A girl with a fat black braid and glasses says, “My sister died of leukemia, and you should have seen the flowers and the sympathy.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl’s lips. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One of the girls stands abruptly with her tray and says, “We don’t want to be late.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“First you have to see the girl and get to know her a little, and then we also have to consider Clara’s wishes. Don’t you think so?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to meet girls,” Bobby said when he moved back to Los Angeles in 1973. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He sprinted after the girl, just catching sight of her rounding the bend of the hallway outside the cockpit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She could feel Ben’s eyes on her, and she tried to still herself, to seem very much like a girl who was not afraid. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My stomach clenches as I watch the girls take their father's hands to cross the busy street. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot. And I GOT the scrawny. Narcissus? He’s such a loser even the Underworld didn’t want him. He couldn’t get the ghost girls to date him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The little girl said, “Scott, you talk too much, let him sit down.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the sofa in the living room, looking up at me bashfully, is a little brown girl, pretty in pink, very much at home. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the girl from the poster! Yes! I’m sure of it.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The other girl beat her to the question. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I sprang from my crouched position, threw my arms in front of me, and collided with the girl, knocking her to the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while a story would start about how young girls were stolen and enslaved by the controllers of the industry, and perhaps many of the stories were true. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a beautiful girl, dead in a mangle, staring at him with wide black eyes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was there, stone-still, ten feet away, holding her own water jar. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as school was out every day, the girls picked up Marshall at his nursery school and hurried home. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that those Goyem thought him man enough to be capable of thinking about any girl, Gentile or Jew, staggered him and he went his way saying gol-lee over and over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the girls at the next table say that he was a nifty dresser. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only girls in my life were the naked ones on my computer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she would recommend he contact the Placement Office for a girl. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The other girls in that place were jealous of that makgabe. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was clean, the people were friendly almost to a fault, everything worked neatly and efficiently, and the girls were pretty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The girl I took Wood Shop with walks around with a plastic tub, gathering mugs and plates from empty tables. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The girl was made of all the blues, and little sparks shot out from all her edges, shards of glass falling off and away. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The blurred child staring back at me looks hollow and distorted, not at all like the little girl in Phnom Penh whose neighbors called her “ugly.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of tall that puts a girl in the back row of class pictures with the boys. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m helping this girl Ellie get signatures for a petition,” I said, checking my tone. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I can use some slang, but not too much slang, some attitude, but not too much attitude, so I’m not a “sassy black girl.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The way the water in the girls’ locker room never came out clear. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The girl’s bag was on the floor, open, clothing fluffing out. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One girl’s sole ambition was to be kind to the poor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well mark my words. I just don’t want you to be disappointed. I can still remember how disappointed I was when I was a little girl and Santa Claus skipped my house.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was caught in a familiar trap for young women and girls—the fantasy that she alone could change her man. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You are the girl we saw in the forest that night, aren’t you?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a bulletin board, she’d found an apartment in the Village, not far from campus, with two other girls. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And white girls from small towns weren’t supposed to dream big, either. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In case you didn’t have one of those, it’s the dance where the girl asks the boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had a husband I deeply loved and two beautiful, healthy girls. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over and saw a Student Council girl in a blazer standing on the basketball court, right next to the tree. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No matter what, a pageant girl keeps her smile,” Mr. Ray Ray, the pageant coach from Tupelo, had told her once. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A girl, not much older than Leda, is slurping juice from a baby cup. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Having a revulsion against disease, she paid for regular inspection of her girls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"All right, ladies, come this way," Coach Whit called, leading me and the other three girls to the outside of the track. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

But I don't want a girl who clings to me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Your mother took the expensive ones with her to India, Anu. But if you want, you girls can choose one or two for yourselves." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In line for lunch, there’s two girls right in front of me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As Dany nibbled on an olive, the Naathi girl gazed at her with eyes like molten gold and said, “It is not too late to tell them that you have decided not to wed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She haunts one of the toilets in the girls’ bathroom on the first floor,” said Hermione. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatmata pointed to a mat where one girl sat, as though awaiting my arrival. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of girl doesn’t know when a tortilla is done?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Starting blocks are adjusted, and soon the JV girls shake out and get into position. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She would say, just as an American girl might, "I don't wanna. You can't make me. This is a free country." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Why not? Didn’t the old girl tell you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She waved the Mexican girl’s enrollment slip like a winning bingo card and trotted to the front of the room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I never say crude things like that to girls. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the Chinese culture it is not proper for girls to wear this color because it attracts too much attention. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peaches and the girl got into it pretty good and Peaches won the fight. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing next to her was...the girl with the pigtails? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, “You’ve got to have some meat on your bones, girl.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She put her hand on the girl’s cheek. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In front of me girls were entering and exiting the showers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s my blank stare—that I’m looking past them, staring at the little dead girl that looks like my sister standing in the middle of the courtyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I like hearing her call me “beautiful girl,” but I don’t like to see her cry. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was in the back of a truck loaded down with everything a girl owned, taking her to some guy she met online. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He sat in the library, surfing the Internet, trying to find more news stories about the girl who’d accidentally gotten on the wrong plane. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a girl with no memory. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Q. If I see a girl who looks exactly like Margo in Agloe, New York, I’m not going to do anything. Unless she has a notebook. That’ll be the giveaway.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the laboratory the girls from Dora’s heard the Plain Songs and Gregorian music for the first time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because she reminded me so much of another little girl from another time long ago. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rumor also had it that these papists were willing to work for lower wages, and, since the corporations did not subsidize their board and keep, the Irish girls were cheaper still to hire. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girl is talking on her cell phone, saying, “I’m telling you, forget it. Vanessa holds a grudge forever. Forever!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

These little touches of luxury would raise the the girls’ spirits. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt shame before them and he told them he saw his own exceeding folly in allowing the loss of a mere girl to make him forget everything else. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the canteen, which was nothing special, lots of boys and girls watched while I cried and ate my sandwich, the bread already greasy and the rice cold. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls tried to keep up their business but they went in shifts to sit with the families, and they carried pots of soup when they went. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girls will not go to school today,” she said to Ultima, “what’s one day. Deborah, Theresa!” she called up the stairs, “stay in bed! The snow has covered the goat path!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk out into the gymnasium and head to where the girls are sitting down, by Jeremy’s feet. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Like this girl wasn’t following close enough to know what kind of shampoo he used. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But I could see from the looks on their faces that losing most of their beautiful hair made those girls feel the same way I felt. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me have you seen two English girls in the town? They came here day before yesterday.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The boy and the Polish girl. I have an idea. I want to know if I’m right.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At home, the aunts had drawn the older girls aside and warned us that soon we would be señoritas who must guard our bodies like hidden treasure and not let anyone take advantage. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Every few days, she came up with a new girl’s name for the baby “Oga is happy,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wondered if there was a girl in his life. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And her face will beam and she’ll blow Diego a kiss before slamming shut her door and her and her girl drive off, waving. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I was one of the last girls in my P.E. class to have a period. I was beginning to think I was never going to have one.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s one girl I watch closer than the others. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl at the fountain had roused herself. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That one! Over there on the left! The little girl in the silver mink coat!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What a bad girl you are! You’ve dropped your cake! Now I’ll have to go over and get you a whole new slice!” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We had to go past the nurses’ desk to get to the door, but the girl in white seemed preoccupied, sitting with her head down, writing something. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over at the group of young black girls who’d arrived ten minutes earlier; they held a sign that said, #JUSTICEFORJAVIER. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was a very tall girl who walked with a great deal of movement. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“The girl is harmless and useful,” he said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing open the door and sliding inside the dimly lit hallway, I smile as I watch Converse girl for a second. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Liked among the women because he made them feel like girls; liked by girls because he made them feel like women—which, she thought, was what Dorcas was looking for. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meg colored, but a mischievous fancy to tease the girls made her reply demurely, “You are very kind, but I’m afraid he won’t come.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This woman reminded Hazel of that girl—except the woman’s eyes were open and completely black. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The little girl whimpers, and Christina walks over to her, mumbling something in a reassuring voice. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She goes straight for my hair like girls usually do, but my ponytail is real. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

His letters were drenched with lonesome longing for his girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A flame burst from it into the night, and the girl stared into it and exhaled. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You, girl, are you talking to yourself? Are you daft?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not all, though; there are two eighth-grade girls I know from the mosque. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on Kaitlin, but Diana wasn’t sure he was actually seeing the dying girl in front of him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I stared at the back of the girl in front of me. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was extraordinarily lucky, Mariam thought, to escape with relatively minor injuries, considering the rocket had turned her house into smoking rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before the noon break of the next day, a flying shuttle had grazed the girl’s shoulder, and she had let the shuttle run out of weft, ruining several inches of cloth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Polly watched, fascinated, as the girl squirmed and screeched and babbled incoherently. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the girls are wearing the exact same plaid skirt, white blouse, and navy-blue blazer with a fancy crest. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered the heat and sat down guiltily on the couch just as a freshly laundered nurse leading a little girl came into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Pima pressed the knife to the girl’s finger again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Great,” the girl said, holding up her drum. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If you cry and whine like a girl, who is going to listen to you? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Because it was bad for the girls to hear the flute at night. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In Mumbai, I wasn't the biggest girl in my class, but I wasn't the smallest, either. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three years later, after war broke out, the labor service was increased to one year and became compulsory for both boys and girls. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The girl behind the register tips her head back and laughs. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And I thought, Crafty girl almost sounds like I did when I fake-cried for Mr. Farrow. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girl was then pulled with difficulty from the stage, dragged across the dirt courtyard, and forced into the back of the wagon that Polly leaned on. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl in a white scarf and blue dress was standing next to the table and she was bending over and over again to give the man more of this soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two SS men were beating a child with clubs, a girl smaller than Helena, and then an older man with a beard came tumbling out the doorway of a warehouse like he’d been thrown. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In those moments, Deborah pretended he was her father, and she felt like a regular little girl. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The ranger saved Sam and the girl from the wights,” Bran said, hesitantly, “and he’s taking me to the three-eyed crow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, after the girl comes home from prekindergarten class, they thumb through picture books and play. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Sure. When girls dress up, they wear skirts. I have a lot to teach you about being a girl, Geor—Oh.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I look around and catch my own reflection in the mirror across the room: a human girl, hair tousled, eyes feverish, a pool of blood forming at her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The girls head turned and she half rose, listening to the murmur of the sea, but she did not answer and the old woman did not urge her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So we try to help out other girls. Keep them safe. You can stay here as long as you need.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The time when Baker & Inglis girls had balanced books on their heads was long gone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Barely could talk to a girl without stammering. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had many fine sons, and she was very popular with Chief Mmeke himself, who was pleased that he had been kind to this girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They even had to send a special van to the middle school just to get me and this girl named Annette Watson, who’s the backup piano player. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the finished painting in my head, the girl will finally know this. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I try to tell myself that I’m more than a legless girl, but that’s an effort too. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Shay’s party is at the Butterfly Gardens, and when I arrive, I recognize some girls from other classrooms. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They live in Tarrytown, New York—an easy commute for Brady into the city—and the two of them have a baby now, a girl. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They might have died, all and easily, but only this girl had, shaken from some pocket of the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Vot,” he said, draining his goblet and getting to his feet again, “is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was a girl like you are a boy. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls had been gazing up at him, bobbing their heads along to his song, Lianne so close she was almost leaning against his leg. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bell rang, and after cleaning the floor, a couple of the girls said good-bye to her! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girls were crying, and the boys were making funny barfing noises. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tall girl turned back to us, flanked by the campfire. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It did not seem likely; she seemed a stupid girl, not one you'd want delivering secret notes, but Sansa did not know her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She told Mama, who told me never to hit a girl there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That dog’s gonna be right jealous you dumped her so easy for something as plain and homely as that skinny, knock-knee Foster girl. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the same instant it occurred to him that he did not know what color the girl’s eyes were. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

