Theme: Sex role

How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Serpot, ruler of a land where women live free, without men, leads her Amazon warriors in battle against Prince Pedikhons of Egypt, who has come to see for himself if women can equal men, even in battle. Includes notes about Assyrian and Egyptian culture and hieroglyphics.

Descriptors: Africa, Egypt, Fantasy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Syria » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Daughter of Xanadu

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin’s determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the [...]

Descriptors: Asia, China, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl’s Adventure upon the High Seas

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Artemesia is the daughter of a pirate queen, and she’s sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping from the school, she hunts up her mother’s crew and breezily commands them out to sea in a leaky boat. Unfortunately, Art’s memories of her early life may not be accurate-her seasick crew [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Anna of Byzantium

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Anna Comnena has every reason to feel entitled. She’s a princess, her father’s firstborn and his chosen successor. Someday she expects to sit on the throne and rule the vast Byzantine Empire. So the birth of a baby brother doesn’t perturb her. Nor do the “barbarians” from foreign lands, who think only a son should [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Ties that Bind, Ties that Break

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing she [...]

Descriptors: China, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Moneylender’s Daughter

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now sixteen years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family’s fortune, while fourteen-year-old Jade Van Helson struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father’s decree that she marry a wealthy, eldery Englishman.

Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed

Rickshaw Girl

By auraenid | Published: June 11, 2007

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy or disguise herself as one. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia surrounded by India.

Descriptors: Asia, Bangladesh, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , » Comments closed

The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told that is something only men can do.

Descriptors: Africa, Ethiopia, Fiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed