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My name is Lily Anne Gemorski. I am not your normal 11-year-old. I am a spy. I speak four languages and know how to defend against someone three times my size. As a new recruit, I have learned a lot about being a spy. What I haven't learned is how to lie to my best friend, Becky, or how to get my team captain to stop hating me.

Mary finds herself alone after the only person who understands her, who has helped groom her to leave and travel to the East to live as a proper white lady, suddenly dies of yellow jack fever, which threatens to kill everyone at the plantation who is white. Now alone, with nothing to lose, Mary sees her chance to escape. It is then she strikes up a friendship with a boy her age who wants freedom and a new life as much as she does. Canada is his goal.

The students of House Orozco have their hero, and it's Vivian Hampton. For the first time in 17 years, they can walk the halls of the Pioneer Academy with their heads held high. Except Vivian has problems of her own

My name is Ava McNealy, and I'm addicted to The Haven, an immersive virtual reality program. Who cares if tyrannical aliens rule the Earth when there are endless digital worlds to explore, monsters to fight, and team-ups with friends. But when my father is arrested as a rebel, everything changes. Desperate to save him from execution, I embark on a perilous journey through treacherous levels and uncharted realms within The Haven, where everything is not as it seems.

Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the "Day of the Wanderer," Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wanderlust. Although she and her husband had planned to take their family on a 'round-the-world adventure, she didn't expect their plans to come together on the heels of grief, after losing seven family members in five years.

War has come to Citadel, threatening the desert provinces. I, 16-year-old warrior, have made an enemy of a powerful man. I'm not alone. Duncan Oaks, teenage member of the Grif-Drif Con-Artist Guild, has also made one bad choice too many in his dealings. Now we are both remanded to an off-world juvenile facility with lifetime sentences. Yes, you heard me right

3,000 is a collection of 28 short stories written over the course of 28 weeks. Each story is either told from a female perspective or features a woman as the main character.