So, too, were the girls’ stores of rainwater and smoked fish. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In English, he said, “You play hard, you Chinese girls.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Dub had been hoping for a son, but it only took a second for him to fall in love with his baby girl. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Waiting in lines for their ration of food, the women prattle about how the girl brought it upon herself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile was playful, like a young girl’s. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The topmost scholastic standing, I remember, kept shifting between me, a girl named Audrey Slaugh, and a boy named Jimmy Cotton. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Vote for the girl who has been the friendliest throughout the time we’ve prepared for this competition,” Mrs. Moore announces. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They believed the suspects were operating under the assumption that the girls knew more than they really did about the dead man’s drug dealings. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My eyes followed the girls and their Chevy, wanting to drive far. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were wide, her voice peepy like a little girl’s. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, another lifetime ago, she’d been someone else, a girl with hopes and dreams and loves and wants. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Malala describes how the Taliban marred the walls of her father’s school with threats because he allowed girls to attend. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her mouth twisted at the irony of it and she turned to the three girls at the water pump. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more often her efforts were disappointments, the uneven products of a girl still learning; usually she threw her experiments away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My image of these women was fuzzy, since there were none in Macún, where all the females were wives or young girls who would one day be wives. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean what I say: I don’t want to hear about you two causing a stir, having the world looking at three colored girls, wondering where their father and mother are.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The woman? What woman?...” the old lady began, but the slave girl at her side stooped and whispered and the lady recovered herself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The girl behind the counter had a teardrop tattoo under her left eye. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

For him, she wasn’t only a white girl, but a young white girl. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the girls were no longer always together, and Nancy deeply felt the daytime absence of her friend, the one person with whom she need be neither brave nor reticent. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny felt Ess trying to wriggle her fingers and realized that her own grip on the girl’s hand had become too tight. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every year the Greek girls mourned for him and every year they rejoiced when his flower, the blood-red anemone, the windflower, was seen blooming again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Priest never with girls,” he explained to me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She refused to wear jeans, refused even to believe Will when he told her that most girls did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was my own personal hang-up, but I felt like both girls were waiting to see if I would flip out or something. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a strange girl on the bench, with a bandanna tied around her head and big sunglasses and a patched coat. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only she’d allowed the Assassin to act sooner...If only she hadn’t been so harsh with her...If only she hadn’t allowed herself to be so distracted by that little girl... The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Anderson is not at home,” the girl said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl pulling her reflection out of the mirror and holding it close to her heart. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a young couple, a girl and a boy, walking real slow on their way somewhere. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She would shake her head, but Gregor could tell she approved of these girls. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea what she was attracted to—the boyish girl, the girlish boy—and eventually she decided it didn’t really matter. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Madam Mina, I knew that the friend of that poor lily girl must be good, but I had yet to learn——” He finished his speech with a courtly bow. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She had three children; a boy named after his father, a girl named Blossom and another boy called Paul Jones. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl sighed, leaned down, and shook her head. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad probably would have been able to give him all sorts of advice about how to talk to girls. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Other girls ran into the room, joining the fray. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Quickly! Keep your panties on, girls, just take off your shirts. Hurry!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I realize, all of a sudden, that this is the first time since I was a little girl that I’ve felt she has something to teach me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl blushed as she gave the man his ticket. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they told us about this Shay girl. Sounds like she’s a lot of trouble.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were several other girls being tortured in the same way, so it wasn’t as bad as I had feared. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I ran up to the Amish girl and got my tool, but Mrs. Maxy was right on me. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down beside her and put a thin arm over the bigger girl’s shoulder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His eye wandered up and down other girls’ legs, so he didn’t know how to drive straight home anymore. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, he’d never really considered the possibility that the girl might wake up and be okay. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Well, the girls who made snide comments about her clothes and the boys who laughed at her weight could have their opinions. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Whenever the girls broke out in laughter, I was sure they were laughing at me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Fay hadn’t reported it to the police—and as it turned out, she didn’t even know the girl’s last name. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When a girl like Deedee could run around and laugh like kids were supposed to. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then little black girl say to let rain from spouts go into garbage cans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I didn’t say was that I felt awkward with Isabella and me being the only girls there who weren’t Asian, because it seemed like the wrong thing to say even if it was true. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

His sixteen-year-old brother, who was apparently getting more action than him, with girls he barely knew. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“So I don’t have to walk too far when they announce the winner,” she tells the girls in her gaggle. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Bessie had gone to a far table and was sitting with another girl. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to stay for this confounded supper, but I shall be home early tomorrow. You’ll come and meet me as usual, girls?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls and Chong have taken a turn for the worse since the death of the boy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s eyes flashed with anger, then dulled. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Karl stood in a large hall crowded with boys and girls as parents and Nazi Party members milled about. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was younger, maybe thirteen, with amber eyes and chocolate skin and long curly hair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stare at the door with my heart beating, but I don’t have to wait long before it opens, and a little girl is standing there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The sun on his face and the girl’s smooth body touching his own gave him a strong, sleepy, confident feeling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I turned it over and sure enough, there’s my baby white girl done colored herself black. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Land Army girls were hoeing among the cabbages in the adjoining field—no time off for them in the rain, either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

An older man and a little girl came out of the busy store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl, I would go to the bakery, and the owners—two sisters—would tell me to sing for them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys and girls carried coolers on their heads, shouting, “Cold ice, cold ice . .“Cold ginger beer . A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The shop is too busy. We can’t close up or turn away customers. Besides, the Ogilvie girls are snobs. Why would they invite us, except to make fun of our dresses? I’m staying here.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day Johnny knew what orders were given to the Tenth and he knew other boys and men and women and girls were as carefully watching the actions of the other ten regiments in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More people than had knocked her down came to her aid, a laborer and a girl with a pram, and a kiddie and two women with shopping baskets. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sweet chuckles in the dark and her hair falling across my face, funny little catches in her breath like the girls back in high school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How bad both our girls are at catching!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor was around girls like that—like Park's mom, like Tina, like most of the girls in the neighborhood—she wondered where they put their organs. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The two girls rushed their little brothers back inside. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cut the shirt off’ my girl Clean the wounds with witch hazel and pack them with turmeric. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should ask God and nature why they put a girl inside a boy’s body?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The girls will have a hell of a time making it across. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes just one man would be standing by the side of the road selling one girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although in the reels and jigs they danced, every moment a different girl was clinging to it, none of them seemed to notice. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You girls are all so gifted. I did like that one, the colors are lovely. But what are all those eyes doing in it?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And girls, well, they practically lined up outside of Cabot and Benton’s room, waiting their turns to be touched by greatness. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“After nine months, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Now the parents’ joy turned to grief, for the law said that twins were evil and must be killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she was with that colored girl who used to go to our school.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you want?” the girl in the mariner’s cap asked in Yiddish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Watch, unable to breathe, as our center fielder, Britt-Marie Hogan—my best girl friend—runs with everything she’s got to keep up with the soaring yellow ball... Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The three girls were a little younger than me, and they seemed to adjust to me pretty quickly. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A visitor would have to be pretty slow not to get the message: these girls were not to be played with. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I am reminded of another girl, one who had seen all the evil the Capitol had to offer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But there were no girls in my family, so my brothers would do that, and people would laugh at them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it’s different for him now, no lazy Saturday sex or scrambled eggs, instead a different sort of joy, a little girl tucked up between him and his wife, babbling away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the next morning, though, the girls had decided the dog was cute. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about to pull the fridge open, but he stops and looks at me like I’m some little girl hiding an ice cream cone behind my back. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He always took a break to come kiss me and the girls good night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a girl in college now who is still a legend around here. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I remember asking the men to leave while I washed up my girls, and dressed them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Father, he should,” the girl said, turning to him, then back to Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After having been recognized, he could not go and sit at a table with an unattended girl. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As the Jewish girl, I took everything about it too personally. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Shaking her head at the view—of the hilly, green campus, the lake in the distance—she says, “Youse girls better enjoy it now. Best time of life is when you’re young.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A willowy girl wrapped in a singed navy blanket stepped out into the open, moaning. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Little girls with golden hair jumped up and down. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl behind the counter handed them their drinks with a cheery grin and wished them both a blessed evening. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“How could you let that girl use my skates? Tell her to get them off!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They got the boys on their side and the girls, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you going to do, you and the girl?” said Tialys. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, many young girls would be afraid of having a wild beast for a pet. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

"His lordship has gra-ciously consented to allow you to choose whichever girl you prefer. He has a number he thinks might be suitable." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was arguing with another girl over the chair. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Oakland High School administration began to investigate, they found that in the preceding couple of days, Jeff had slapped or grabbed the butts of two other ninth-grade girls as well. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There the stranger waited at the gate while the girl went in to tell her father that there was a man who wished to eat some food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Three little kids, two girls and a boy, were playing in a driveway across the street. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She just figured that because Polly was a white girl, her life just had to have been easier. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Jordan Gripenwaldt and some of the other Germ girls have joined us. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One girl with her back to us is bent over a crib, but she stands when Judith calls her name. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The girl at the head of the table started it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I walk with one of the other girls or one of the boys. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Neither of the girls seemed to think this was an acceptable answer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A girl with hair so blond that it looked almost white motioned for me to join her. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

