức Nữ, the weaver, and Ngưu Lang, the herder of buffalos.