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I am small / by Leng, Qin.;
With beautifully composed watercolor illustrations, Qin Leng recalls her own childhood in this story about a little girl who has always been the smallest: smallest of the family, smallest in school, smallest in a crowd. The girl faces her own set of challenges, but her loving parents and an unexpected visitor might change her perception for good.LSC
Subjects: Stature; Families; Schools;

The Beguiled [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Eastwood, Clint; Page, Geraldine; Hartman, Elizabeth;
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman.Director, Donald Siegel.Blu-ray.CHVRS rating: 14A.A tense psychological drama about love and betrayal set at the height of the Civil War. An injured Yankee soldier John McBurney is rescued by a young girl who offers him refuge at her all-girl boarding school in the south. He charms the teachers and students as they nurse him back to health, but his lustful manipulations cause them to spiral into jealous and vengeful rages against him. Feeling trapped, John realizes that his benefactress cannot be trusted, with his love or with his life!
Subjects: Drama.; Drama.; Suspense / Thriller.;
© 2015., Universal Studios Canada Inc.,

The Perfect Son [electronic resource] : by McFadden, Freida.aut; Althens, Suzie.nrt; May, Daniel Thomas.nrt; cloudLibrary;
"Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night . . . " Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst—murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth—Liam may have done the unthinkable. Now she must ask herself: How far will she go to protect her son?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological; Suspense;
© 2022., Tantor Audio,

Wayward girls : a novel / by Wiggs, Susan,author.;
"From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming novel based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption when six girls come together in a Catholic reform school in 1960s Buffalo, NY. Perfect for fans of Before We Were Yours, Orphan Train, and The Berry Pickers"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Friendship; Redemption; Reformatories; Survival; Young women;

Bottoms [videorecording] / by Cruz, Ruby,actor.; Dominczyk, Dagmara,1976-actor.; Edebiri, Ayo,1995-actor.; Galitzine, Nicholas,actor.; Gerber, Kaia,2001-actor.; Liu, Havana Rose,1997-actor.; Lynch, Marshawn,1986-actor.; Seligman, Emma,film director,screenwriter.; Sennott, Rachel,1995-actor,screenwriter.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.; Orion Pictures,production company.;
Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Dagmara Domińczyk, Marshawn Lynch.In this refreshingly unique comedy directed by Emma Seligman, two girls, PJ and Josie, start a fight club as a way to lose their virginity to cheerleaders. And their bizarre plan works! The fight club gains traction, and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Digital surround.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Dark comedy films.; Feature films.; Lesbian films.; Queer films.; Clubs; Hand-to-hand fighting; High school students; Lesbians; Popularity; Self-defense;
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Boxitects / by Smith, Kim,1986-;
Meg loves to create things from cardboard boxes, deeming herself a boxitect. When a new student joins her maker school, she discovers she's a boxitect too. Can the two girls learn to work together?LSC
Subjects: Boxes; Creative ability; Cooperativeness;

Down among the dead men / by Lovesey, Peter,author.;
A nightmare discovery in the boot of a stolen BMW plunges car thief Danny Stapleton into the worst trouble of his life. What links his misfortune to the mysterious disappearance of an art teacher at a private school for girls in Chichester? Orders from above push Peter Diamond of Bath CID into investigating a police corruption case in the Chichester force, and he soon finds himself reluctantly dealing with spirited schoolgirls, eccentric artists and his formidable old colleague, Hen Mallin.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character); Police;

The world of Maxime / by Pesloüan, Lucile de,1982-; Goldstyn, Jacques.; Mixter, Helen.;
"Maxime is ten years old. Her favorite things are her books and cats--especially her own cat, Turmeric. Like Matilda, the heroine of her favorite book, she feels different. She wouldn't mind being like other kids but they make so much noise, it hurts her ears. So, her friends are the characters in her books, and her cat. If she were brave enough, she would talk to the new girl at school, who carries a copy of Matilda in her book bag."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Dahl, Roald.; Individual differences; Cats;

Zero-sum : stories / by Oates, Joyce Carol,1938-author.;
"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero Sum reinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life"--
Subjects: Short stories.;

Stolen words / by Florence, Melanie.; Grimard, Gabrielle,1975-;
A look at the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families and the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather.LSC
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Native children; Cree Indians;

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