That was when I had my first relationship with a girl. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sally is the girl with eyes like Egypt and nylons the color of smoke. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a pity I missed seeing my little girl! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give everything I have to her, the girl that I love. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Harry, who was now heartily wishing he’d left all three girls tied to the statue. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Just for a small and a forgotten time I have had full in my eyes from off my girl The whitest pouring of eternal light— He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pained moans cut through the noisy square like silver knives as the little girls endure their transformations. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Until we get Shoji back, it's just us girls. We can talk, you know. About anything.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s stupid. How can there be a language of love? And Bridge, is she really a ‘girl’? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She says they went after the white girls up in Stanleyville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That's what I told them. I said any girl who goes to such lengths to preserve her life isn't going to be interested in throwing it away with both hands.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was I trying to help the wrong girl escape? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I said, “If I was a Negro girl—” He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl and an old man, thought Asha, as the two were dumped rudely in the snow before her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rudy has a pronounced underbite; he looks like two dogs where one is eating the other’s head from below, but when I take him for a walk, girls love him and talk to me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When the other girls saw her, they giggled. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys wore khaki uniforms, and the girls had blue-and-white plaid dresses. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move back to the knot of girls just as Miss Duncan rejoins our group. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Next week, boys and girls, and don’t forget the sixpence for the little black boy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey was astounded by the wisdom of this tiny girl. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around for El, I find her sitting on our lawn chair, talking to a girl and a guy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s Edward. He’s gorgeous, of course, but don’t waste your time. He doesn’t date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had only just turned fifteen and didn’t have a driver’s license yet, and, anyway, Jim had girls to take out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know you got a fast mouth, girl,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third was about people who pierce weird body parts: One girl had a silver nail run through her bellybutton, and another one had a diamond stud put in her tongue. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She cried because girls who believed in happily ever afters could be murdered in attics, and because men who just wanted to have their voices heard could have their words choked off forever. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Pack your toothbrushes, boys and girls. We’re going on a field trip!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Someone brought them French fries and soda, and the girls dug in. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The other girls also looked like they were wearing their best spring dresses. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He picked up on my Victorian flourishes, my antique diction, my girls’ school propriety. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She stuck a hair ribbon in the place. she whispered as the feet of an army of girls could be heard thundering up the staircase. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A groan went up from the circle of girls. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She reached out and gave the girl a poke in the ribs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A girl about eight years old was sitting cross-legged next to Mrs. O’Leary, scratching the hellhound's ears. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I envy this little girl more than I would have thought possible. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her strides took on purpose as if her feet were marking a path through the cornfields where wild girls ran unconstrained — and where they hid themselves when the world judged them for their agency. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They tell someone they’re going to have a girl baby and they have a boy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Sweet girl, kind and gentle. Unsay one name and say another and cast this mad dream aside." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Isabelle,” the girl said, in the tired manner of someone who’d said it a thousand times before, which, of course, was exactly what Dimple had been counting on. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was the most beautiful girl in the world and we were in a bed together. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up, but all three girls started kicking me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That fool Attendant of hers forgot it, and the house girls sent me out with it.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Mya's a clever girl, and if she yows she will bring you safely to the Lady Lysa, I believe her. She has not failed me yet." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were girls in hijab, girls for whom English was a second language, girls whose skin made up every shade of brown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The girls are stopped at a red light as more traffic whizzes by. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And now she shouted, “Shame on you, Eleudierios! What’s the matter with you? Why don’t you get a girl from the village?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A little girl leaning out a window watching the world fulfilled the promises Marilyn Monroe made with her eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On 7 through 10, he was stuck until he realized that number 6 about the girls was so important it counted for at least four more than itself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She traveled the world after that, her name made, teaching girls how to defend themselves against shamblers, and finally marrying a handsome French duke. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A group encircled the convulsing girl at once, eager to assist in whatever way possible. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The bus lurched, and the girl rocked back to keep from falling. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The con’s voice is scratchy and an octave too high, like a girl’s almost. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I couldn’t refuse to help the girl—help her avoid at least some pain. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I challenged the giggly girl with curls like hiccups, who whispered it to me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she removed her mask and treated the dying girl face-to-face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls in the Big Creek band outnumbered the boys four to one. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the girl’s legs strained upward until only the tips of her toes touched the sand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two young women stood back-to-back performing a slam poem called “Hir,” rotating to face the mic as they gave voice to a girl named Melissa and the boy inside her named James. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the girl noticed and, on that frosty night, burrowed deep into the warm, rotting muck, heedless of the smell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave, and take the girl with you. Go!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the Ball Room there are girls who long to slow-dance with Mr. Go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Go has a way of ignoring the girls he pays to wiggle in his lap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A moment later a small girl appears in the doorway, dressed too nicely for the chaotic shabbiness of the surroundings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was serving against the mean girls from Davenport Lady Gorillas. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was one of those girls who never seemed to sweat. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He paused and looked at everyone from the first little girl in line to Frankie, who was at the end. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Hello, loner girl with her nose in a book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He stole a neighbor’s coffee percolator tube, set up a sniper’s nest in a tree, crammed pepper-tree berries into his mouth, spat them through the tube, and sent the neighborhood girls running. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I told her she was about the prettiest little girl I’d seen all day. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He hugged the girl tightly to his body, trying his best to protect her as he thumped against the hard-packed dirt of what had once been a flower bed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I knew it. I knew that girl was a thief the day she started.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Near the window was an array of violently pink products around which a cluster of excited girls was giggling enthusiastically. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Miguel kept up his steady chatter about girls, but none of them stood out much. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment I got a funny feeling that I was the older sister and Lynn was just a little girl. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Was it really so terrible to be a wild girl? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the undisciplined groups the babies crawled into gutters and the older girls each acted as if she were alone, a daughter among slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles and tells me I’m a good girl. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

These sugar-brown Mobile girls move through the streets without a stir. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then, when I was in ninth grade, I met this girl.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The girl sang her answer in three different tones. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Schools for girls had been burned to the ground, and all women were forced to wear a severe form of burqa, a head-to-toe veil that had only a tiny fabric grille for their eyes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said the girl impatiently, “I know. The Specters,” she said to Father Gomez, “she wasn’ afraid of the Specters at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She spent the day telling stories to Mother and the njuzu girls. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly held her camera at arm’s length and took a picture of the two girls’ grinning faces. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The girl has learned her lesson. Make her clean up the mess and let her be. It is distressing to me to see such a scene. It might mar our child.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl replied, “She didn’t sell it for the money. She would have shown her evidence if she really wanted a big price. She sold it for the fun of it. For excitement.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The refugee camp at Itang was filled with people of all ages—men, women, girls, small children. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a handful remain, including Celia Bowen with Poppet Murray clinging to her gown, the girl wearing a frown that seems more angry than sad. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The raw fear in the little girl’s voice plucked at something deep within him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Focuses his attention on Mom, even as he asks me, “Where’s this coming from, sweetie? Is that girl from school bothering you again?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked at the fire, I saw a little girl in a brown dress tending the flames. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But you found us, my brave little girl. I don’t know how, but you did,” he said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Many a serving girl had been sent to the dungeon bearing the jailer’s meal only to return white-faced and weeping, hands trembling, teeth chattering, insisting that they would never go back. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They gave him a full-month party inviting all the emigrant villagers; they deliberately hadn’t given the girls parties, so that no one would notice another girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I actually went through the chalk because a few of us girls were drawing unflattering pictures of Miss Anderson on our slates, but that is beside the point. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"The little girl who was with her," Uncle Tony made plain, his voice sharp. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The girl clung to her desperately, but she stopped flailing while Stella made sure the girl’s head stayed above water. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was tall for a girl and usually wore her head in braids. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“When I was a little girl, I lived by a stream. I used to catch my own fish.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the girl is bound to be let down. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Hungry Joe burst in just then, and everything was all right again, except that Dunbar staggered in drunk a minute later and began embracing one of the other giggling girls at once. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The envelope contained a card picturing a redheaded girl on the front. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A group of girls were standing about May’s table, admiring the pretty things, and talking over the change of saleswomen. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My new school, Our Lady of Mercy, was a polite and proper private Catholic school, with girls in plaid skirts and navy polo shirts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I saw the girl first, legs apart, gun drawn. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After being hazed into the most popular sorority at our school, these innocent girls didn’t stay innocent for long. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, and I helped Skid with a girl problem. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had to tell the girls what had happened to their dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Those two little girls in this picture,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In general, I hoped that time with me and the girls would always be a respite, even though work was forever close by. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Seven learned that October was Seven’s potions tutor in Boggs Ferry and they had become friends, according to the older girl, which made Thorn blush. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The boys looked as elegant as Salvador and Lucky, and the girls wore beautiful long dresses of peach, turquoise, yellow, pink, violet, blue, green, and white. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

"So for now, I'm really just a girl." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Those jewels had been purchased with the sweat and blood and sorrow of girls like her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Charlie and I made hats and long, flowing gowns, trying to imitate the Arabs, but I expect we looked more like little girls wearing their mothers’ party gowns than like Arabs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl with a shaved head stomps on my toes on the way in and doesn’t apologize. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I know,” the girl said, opening her eyes wide enough so that Talc could lose himself in their blueness for a moment or two. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did remember the first grade teacher calling out during a test, while students marked X’s on a girl or a boy or a dog, which I covered with black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next ten days to two weeks, while she remained in bed, we’d file in every morning so that she could tie the girls’ hair ribbons and make sure the boys had washed properly. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I looked into it a little more, I realized that most of the girls in the elite gymnastics world were already being home-schooled. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first time he had ever kissed a girl had been here. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The two girls who set out soon after breakfast did not provide such a contrast as on Meeting Day. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the littlest girl finding Dee, my old doll, in the closet. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Help!” the man cries again from inside the closed-for-service girls’ bathroom. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Reaching down inside the sticky mess, he pulled out the body of Maria DiStasio, the young girl who had been collecting firewood in the freight yard. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You’d leave a sweet little girl to die because she might be sick? No wonder the other people from your village didn’t stick with you.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I want no part of figuring out how to get undressed in front of girls who like to open the stall curtains on people for fun. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But then a flirty girl swooped in and pulled him away. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He remarried a young girl, and the new woman turned him around, or so MamS thought. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew which girls they were before he told me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know exactly what I’m saying—though, of course, I remember what Susie and Lucinda said about a Mr. Smith who likes pretty girls. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She thought it was preposterous, that she, a girl of fourteen, with nothing but a grade school education, would be considered eligible to take over the work of a thirty-year-old college graduate like Miss Armstrong. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went like this: Rather than taking a nap in the dirt, the two young girls looked for a clean, quiet place to sleep. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And a long way from the girl who gave speeches to the bathroom mirror. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The poor girl then had only her grandmother’s house to go to. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It was important to make eye contact and not cover your mouth when you laughed, like some of the more Japanese girls did. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

