Female Crossdressing in Young Adult Literature

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Bloody Jack

by Louis A. Meyer

Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British …
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Daughter of Venice

by Donna Jo Napoli

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave …
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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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Girl in Blue

by Ann Rinaldi

Determined to live her own life free of the controls of any man, Sara Louisa Wheelock disguises herself as a man and sets off from …
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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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An Avon True Romance: Samantha and the Cowboy

by Lorraine Heath

Samantha When she manages to get herself hired for the cattle drive, all of Samantha's prayers seem to be answered. The hundred dollars she'll earn …
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Alanna

by Tamora Pierce

From Tamora Pierce, the first book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award. “From now on I’m Alan …
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Pirates!

by Celia Rees

In 1722, after arriving in Jamaica where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together …
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The Breadwinner

by Deborah Ellis

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that …
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Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

“Erotic and absorbing…Written with startling power.”—The New York Times Book Review Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, …
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The Beacon at Alexandria

by Gillian Bradshaw

In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a …
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The Masqueraders

by Georgette Heyer

To help rescue a rich heiress, Prudence Tremaine masquerades as a man to hide her identity, which becomes rather inconvenient when she becomes enchanted with …
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Shield of Three Lions

by Pamela Kaufman

The first novel in the Alix of Wanthwaite series, by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman. Eleven-year-old Alix is the daughter of the baron of Wanthwaite, whose …
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