Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.

Annoyed that Sister Bear always beats them at baseball and other "boy" type activities, her brother and the other male cubs try to exclude her from their new club.

A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were President of the United States.

"Amber Bryant and Tyler Hicks have been best friends since they were teenagers--trusting and depending on each other through some of the darkest periods of their young lives. And while Amber has always felt that their relationship is strictly platonic, Tyler has long harbored the secret desire that they might one day become more than friends. Returning home for the summer after her college graduation, Amber begins spending more time with Tyler than...

An out-of-work actor makes himself up as a woman in order to land a role in a popular soap opera.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest. As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...

Indiana farmer denies daughter education and land which he gives to sons on reaching maturity.

Katie is an ordinary third-grader - except for one very extraordinary problem...she accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself and learned that wishes really do come true, and in the strangest ways!

In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.

Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew." Kate Battista runs the house for her father and younger sister Bunny; her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. When her father's lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported just as they are on the verge of a breakthrough, Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that relys on Kate to help him....