How to talk to a girl or pass a girl a note in class—there was none of that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the way home that night I practiced saying, "I almost saw this girl get killed." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I am a stupid, lazy girl who will never consider coming late to work again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Seducing pubescent girls, as he had done “eight or nine” times in the last several years, did not disprove it, for if the truth were known, most real men had the same desires he had. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I trust you will give no one cause to gossip about you. You are an honorable girl.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And if you can catch the Noise from other people, then the girl can catch it from me, can’t she? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We did not think of the fact that Pecola was not married; lots of girls had babies who were not married. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the other girls notice me dozing off during rehearsal break times and ask, “Why are you so tired?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor had always been a really smart girl—a little bit of a crybaby back then, but nice. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Several years older than any of the other girls, she was one of the school’s few black students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I lingered behind, and when their backs were turned, I rounded on the girl and thumbed both ears at her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The year Mama died, the older girls let me make a wreath of flowers and candles with them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe you need to expand your idea of how girls behave,” Dimple replied, grinning. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I saw your little black girl talking to a rebel officer on Warren Street. Do you allow your slaves to consort with the enemy?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girls scrambled off, but curious Oscar stayed on, looking around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Marigold was typically the type of girl who refrained from whacking surly old men in the shins as hard as she could. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The girls stare at me with open mouths. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Their bulging eyes seemed to rebuke her stares, but what were the attentions of one girl, disturbing their rest, compared to how the world had scourged them since the day they were brought into it? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When she was young it was the custom to tightly bind girls’ feet in bandages to make them as small as possible—sometimes as small as three inches long. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What options are available to a young, pretty girl with no family? No dowry? No home?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Beside the woman sat a girl, a little younger maybe than the twins, but not much. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The local girls, bareheaded, were walking arm in arm. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Will looked at him with wide wary eyes, and the girl saw his glance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now the girl’s hints made me want to know what was happening over there. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I recall it all the footlockers were in order, even yours, except that the inside cover of your footlocker was plastered with pictures of pin-up girls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ungrateful girl!” he sputtered, and I thought for a moment he would strike me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her granddaughter describes the handicraft exports from the Sundarbans region, where tigers are in danger of extinction and girls are in danger of being sold for money. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then Brave Orchid worried over a daughter who had the mark of an unlucky woman; yes, there was certainly a girl with an upper lip as curled as Brigitte Bardot’s. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth and I let the other girls pass, and in a minute we’re alone in the foyer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Nailer shivered at the sight of the broken rich girl. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When it was finally the girl’s turn, the PSF at the head of the line forced us apart with a sharp jerk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There had been a rare afternoon when Judith had invited Kit to go with some other girls of the town to pick flowers and picnic along the shore of the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of her getting married and moving to America was a lot easier to digest than that of her moving to Europe as a single girl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I . . .” He sat back down, leaned forward, staring at the girl’s face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She lowered her eyes, and for a moment, I thought that maybe I could see the little girl under all those years. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And don’t let on that I know that girl and what a Painsley she is. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was an open-air mosque where boys and girls studied the Holy Quran together. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She simply sat there staring wide-eyed and white-faced at the small girl who was perched on her window-sill in a nightie. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Star- girl retrieved Cinnamon and sat back coolly in the Hot Seat as if nothing had happened. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Seems like quite an opportunity for a hardworking young girl.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her academic success set her on a course that was different from those of most of the farm girls with whom she had gone to high school in Sequim. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If I was a girl, I’d probably make out with you,” he said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

More than twenty-eight hundred Peace Corps volunteers were now trained to implement programs for girls internationally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I met a girl in the bathroom during my visit last Thursday who said that once your baby teeth fall out, no one wants you. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I raise one of my crutches and wave to him; he knows I have crutches, just not that I’m a girl. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wished I didn’t have to wear it, and that was a bad thought, since all the women and girls walking in front of us wore theirs without any complaints. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I examine the girl’s face, which is bright red from the cold. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Charlese, what am I paying you for, girl? Get yourself down here. Now.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He placed the twenty-dollar bill in his pants pocket and picked up the pace to the girl’s house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As we made our way to the parking lot, I asked Gran, “Do you really believe Jesus brought that girl back to life?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When the girls and boys come back inside, the big sea monster has eaten all the Go-do-feesh. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Quiet," she told them, putting an arm around Weasel when the little girl came running up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He hedged at first, but finally admitted that she was a girl. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

No matter how handsome the house, once I enter I’m a servant girl—no more than a black slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the doorway in flannel pajamas, a toddler on her hip and two small girls clinging to her leg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What were you girls doing upstairs for so long?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t Lavender!” said Hermione impatiently, as another couple of girls appeared in the courtyard and Ron dived behind her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I knew from the first moment I told a girl my arms had burned off in a fire, I had found a great hobby: making up stories. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a pause, the girl hopped off her chair and came up to the table, sidling into the chair across from him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Please. I don't know where you pulled that cheery, wavy girl on the chariot from, but I haven't seen her before or since," says Haymitch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She dismissed the girl with a wave, and Margaret seemed only too happy to go, although she cast a sympathetic look toward Penelope as she backed out the door and hurried away. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The girls peeled off and formed a line across the stage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When he woke again, he was back in his bedchamber, drowning in the goose-down feather bed once more while a blond girl shook his shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the little ragged girl and the princess pull apart the layers of the onions, the tears start pouring from both their eyes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Now, Mrs. Boyd, let the girls have their say,” Mrs. Peck says with a smile but irritation in her voice. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to follow that crazy girl, no matter how good she smelled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And then maybe I could grow my hair out and be a girl?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There is this one girl in my advanced english class named Susan. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The stadium where I played soccer was adjacent to four ramshackle sand courts, used primarily by kitchen girls and kitchen boys on their day off. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Tristran's regret, he had caught no more than a pink and tantalizing glimpse of Victoria, who was his sister's age and, without any doubt, the most beautiful girl for a hundred miles around. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I find nothing, except for more girls like me, or women, or men, searching for the same thing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I curtsied and knocked into the younger girl. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smaller girl had on a jacket the sleeves of which were so long that they came down to her knuckles. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mom had once told me that when Grandma was raising her kids, she hadn’t really seen the logic in educating girls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Young girls in sweaters and print dresses came out into the dark street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shagufta sat on a bench and chatted with another cleaning girl. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls could barely keep from drooling in his presence. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. I’m not a little girl. I can take care of myself.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls in the bunk room were in a state of great excitement over the evening’s gathering. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"You cut her up like you were going to cut up this girl here?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many girls—those with families who could support them or sweethearts ready to marry them—went home, and new girls came in to replace them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They added more rooms as the family grew to include twelve children: nine girls and three boys. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The other girls in my class and I shook our heads when Sister Claire read us this. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He certainly didn’t want to cede control to a teenage girl wearing dinosaur pajamas. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My serve is what is called an epic fail, and some of the girls start doing the slow clap. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Even if the girl in front of you slips and falls on her bon-hooney and then catches on fire, too, you just keep smiling like nothing happened.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jackie felt her girls were doing fine and that media use was part of the family dynamic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were other boy and girl words, such as right and left: the man hand and the woman hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, white boys liked white girls, and black boys liked white girls. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In two weeks, he and this gorgeous girl are supposed to get into his car and drive up the East Coast together. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was humming to myself, a song my mother used to sing me when I was a girl. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And the girl’s face went ahead of him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls never talked of their feelings; none of them possessed the insight or the emotional equipment to understand themselves or others. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw Rishi blush and hurried to add, “I’m sure he’ll make some girl very happy someday. But that girl is not me.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He knows them both down to their split ends and nasty habits, but there’s a strange girl bond between them he can’t, and knows he isn’t supposed to, translate. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A girl whose parents didn’t allow her to have friends—how peculiar, how bizarre, how weird. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Stay with her. I don’t care what happens, no one’s gonna touch this girl. Swear your lives on it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Both of us were working a lot, and Charlie dated a few more girls. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

None of the girls jokes or drawls when mentioning him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I apologize, sir. Jane is a good girl but a bit protective, as an Attendant should be. She meant to ask, do you have any clothes suitable for a lady?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And he recalled Eilonwy’s words in his blackest despair, the girl’s voice telling him that nothing could take away what he had done. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I want the monster out of there. Him and his wet nurses. You cannot leave them in that same tower as the dead girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I type Arthur Georgia and there’s nothing but randomness, like a girl named Georgia binge-watching every King Arthur movie, and nothing about Post Office Arthur relocating from Georgia for the summer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In a flash she caught the girl’s ankle before she, too, disappeared—but then the weight of her two catches began to drag Kate forward into the hole. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And of course, as soon as we had, Mami and Papi got all worried they were going to lose their girls to America. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But Heidi edits herself, running into a girls’ bathroom just beyond. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, it looked like the new girl, Sarah Johnston, was coming toward me. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing they could do about that, or the separate “Colored girls” bathroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The animals remained the same, though the girls came and went. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Besides, by now I knew: Just to get on TV and speak on behalf of girls’ education was half the battle. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, my room is one big blast of girl, with all the dresses I make—floating and not—hanging all over the walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Ria!” the last girl said, almost skipping to her spot behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She looked down; then, with impatience, she looked into his eyes again: “Well, if I was back there, Gabriel, and I was the same girl!...” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The third, a girl who couldn't have been more than ten years old, stayed where she was, trembling when she saw me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Charles was also there, talking to a girl named Sadie, who was seventeen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A woman and a young girl approach holding hands. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She saw a proud, smiling girl with beautiful blue skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I turned to her and gushed, “Mrs. Obama, you’re such an amazing woman. Thank you for standing up for women. Thank you for being a champion for girls’ education.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were both right: Trip got bored easily, and seldom thought about girls once they were out of his sight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Obinze remembered how dismissive she first was of Nicholas, ignoring him while he, unused to a girl’s indifference, talked more and more loudly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The battered French girl and I were taken together down through the cellars and out to a little stone courtyard that must once have been the hotel’s laundry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The three girls moved to a mound of palm fronds, carefully removing them to reveal a rickety wooden trebuchet made of bamboo and counterweighted with coconuts. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I always thought she looked pretty with it like that—almost like a young girl. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And then the warmth got other ideas and started spreading into places a girl like Desdemona didn’t allow it to go, and she broke off the stare and turned away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The girl was a little old to be inducted, but exceptions could be made. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She eyes my sword enviously, and for a moment I catch a glimpse of a girl that is maybe more than she seems. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There, in the bottom right corner, is the girl who looks like Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I catch the gaze of one of the girls, someone pretty in a teen magazine kind of way. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She concentrated on plugging in her hair straightener—which she’d borrowed from a girl down the hall who was going to be wearing a wig tonight anyway—and laid out her makeup. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Others remember her fondly, describing a delightful, tiny girl that Celia herself does not recall being. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When you were a little girl, you used to dream that you were lying among the dead and all the spirits were begging you to scream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, plenty of girls her age don’t know yet,” said Father. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They say: She gets off on seeing girls in togas. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

