Girls Will Be Boys: More Gender Pretenders for Young Readers

Explore 'Girls Will Be Boys'—a curated list of books featuring gender-pretending characters for young readers. Perfect for kids who love stories about boys and girls defying norms!

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Riding freedom

 

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The Root Cellar

by Janet Lunn

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends …
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I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

by Diane Lee Wilson

In early 14-century China, Oyuna tells her granddaughter of her girlhood in Mongolia and how love for her horse enabled her to win an important …
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Nobody's Princess

by Esther Friesner

Helen of Sparta wants to be more than a princess and a pretty face—she wants to be a hero. The traditions of ancient Sparta would …
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Nobody's Prize

by Esther M. Friesner

Still longing for adventure, Princess Helen of Sparta maintains her disguise as a boy to join her unsuspecting brothers as part of the crew of …
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The Misadventures of Maude March

by Audrey Couloumbis

Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians for …
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Alphabet of Dreams

by Susan Fletcher

Mitra and her brother Babak are exiled royals living on the streets as orphaned beggars. Babak possesses a strange gift of being able to know …
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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

by Barbara Cohen

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot -- Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to …
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Sovay

by Celia Rees

In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon …
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Far Traveler

by Rebecca Tingle

When King Edward gives his niece Elfwyn two choices--marry one of his allies or become a nun--Wyn is at a loss to decide. Her strong, …
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Toliver's Secret

by Esther Wood Brady

When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic mission. Disguised as a boy, she manages to smuggle a message …
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Jackaroo

by Cynthia Voigt

"False, they were all of them false, the stories; as false as the stories of fairies dancing in moonlight glades on Midsummer Night." But they …
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Behind Rebel Lines

by Seymour Reit

Recounts the story of the Canadian woman who disguised herself as a man and slipped behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union army.
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The minstrel's tale

 

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Dove and Sword

by Nancy Garden

This is a story of the Hundred Years' War and its great heroine, Joan of Arc. When Joan sets out to lead an army against …
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