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1) Tomboy
Author
Series
Jane Benjamin novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1939. On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a scruffy, tomboy cub reporter. By night she secretly struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane's got a plan: she'll become the San Francisco Prospect's first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie.
Jane finagles her way to the women's championship at Wimbledon, starring her hometown's...
2) Tomboy
Author
Language
English
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Description
My brother's best friend didn't always annoy me, but lately he's been getting on my last nerve. Why can't he treat me the way all the other guys do? I never asked for his attention, but he says that he's been waiting for me to grow up.
4) 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
Language
English
Description
Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner. 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 tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels. Ivan writes movingly about many firsts: the first time they were mistaken for a boy; the first time...
Author
Language
English
Description
Experience a treasured summer through the eyes of a young girl who loved to fish, climb trees, and follow close behind her grandfather, or Papa, while growing up on Sand Mountain, a magical spot in the deep South. Meet a family rich in love and never at a loss to see the humor in everyday life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West.
In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new life as the bride of assayer George Backus. Together, the couple ventured forth to discover mining town life at the turn of the twentieth century, adjusting...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's viral New York Times op-ed, a heartfelt celebration of the tomboy phenomenon and its implications for girlhood explores its origins in a Victorian ideal and its role in shaping history, science, and culture. The author explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women - and those who identify otherwise - who stomp all over archaic gender norms....
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Language
English
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Description
Macy Anderson is a seventeen-year-old tomboy and captain of her school's soccer team. Sam Cahill is a rich bad boy with a British accent and cocky attitude. Macy tells herself she won't fall for his charm. But as the two get to know each other, and Macy starts uncovering Sam's secrets, she begins to realise keeping that promise to herself is going to be harder than she thought . . .
11) Tomboy
Author
Publisher
Paw Tracks
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
With Tomboy, Panda Bear steps away from the sample-based parameters of his previous work and incorporates more guitar and synthesizer. Still prevalent, though, is the interest in texture that made Person Pitch such a dense record. The album, massive in its span of emotion, genre, and sound, is the welcome return of one of the most prolific and consistent audio pioneers in recent memory.
12) Texas Tomboy
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Series
Language
English
Description
The entire ranch is thirsty-will the rains ever come? Tomboy Charlie loves the ranch and the outdoors, especially now that she has a horse of her own and can ride like a true cowboy. She doesn't understand why her mother keeps after her to help out in the house, too. But ranch life is hard, especially when there's a drought. There isn't enough water for the crops or cattle, and horrible dust storms sweep away the soil. If it doesn't rain soon, her...
13) Peeping Tomboy
Author
Language
English
Description
Six weeks, and everything was as fresh in her mind as ever. But it'd transformed somewhat. It was no longer about hiding from Kirsten or even righting a wrong. This was about her heart.
Savannah Sutherland never thought spying on people could hurt anyone. After all, she never tells what she sees. So what's a little harmless fun?
But when her nosiness backfires, handsome, football jock, Boston Pitt, steps in to warn her. She's about to make a big...
Author
Language
English
Description
You will enjoy meeting Souchy the Tomboy!
She loves her male friends, and she enjoys
playing and hanging out with them as well
as her three older brothers. She likes the
roughness of sports, male clothes, and male
shoes. She really hates dresses and has made
sure her mother knows just how much she
hates them! But she is still a girl, and she
loves her jewelry and painted nails!
Her father doesn't like her playing with or
hanging...
15) Ode to a Tomboy
Author
Language
English
Description
Why do we label some girls princesses and others tomboys? This snappy rhyming and beautifully simple illustrated story explores what it predominately meant for a little girl to be called a tomboy. It challenges the stereotype in a fun way and reassures children you don't and shouldn't have to tick certain boxes to fall into a label. This book will give reassurance to young girls who might be labeled a tomboy already that it's ok to enjoy and explore...
Author
Publisher
Little A/Topple Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home."--Publisher's description.
"A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home. Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the...
Author
Series
Bulging Brides volume 10
Language
English
Description
Too much bonding over beer and pizza has left tomboy Tanya unable to zip up her wedding dress.
20) Tomboy trouble
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When Georgia, an eight-year-old girl, cuts her hair very short and plays baseball the children in her new school ask her if she's a boy.
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