By the time she was twelve she had made a pact, with two other Bengali girls she knew, never to marry a Bengali man. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” piped a girl’s voice, thin and high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Nobody home upstairs in your mother's house,” corrected the little girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every little black girl had a beautiful white baby doll with long blonde curls to love and to hug. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl breaking apart the sun until one star becomes a hundred stars, because she wants to cover the world in beauty. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I looked up at the kitchen clock on the wall by the back door I realized it was much later than I thought, so I went to talk to the girls. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Grandmamma," I said, "when you were a little girl, did you ever meet a witch?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school before spring vacation, she spotted a new student entering another classroom, an older Chinese girl with pigtails just like herself. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mama made me a sling out of the same bolt of cloth she brought over to make the bed sheets and baptizing dresses for the African girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl couldn’t talk, couldn’t communicate at all except in the inadequate sign language she had invented—a language even her mother only half-understood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I needed to be an octopus, because there is no way anyone without eight arms can do all the stuff the girl in the video was doing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom leaned over and said to me, “Paul, get a program from that girl.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or date with a gorgeous Spanish girl who has an adorable accent. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant, for Christ’s sake? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Regina worried that his pedophiliac tendencies might apply to boys as well as girls, and she didn’t want him to be alone with Bobby on the trip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Jack shuts off the engine, a girl springs from the backseat, wearing a blue-striped dress and white sneakers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is holding a photo of Bernadette, and a letter with large cursive handwriting from the little girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She's older in the face, and her body has curves that the girl in the picture didn't. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The most recent pictures were all of her before, when she was healthy, uploaded postmortem by friends: a beautiful girl, wide-hipped and curvy, with long, straight deadblack hair falling over her face. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Petra rolled her eyes and sang, “Let me shave your legs tonight, girl. Let me show you how it feels when your man ...” “Your man!” the girls sang. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He waited until peaches were rich and plump before serving them to the girls, knowing that then they might actually compete with candy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The girl looked at him and then at me and smiled. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seen a lot of girls get roasted out there, showboatin' on that first four hundred. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A voice-over kicks in atop footage of the girl doing perfectly normal human things, like, walking and eating. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I half-wondered if I should return to the bathroom and climb through the mirror, then send out the other girl, the one who was sixteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The little girl looked at me, secretive, contemplative. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that time the redheaded girl and I were no longer in touch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When slave girls and daughters-in-law ran away, people would say they joined these witch amazons. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged me there, and we went to talk to some girls from his street who were hanging out on the corner. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And the ten remaining girls in my class lingered in the courtyard every day after school in case these were our last chances to be together. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The girls stopped and clapped their hands joyously. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman about my mother’s age and a girl about my age got out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I walked barefooted out onto the varnished gymnasium floor, between the filled bleachers, the howls and whistles from the boys were double what had greeted any of the other girls. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demon girl made a small exasperated sound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just told Lisbeth to be a good girl and help Mama out, like she was used to helping out at home. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are some girls at my Hebrew school with pierced ears, so maybe it’s only my family.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

So far, not a single bird had eaten so much as a kernel of corn, because the two girls were making so much noise. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe, I told myself, Papa had missed us so much that he had gone in search of a young girl to replace us? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can the girl rest her hands on my belly for a little bit?” the woman asked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The girls are on the cement patio, sitting at the redwood picnic table, doing homework. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the mushroom-cap girl gnawed on her thumbnail and glared at the linoleum. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That was when the girl sat up, clutching the cloak to her small, pale breasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In another she was standing in a line with three other girls; they were wearing what might have been prom dresses, and her black hair was tied above her head in an intricate knot-work. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I would show my mother and father and the nosey emigrant villagers that girls have no outward tendency. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls fell in behind her as she led them up into the hills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her girls came in one at a time and looked at her for decency and for luck and went away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tries not to think about it, but his...the accident hit the girls hard. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No one can bring down the cavern of Mithras, especially with one strike. Especially not a girl!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At seventeen, the girls could join the Faith and Beauty group, which promoted physical grace through instruction in dancing, hygiene, and charm. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re worse than a girl. Give her a few days. How are you doing, though? About Emma, I mean. Are you okay?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But instead of crying, like the Erudite girl, I feel colder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I decided to go first to a San Francisco address given to me by this girl in Peking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were. You were wonderful,” the girl said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I am a fearless fighter for girls’ education who overcame a horrific attempt to silence me.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay with me. And that reminds me, we might have a first student for your lessons, a little girl named Aisha. Her mother was inquiring at the Islamic Center.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Can I have your autograph?” said a little girl. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the boy kept working up the girl’s shirt, and as much as she said no, he kept working it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Was I going to end up like girls who quit school to cook and clean? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A black girl and a white girl stood on either side of me and we had our photograph taken together. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“She’s just a foolish girl. There’s no need to drag her here and interrogate her.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The girls here are really into the outdoors. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As I stood in the basement ironing, with the girls sound asleep upstairs, I continued to pray. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Auntie calls me her burden,” the demon girl added. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke at length of the black man and the one with the jerking mustache and the girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It must seem imposing to a farm girl,” Mrs. Bedlow said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have A’s in school Puerto Rico. I lern good. I no seven gray girl.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the girl smelled like her mother’s house, like the dab of perfume she had touched to her neck before school that morning. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then she started hanging with these girls—their house was filthy, they were filthy—and they just kept dragging her down and down and down. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study them: most are princesses from the royal family—nieces of the king and queen—and a few girls and women from high houses. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Paul sat between the girls the whole way with Amélie purring on his shoulder. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Good brave girl. Now go sit by the fire, get warm. Go.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In one of my classes, I’m the only girl. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And wherever she went, she saw a boy and a girl together; walking arm-in-arm, sitting on a park bench with their arms around each other, standing closely and in silence in a vestibule. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl who couldn't be much older than twelve or thirteen approached his window. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The little girl they chose to read the scripture can’t read. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One girl, already in her final year at the University of Ife, got an American visa the first time she tried, and gave a tearful, excited testimony in church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’s only one girl by herself, but she has a whole apartment, with a sofa and a lamp, a separate bedroom, and matching dishes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The weirdest part of it all is Soojin saying that she overheard girls on her bus talking about how “cute” he is. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Okay, girls, if you haven’t signed your name on the tryout sheet, please do so now,” she said, pointing to the clipboard on the table next to her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But what kind of liberation movement shoots innocent civilians, children, that little girl? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a lump in my throat as I said, “I’m sorry, little girl, I should’ve known.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl read it over twice, slowly, with her left cheek resting on her left hand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gobbling their chow, they sometimes twittered in tones musical enough that people mistook them for little girls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A girl with multiple piercings in her lips and ears and nose put a fresh batch of brownies into the oven. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I felt disloyal for wanting to learn English, for liking pizza, for studying the girls with big hair and trying out their styles at home, locked in the bathroom where no one could watch. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fadi stumbled for a moment, eyeing the girl’s bright pink dress. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the biggest rock I could find and hit one of the girls on the head with it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

George was only a few years younger than the girls smiling at her from the glossy pages. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t see her calling any of her girl friends to come cuddle with her to watch movies and then hold her all night long. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

‘We shall be leaving here very early in the morning, and catching the first train,’ said Mrs Helena Kingshaw, excited as a girl. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They were still little girls, trying to get in good with Daddy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Jerome knew what I was, as suddenly I did, too, for the first time clearly understood that I wasn’t a girl but something in between. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve read your letter of recommendation. Surely a girl of your talents will thrive on the challenge, what?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hit Flame in the mouth, but the girl did not move. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was barefoot in the snow, bundled up in a fur cloak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When he saw this beautiful girl, he slithered out and swallowed the makgabe and the girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You will put that girl in the sculpture you make with me, understand?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Now Wang Lung had not thought of the girl except as a poor small child who was frightened and he cared as he might care for his poor fool and no more. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like how it used to be, back when the world was different for girls like her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered what Papa had said, and I stopped myself from falling into the whiff of salt air and flying off with the seagulls like some dreamy flower girl. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the proof was obvious to everyone when a new girl came to school when I was about nine. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

About fifty girls, all dressed in indi'gena clothes, sit in the first few rows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This beautiful, talented, intelligent girl had really been worried about me and about my family and my brother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You shall do no such thing, fiendish girl!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You girls won’t remember my grandparents. Lexie was only a baby when they passed. Anyway, they moved here and stayed. They really believed in what Shaker stood for.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. A girl from here in the village that got killed last year.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did I recognize her, though just barely, from the photograph Miss Peregrine had shown me of herself as a young girl. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered how Chucha used to say girls who keep seashells die old maids, and I took it back to Tía Mari and said, Keep this for me until I’m married. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl sailed serenely past the nationalist rally, the three girls clustered around her like starched white tugboats escorting a blue cotton ocean liner. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She no longer looked like a young girl. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He meets a girl at one of the dances. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

How pitiless were the Fates and how helpless was this poor Black girl. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of the Maxwell boys' voices had deepened, and the girls displayed lacy bra straps inside their T-shirt necklines. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And for a moment, she was more undone by this girl’s beauty than by the carnivorous snake. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

One girl shared a soldier's bed three nights running; the Mountain picked her on the fourth day, and the soldier said nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But nobody else here has hair like that,” a smaller girl said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A woman in red leather said, “You go, girl!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hugo shivered in the cold, and in a few minutes the girl appeared from behind the building and ran over to him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Nearby stood a little girl with hair gathered in two fat puffs over her ears, and Nhamo knew the bread and margarine were for the little girl. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One snake twined around the girl’s body, ssuh, and came up by her face. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had ripped the wire down, and every kid on the block, girls included, could climb onto that roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A small girl dressed in a man’s white undershirt opened the door and stared at them in puzzlement. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He isn’t just seeing the pretend girl she feels like so much of the time, the girl who tries to be so perfect, perfect, perfect. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The girls in the magazines she was looking at wore a lot more clothes than that, even the ones at the beach. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She took the little girl’s face in her hand and turned it toward herself. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to tell who got caught, because a few tables over, a girl’s face is getting redder and redder while her friend whispers in her ear. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The mother, dialling the number on the phone, said, "I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up from Footlights for Jean, which was about a young girl who got to be an apprentice at a playhouse. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Now a number of reporters were following the story of Fazlullah’s attempt to shut down the girls’ schools of Pakistan, including a man from the New York Times. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"A red hat?" the aunt said, and in her wonder she loosened her hold on the girl, who quickly slipped away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was the type of girl who participates, and Rowan was the kind of kid who avoids. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The girl rushed to the door and told the policeman that Raymond had hit her. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned’s little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that I was going to lie before I entered the courtroom, before I saw the woman, before I saw the little girl, but now I wasn’t so sure. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was probably a girl; there is some hope of forgiveness for boys. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This only made the hearts of the young girls beat the harder, and no one had suspected that anything was wrong with him until the day of the storm. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His only regret was that he’d never had a daughter, for he loved little girls as much as he loved little boys. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was one from a girl he kind of liked, so he went into his room and called her back. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Over my dead body,” the girl shot back. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ms. O’Malley asked for volunteers, and an older girl’s hand shot up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I have some errands to run tonight. Then I’m meeting... some girls. At church.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She’d have to start thinking of ways to make being the “poor girl” part of her charm and appeal. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A girl about nine years old was tending the flames, poking the coals with a stick. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Flee!” said the very first of the voices—another girl, Coraline fancied. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As the girl had lived in my house and I was the only one home that particular night, it was my job to cheer him up. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The old man’s eyes traveled to the painting of the girl over the mantelpiece. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The girls had been there for twenty minutes, proposing ways of getting inside, rejecting all of them. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The girls from our cooking club all talk excitedly. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Some girls take out their instruments and gather on the lawn to play together. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sylvanus and the colored girl was laughing and enjoying one the ’nother’s company and I slid my eyes o’er to ’em and something all the sudden hit me and made me want to cry. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

So here, in limning her portrait, must I paint her as she was, a girl of little more than my own age now. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Blond college girls in sundresses or short skirts and low-cut tops. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

With ashen faces, some of the younger, prettier girls reach into the bags we have vomited into and scoop out handfuls of it to smear on their hair and clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben flew over two rows of folding chairs and fell on top of a small girl who screamed until a host of arms lifted Ben out of the wreckage and off the girl. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stupid girl! I know you ate some on the way. I am old and I need this more than you.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were bachelors, but Harry Brooks, like Phil, had a steady girl back home. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A mom holding the hand of a little girl in a pink hoodie. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Another rumour had it that a girl’s ghost wandered through those trees. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The new girl is scared of the dark,” Mandy replied in a tremulous voice. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The girls won’t want to know that their dear mother was such a fool. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say: I can't figure out why she hangs out with that weird neighbor girl. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No sir. I like girls fine. Just not dances.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?" says Caesar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“If she were just a foolish girl, she wouldn’t be ranked first, now would she?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Hempstock would certainly not be averse to seeing our Daisy happy. Certain he'd settle a flock of our sheep on the girl." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was the one in armor, kneeling next to the unconscious girl. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess she saw what there was to see in that girl’s face—and mine—as we moved out to dance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What did she care what two girls she didn’t even know thought about her? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“My girl needs a better weapon than this woeful sword, something more befitting an Attendant. I was hoping we could have your leave to procure some proper weapons for her.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I once knew a girl in my village who was born with an extra thumb.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But since the girls’ arrest, we were all too numb to feel or talk of any other grief. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m being wrenched away from my new life, the life of girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s actually really good, but there’s this twelfth-grade guy who’s been the main pianist since he was a freshman, and he’s not about to get booted by a middle school girl in his senior year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends leave me with my salty attitude and join a big group of girls dancing together. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I wanna know who you are, who this shank girl is, and how you guys know each other.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Later, boys and girls ages thirteen to fifteen manned the batteries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as there are separate doors for boys and girls, there are also separate parts of die schoolyard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the fall a few girls caught on. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

After the big, deep, claw-foot tub was filled—too full for a little girl, almost too full for a grown woman—Momma sent the girls away. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You very smart girl! I quite proud of your smartness!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Give her more,” Nailer said, and again the girl drank, this time taking the cup in her own shaking hand. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the Year of the Dog, 4645, there lived halfway across the world from New York a girl called Sixth Cousin. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Protestant girl, come with me to the True Church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’d dreamed of her little girl, sometimes crying because she missed her so much. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I move to sit on the bleachers before I realize the beach girls are sauntering this way again. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The singing of the girls over their test-tubes, the preoccupied whistling of the Microscopists, suddenly ceased. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls looked at each other and nodded in agreement that Toby was telling the truth. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when he had gotten quite out of breath and Paula had probably grown quite seasick in her box, the girl stopped and knocked on a door fit for a giant. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he let out a sigh and said, “Sit down, girls. Sit here on this stoop.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Their name was Platt and there were a lot of them—four girls and two boys and the parents and their aunt who lived with them, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, what else could a colored girl like Penelope want from a white man who was so very high above her station? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“What was it like to play a girl onstage?” asked Ellie. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The boy with the sticking-up hair strode up to the tallest girl and without a word, stomped on her bare foot. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I blew her a kiss. All the girls cry when I kiss them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The girl looked at the blood on the floor and gasped. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The sea! I have to swim in the sea. Don’t give me no itty bitty teeny tiny tub, girl. I need the whole entire complete deep blue sea!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody in the town would have much sympathy for a disobedient girl. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Well, your eighth grade son is afraid of a girl. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A young girl with white-blond hair in a high chair, her mouth frozen in a toothless grin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Hearing “Come in,” he opened the door to see Griffith and a girl. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I look to Alyssa, who, just like me, is shocked by the appearance of this mysterious girl, and terrified by what her intentions might be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Let me repeat: I will not "act like a black girl." Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“You are much more than a girl, let me assure you of that. You are older than Susannah there.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is too good. What happened to the girl?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then I realized that a girl with an orange belt had gotten off the mat and was coming toward me. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stooped and examined the handful of its body—a wisp of bone and skin—a girl. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Right now, the contenders are, of all people, Michael Clark and Edna, which has split the class into boys versus girls. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The girl tried to help him retrieve it before anything was burned, but he told her to just sit still, for Chrissake, and she pulled back her hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was in no mood for tiptoeing around the little girl’s whims right now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All of the Kappa Zeta girls dress like they just stepped out of a Gap ad, their nails are perfectly manicured, their hair perfectly curled under at the tips. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know until you try. Thing about girls is—” Dill chuckled and punched Travis in the arm again. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He said, “Miss, I wonder if you would, could you look at this girl and tell me if you notice anything?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another teenage girl had been arrested on the bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you see that girl come in here a moment ago?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I shrug, try not to notice how when a regular girl gets asked out, it’s information, but when Skeeter Phelan gets asked out, it’s news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would beat the boys and girls so badly that they would not be able to walk the next day. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers lugging babies and groups of pretty girls in short, smooth dresses with purses to match. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You girls want to stay here this morning?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Besides the lifeguard watching from his perch, there’s a gaggle of girls my age patrolling the beach with younger siblings in tow. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A regular girl Xan said it again and again and again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the fire dwindled, the two girls huddled even closer together. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“School,” I say, trying to sound natural, trying to sound like my sudden interest in the old-school indie rock is what all the brown girls are doing these days. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stan strolling out of Jefferson’s back parking lot, a basketball tucked under one arm, a beautiful girl under the other. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If he was seen to accept Bolton’s feigned girl as Arya, the northern lords who had gathered to bear witness to the match would have no grounds to question her legitimacy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’d been wishing for the chance to be a normal girl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Would I like it better with a girl? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the girl from 12, I’m scheduled to go last. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She enumerated for Gladys, who had been working for us only a month, all the treasures el doctor had brought his girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A tear cleared a path down the girl’s dirty cheek. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The little girl was howling, holding the loaf in both arms. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This led the little girl to write the stories down. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried again to free himself from the girl but then something hit the back of his head with such force that he began to Stagger. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a girl with dark hair, olive skin, and the silvery clothes of a Hunter. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The door was opened by the whitest girl I’d ever seen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, however, this mutually orchestrated dance of avoidance between her and the girl was not possible. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You don’t see a sword,” I told the girl. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Be good to the children on this trip, Bull. You hear me. They’ve been looking to your coming home. Don’t spoil it. I mean it too. This is your lover girl speaking.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you want to help the Polish girl. Are you like that English nurse, the one who carried her lamp through the dark to save all of those sick people?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Robert loved a silly girl. She did not love him in return.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had picked out three girls who looked alike enough to be sisters, each one as thick as my sisters and I were lanky. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Three pictures of the little girl, in a pink shirt and pigtails, stand as a constant reminder near a television in a corner. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They met the girl’s eyes as she stared out the window at them, they felt her gaze like sunshine on a spring day, warm and comforting, and for a moment they were seen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

No one ever assumed the popular girl needed to be given a gift. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The little girl’s eyes locked on his, and he came to a decision. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The girl nodded, then recollecting herself she drew aside so that we could enter, came after us and stood biting her lip as if uncertain what to say. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the only girl smart enough to stay out of Alexia’s nonsense. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Aquilla, standing on the stage, looks calm, almost serene—strange for a girl holding the ax that’s to take off her best friend’s head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That girl greased her big Amazon body all over to look shinier and blacker. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then a little girl in the back raises her hand and says, ‘We’re all human beans!’” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just liked girls because I couldn’t help not to. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The girl looked long and hard into the doll’s brown eyes then smiled like she saw something there ’sides a couple of buttons and some thread. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The girl is still inside, mechanically lifting books from a pile and placing them on shelves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t lie, we get the “why is he dating her” stare that usually comes from rich white girls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Nhamo felt the long arms of the girls twining around her—or were they arms? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just a girl, and she was shivering. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t we want our girls to be warm for the winter?” she asked, but she wasn’t really asking a thing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After all we written and the hours we spent tired and worried, I ain’t seen the girl she still is in a long, long time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Watching is not seeing, dead girl. The water dancer sees. Come, put down the sword, it is time for listening now" She followed him over to the wall, where he settled onto a bench. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wished this girl were his little sister. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And besides I didn't want him to see the patients and the girls. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl looked down at first, silent, then she looked Kosi in the face and said quietly, “In my last job, my madam’s husband was always forcing me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hey, cleaning lady,” a girl farther down the table calls out. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Have these people forgotten history, don’t they know anything about the Scots, don’t they know any better than to clothe small girls in the colors of despair, slaughter, treachery and murder? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because I’m the only girl in my family, the only advice I was given was to keep my legs closed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in some ways it’s better that we never had to work that out, he and I. With respect to my father I will always remain a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl with arms that reach up to the clouds, but all the clouds avoid her because she's made of night and not day. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you now about the breasts of little girls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preparing to break the news, the nurses stocked up on candy bars for the girls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Amish girls were handing out wood-handled carving tools and all the kids were sitting at picnic tables surrounded by the moms who were helping them. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it finally ends, the girl gets up and goes inside. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Sierra, I thought you were turning in, girl.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But I still was not too sure about the demon girl, and I had heard about fox demonesses luring humans to their deaths. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just...think they can be weird. About girls.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d barely slinked down into my chair when the girl sitting across the aisle spoke to me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

"Mya Stone, if it please you, my lady," the girl said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So I did, and the flash lit up our stall and now there was photographic evidence of me with a girl. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Of the two men, only one recognized the sexual excitement that rose like a tide in the slender girl who hovered around the table long after lunch had been cleared away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the gentlemen’s approaching, one of the girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Other boys his age have begun to court girls already, asking them to go to the movies or the pizza parlor, but he cannot imagine saying, “Hi, it’s Gogol” under potentially romantic circumstances. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had recently carried off a little girl. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one in the restaurant but the maitre d'hotel and a waiter and a girl behind a desk. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I think of it as more of a hunting story than a fairy tale,” Kaisa said, “though there are fairies in it. Another huntress told it to me, when I was a little girl.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a girl. A black girl. Who do you think it’s supposed to be?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just a pair of guards outside the bedchamber, to keep the girl from wandering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The story goes that a young girl is going to her grandmother’s house but stops to pick flowers on her way even though her mother told her to go straight there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Trembling, the girl reached out her hand, held it well above the flickering candle flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They take me to Mercy Hospital because I am a twelve- year-old girl and they don't want me to have facial disfigurement. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The girls in my group go back to whispering and giggling about Michael as Ms. Tannenbaum starts to roam the room. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I'm betting many of the other tributes would pass up a smaller girl, even one who scored an eleven in training, to take out their more fierce adversaries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Next to me, the girls have their hands up in the air. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Bill turns the gun on me, then the girl next to me, then finally the one on the end. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The little girl disengaged one hand without thinking about it, and clapped an expressionless golden mask over her face. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not fear to look on me, lady. All will be well with you,” I said to the girl. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I laughed to myself a long time afterward about how Ella's mouth flew open when we showed up at the front door—me and a well-bred Hill girl. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the one on now—a guy with a lot of rings on his fingers rapping to some pretty girls in bikinis. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Ma had told them to ask that, and Mary was a very good little girl who always did exactly as she was told. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I’m this sad, fat girl stepping on her heels. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On October 20, 1852, Stanton gave birth to her fifth child, a girl. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The little boys are grand, too, but you need a little girl for yourself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was a good girl, and always remembered her courtesies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two girls on their stomachs, peering at a cell phone. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was because he was thinking what everyone thinks when a girl disappears. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Blame the girls for dragging me along. That’s the only dying they could agree on. We needed to help you or you’d mess things up.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention his wife, not even in passing, but he wrote that he spoke Spanish to his little girl so she’d be able to talk with her grandmother someday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d start to look like the girls in the magazines, be forced to wear dresses and high heels and makeup—go to high school. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“That girl Elizabeth seemed to really like it. She said her own mom doesn’t cook much.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Taylor led Adina to the arsenal the girls had made in the jungle weeks before, and Adina cleared away vines and leaves from the catapult, the cannon, the stash of beauty product weapons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The girl, seemingly surprised, looked up and gulped back her tears. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, if I do the asking, then I’ll be sure to go out with the girl of my choice if she says yes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This girl taught me how to do manicures and also to work on hair: how to finger-wave, shampoo, and give permanents—but this was on white people’s hair. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that Swanburne girls dressed plainly, ate simply, and were unspoiled by luxuries merely made the true riches of Penelope’s upbringing all the more evident to her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Xan tore down the road, her old bones groaning, undoing spell after spell, before she caught up to the wayward girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A girl in a pink hoodie emblazoned with the word Bollywood across it and oversize shades, a small diamond in her nose. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Vatete's husband glanced at the wasted girl as she tottered to a log and sat down. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fool girl jerk the cover off me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Lady, I think your little girl has lost her speech.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother announced that now we girls could use our idle time to build up our hope chests. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the father, and you both are my little girls.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take a flying fuggut the moon?” he said kindly and he turned back to look at the girl. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, he knew, her mother would have leaned down to tend the little girl at the sound of such a cough. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Taylor tried to lead the way, but many of the girls ran scattershot for the forbidding jungle, scrambling over brambles, scraping their tender flesh against the prickly trunks of the palms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to make a fuss about it, so I just walked away and went looking for another girl to talk to. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The nearly grown girls wore skirts as tight as the custom allowed and the young men slicked their hair down with Moroline Hairdressing and water. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl of action, clearly not open to conversation. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody minded playing around, the girls said, but in this case Jeff had crossed the line. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They kept the paste on the arms until it had all rubbed off, but the second girl’s arms remained thin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

For the first time since she had been taken from her mother, the girl Hel smiled, with half a mouth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A petite girl with a blue wristband, a headscarf, and floaties does something dangerous at the very last second—she turns around and falls backward, like someone pushed off a building. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A grey girl on a dying horse, fleeing from her marriage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No kid wants his best friend to see text messages from a girl who’d broken his heart. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They watched till the end when a golden girl from Texas won the shining crown and took her tearful walk amidst flashing bulbs. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was thinking we should give up when two girls walked by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But she is a giant person like in the long-ago stories Halmoni used to tell me so I would be a good girl. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then he said the items, starting with girl and working back to cockroach, and I swear he looked just like a great big baby that had just made a superduper mud pie. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They wer? looking for a girl, but he thought she was a boy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girls swoon as he dives for cover. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He looked up from where he lay wrapped protectively around the little girl and saw Trina barreling her way toward him, pushing others aside, her eyes afire and focused on Deedee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She was plainly delighted that Roy had brought home a friend, even if it was a tough- looking girl. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he initiated girls into the mysteries of sex. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the wife and the girl and for the husband. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nailer would have been smarter to simply let Pima pigstick the girl and be done with it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The girl pulls off a headdress of leafy branches and tosses it behind her without bothering to look where it falls. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s dreamt of marrying Prince Henry since she was a little girl. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She looked at the older girl with the circlet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Afterwards, though, they seem improbable, childish even, like something you’d do for fun; like a girls’ club, like secrets at school. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was fifteen, a new girl had pointed at me and asked, “Who’s the stork?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The girl bit her lip, still looking at him with that same mixture of pity and concern. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And Mama knew that wasn't fair girls inside and boys going off to steal peaches! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I could teach you girls how to spit like a master,” he said. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Not with that white flag. Not a girl. There are others ahead. Follow this wall.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The girl survived, even if her skin did not. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girl selling tickets smiled down at them. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was loving and firm with her family, three girls and me, trained us in housework, dish washing, clothes washing, and manners. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Women were supposed to educate young girls—to teach them all these household chores. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorian, stumbling over the chairs, tried to push the girls back to the table, snapping, “Now sit down there and be decent.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t send James or the Potheads on every town run, but I can’t ignore the fact that I’m a girl. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look like the same girl who had argued with the King’s Chancellor in the Council room, demanding that she be given a choice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The parents of the quiet girl, on the other hand, protected both daughters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie told the girls, and they asked: “Where is he going to sleep?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"My God, put a camera in front of that girl, and she'll shine like a diamond! Between the single men and the job opportunities, her phone is going to be ringing right off the hook!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A little girl with her hair tied up in braids swung on a porch swing and watched us with wide round eyes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I did all he asked of me, I played my part, I gave the girl away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are lots of girls carrying all kinds of blades: foil, epee, sabre. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I open my door, the redheaded girl is collecting my unitard and boots from where I left them on the floor before my shower. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I have more holes than substance, but I’ve pieced together a girl with the scatter of memories that have come back to me, and a life recorded beyond reason. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

This girl was very slender, and Lazlo hardly expected the goddess of despair to have kind eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sissy threatened the girl’s mother with arrest if she didn’t treat the girl better. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl lay sticks on the ground in circles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

El sits at the foot of our lawn chair while a girl I’ve never met sits at the other end with a boy behind her, like they’re riding a motorcycle and she’s the one driving. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Three little girls dressed in identical black dresses and white scarves clung to the slight, bespectacled man behind the counter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Who is this boy that would risk his own safety for a girl he didn’t know? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought Kaelish girls with the Menagerie wore the red mare cloak.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But you know, since the girls are here, I’m not working today. Tomorrow, okay?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Holton said, “Ooh, girl, they told us the same thing, the land of milk and honey!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Why else would the girls have come here? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Aw, come on, girl. Let’s get out the house. It smells like garlic in here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girls, they drink all this milk with cow hormones,” I say between bites, “and they develop a lot younger.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The Commandant told us to finish them off before they left the Gap, and you go running into the woods like a scared little girl—” “He stabbed me, all right?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your mom always said she couldn’t believe what an easy girl you were and I remember telling her, ‘Just wait until she hits puberty.’ If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry shouted as the girl who so resembled a veela got gracefully to her feet, shook back her sheet of silvery blonde hair, and swept up between the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tables. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“So, when you girls walk dogs, do you make sure to clean up after them?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Some girl ate a squirrel sandwich,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“So,” he said finally, “you are not one of these female reform girls?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, girls stopped coming to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the two women remembered that in China families married young boys to older girls, who baby-sat their husbands their whole lives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch together as Maya gains on the girl ahead of her, and we both hold our breath when Maya hands off to Angie. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The girl named Kaede tilts her head at me and grins as we face each other in the ring. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs Phelps, slightly taken aback at the arrival of such a tiny girl unaccompanied by a parent, nevertheless told her she was very welcome. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed with Uncle Jet and told him about Joyce, the girl in his class that he had a crush on. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I put a stop ... to everybody in our class except that horrid girl from Old Sarum. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Aubrey squealed, and so did all the girls around her, but they were all giggling in that way that girls sometimes do around boys. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hanako touched her braid defensively, though the girl didn’t seem to mean any harm. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girl is on her butt, too, sitting on the ground away from me, holding on to one of her upper arms with her hand, blood coming from twixt her fingers. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A boy and a girl about my age are leaning on the fence, chatting, and I look down on the prettiest, cleanest pigs I’ve ever seen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl might see them and somehow that would be much worse than her just seeing us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then a few more of the girls. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed at being singled out that way, Hannah spun around, right into the arms of a girl her own age, who looked at her with great, startled green eyes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my window I have watched a girl with halting steps spread the wet linens on shrubs, rocks, and fences. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The girl took a deep shuddering breath, and realized it was true. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A little girl two pods away coughs too and gags up her own gelatinous lung slug. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The demoness and the demon girl would go to almost any lecturer who was giving a magic lantern show with slides of his travels. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was unhappy about it, imagining the girls and me trying to smile through blowing snow or frigid winds, Barack trying to appear invigorated instead of chilled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What the girls did was to lay the clothes in the water and dance on them until all the dirt was worked out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young girls were always the worst of it, he told himself. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them had some guy standing there rapping and a lot of pretty girls dancing around him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Instead he looked at the girl's face and said, "You swear you'll release her after the battle?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Or girls passed by together, or a mother with a child across her shoulder. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only gift Mrs. Levy asked of the girls was that they attack their father. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was unable to remember what he looked like, although I had just left him a few hours before, but I thought of the Coleman girls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiggles his cravat as if it's too tight around his neck, then smiles at each girl. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the girls really care about football, or if they just act this way to impress their husbands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Boys and girls together, men and women, with arms around each other’s waists. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s short for Frances,” she said, panting, “which is a girl’s name.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It seems the girls have arrived,” says Agent Magnus from up onstage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The frantic thumping of several pairs of feet sounded from the upper level, along with the trumpeted cry of “A girl!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

All I could see of the girl in the pink jacket who’d stood near us in the queue was her arm, waving at the camera above the other people. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked to see who it was, I saw the girl from the playground! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We had three girl second cousins, no boys; their great-grandfather and our grandfather were brothers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a girl standing by the stage holding a clipboard. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the girls remembered our little talk about having Juanita and I “explain” things without giving out too much information. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the laughter, the girls’ feet became entangled and they fell to the ground, Sosie on top of Jennifer, their faces separated by no more than an inch of warm jungle air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Vinnie slammed his sketch pad closed and proceeded to disappear into the darkened rooms of the house with a girl from the audience. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Is that what you call it? You haven't left this room since Bran was hurt. You didn't even come to the gate when Father and the girls went south." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It had seemed to Adina then to be a TV fairy tale: All those pretty girls smiling and waving and showing off their tumbling skills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell then distributed nine pink cards to girls who raised outstretched fingers and mouthed numbers to each other. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the time that the mouth of the cave was half open, the girl realized that it was not her brother who was standing outside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He opened the girl’s mouth and put his fingers inside. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always loved the girl in white, with a hat in her hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful — maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the girls were still checking the reflection of their feces in their cell phone screens, powdering their cheeks, and buttering their lips. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't know how much I loved being everyone's baby girl until now when my life as baby girl is nearly over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I sit at the table with you and those girls, but I don’t say anything. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a thunderstorm. What do you girls do if it rains when you’re gardening?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

If he were a girl, maybe he would have pleaded or whined more. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I let her take my suitcase, this dream girl come to life in front of me, and follow her up to the second floor. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Doc had said that I felt things differently than Jay did because I was a girl. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And yes, I refrained from saying, “Or herself. It could be a girl.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Woof” barked the girl, rolling happily on her back. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Daily I saw young Jewish boys and girls receiving instruction in chemistry and medicine that the average black boy or girl could never receive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hell, a girl who, up until fifteen minutes ago, wouldn’t even look at me, let alone talk to me? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was kind of a celebrity in my neighborhood, the little Japanese girl who said “you all” instead of “you,” and “You don’t sah-eee” instead of “Really?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You girls keep away from the house while your father is working,” she warned as we walked by my sisters having fun. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You drove that girl into running off, Jason,” the sheriff said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl smiled in a way that reminded Jon so much of his little sister that it almost broke his heart. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of all the companions the girl could have chosen, she had picked a candidate. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Coraline could have sworn that the girl had two wings—like dusty silver butterfly wings, not bird wings—coming out of her back. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And, of course, the reaction I got from the little girls in the bungalow was dramatic. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As in: Every guy in the lunchroom is trying to flirt with the new girl because she’s so pulchritudinous. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t like any girl I ever knew, for that matter. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That had been accomplished by the sight of iMilkman’s arms around the shoulders of a girl whose silky copper-colored hair cascaded over the sleeve of his coat. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a hundred girls in the audience, and they were all going crazy over the Shirelles. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one of them, a bold-looking girl with large dark eyes, a prominent chin, and long black hair pushed her way through the door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A girl listening outside the door heard the clink and spread the word. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than that, she weren’t the happy little girl anymore. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The men’s bathroom was like a girls’ except there were three urinals in a row, and only one toilet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls were awake and looking at the courtyard, the well and the two big ambulances in front of the farmhouse, with three drivers at the well. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She grins, then explains, “Louise is planning a girls’ weekend for us. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The little girl did not look at the howling crowd but from the side the whites of her eyes showed like those of a frightened fawn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Harding says he sleeps better at night knowing there are girls like me to invent those satellites.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was trembling, her eyes wide and vague» Her hair was matted with blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No sooner did she think of her dress than one of the housemaids, a short and plain-spoken girl whom everyone called Susan, came by the nursery with a message. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Albert and the girls huddled, no worse for the wear, under the coop. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Three other girls stood with them, including one I remembered falling over in Gym on Friday. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Without a word, but with lips tight and eyes narrowed, the girl and her daemon left and went to bed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, honey. I’m sorry. I’m not your momma. I have these two girls but haven’t had any other children besides them.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Two children disappeared from the farm, a boy and a girl. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Those girls were blessed with the ability to sleep through the stormiest of sidewinders. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So, of course, when the news of the king's visit was heard, all expected the girl to hide the fish. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There are normally twelve girls in the house, counting the old ones, a Greek cook, and a man who is known as a watchman but who undertakes all manner of delicate and dangerous tasks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few nights later, I returned to the pub alone and saw the same girl. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Don’t none of these girls like the way they look? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church gave each dead girl’s family some funds to bury their daughter. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If they sent Lovey back, the girl might be caught sneaking into her cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She found Jaqen soaking in a tub, steam rising around him as a serving girl sluiced hot water over his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A small girl who looks like a gothed-out chipmunk hands me a red plastic cup full of beer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A young girl playing on a cell phone as an older woman massaged the feet of a person I couldn’t see lying in bed, in Room 417. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A group of Candor and Erudite are waiting there, including the blond Divergent woman who got dragged to the elevators by her hair, the girl I helped escape, and Cara. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anna’s mother asked her who the unfamiliar girl was. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“My brothers and I are at your service,” he told the girl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That’s exactly what they were: good girls who wanted to pretend they were bad girls but who never would be bad girls because they were too decent. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The public girl, running for class treasurer and joining the debate club, and the private boy, the sidekick on 7-Eleven runs. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll talk to them about it. If there are any girls who want to come and work, I don’t see why they shouldn’t.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I, a young girl in luto with her father fresh in the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the girl, who hadn’t made a sound. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

What girl in her right mind will look at an ex-White Father with one miserable scrawny shoulder? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Mom,” I whisper as we pick up our cardboard trays and get in line, “are all the girls in college this tall?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“But Al.. “He wanted you to be the small, quiet girl from Abnegation,” Four says softly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You okay, li’l girl? Carlos told me you were in the car with that boy when he was killed.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Who is this girl and what has she done with my sister? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The little girl was sorry for them, and asked an old woman what she should do to help them. ‘Your geese will tell you, they know everything.’ said the old woman. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they waited, a short, red-haired girl about their age in a black velvet dress arrived alone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, they were too tired, and the sisters carried the little boys on their backs until the evening sun began to set and the girls were near collapse. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think every girl is hot,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And an old man, and a young girl. Probably the kid’s sister. I don’t know.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d call us her bee-utiful girls and take us for hot chocolate on Mondays, because Fridays didn’t deserve all the attention. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I liked girls and women, but guys really put me off most of the time. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Krum was at the front of the party, accompanied by a pretty girl in blue robes Harry didn’t know. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Nicole smiled right on cue and watched the other girls relax. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’d had crushes, and most of the people I hung out with at school were girls, but it wouldn’t be right to start up something serious with one of them. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A perk of going to such a big school was that you didn’t stand out as the new girl. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were separate sacks for boys and girls of different ages. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call again, this time looking at the girls as I say it, smiling and narrowing my eyes at them. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She swore that there was an Aleut girl among the hunters. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The white girl never bothered her again, but Joycelyn would always consider the incident a personal defeat, saying, “I felt I should have been stronger; I should have been above that.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The girl looked at me and made a motion with her hands which I took to mean that Rontu was hers. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl with a blue dress brings meals three times a day and never talks to me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was with some worthless girl, a young servant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls would rush at him and Dad would let them topple him over on the rug. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was telling Skid a sure way to a girl’s heart—if she’s anything like me—is to do something selfless for her.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The mother heard this song and ran out of their house to sing back to the girl before she could come in: Go away, you are smelling. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Tata Kuvudundu cast his bone predictions, and nearly every girl in the village had danced with a chicken held to her head, to bring down rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a very small girl with a face as lovely and fresh as her son’s face—a very small girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not cheered by seeing you. I know the mess you’ve gotten this girl into. You’re no cheerful sight to me.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it’s time for this girl to hang up her reporter’s hat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Plus, Anna was the only girl not involved in Lexie’s schemes, which made her brave, too. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Charles had made amends, somewhat, with the Horner girls and their parents, but it would be too awkward to run into them all the time on the block where they lived. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polykaste, a fair girl, Nestor’s youngest, had meanwhile given a bath to Telemakhos—bathing him first, then rubbing him with oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A child of Aphrodite leading a child of Athena! Now I’ve seen everything. How would you defeat me, girl? With makeup and fashion tips?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Long before Joe stood in the drugstore watching a girl buy candy, Violet had stumbled into a crack or two. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And from the other direction, a girl was saying, “But he never pukes when he chugalugs.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t concern yourself with my crazy daughters. Come on, girl. You must be hungry.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then the side door swings open, and the girls of Emoji step into the atrium. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The little girl, Angel, was humming quietly to herself and licking maple syrup from her fingers. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone did see us, we were just two girls, standing in front of an open trunk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many times, to let her mind escape the worries that filled her head until it hurt, she had gone outside with an older girl who liked rocks a lot. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The girl soccer players held their homemade signs with the blank side facing out, as they awaited directions from Beatrice. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl with the backpack was waiting for something, and that was when Barry spotted the boy crouched down, tying his shoe. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Somebody knows what looks good on this girl. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys slightly older were moving on to girls and dating and fitting in with the mores and restrictions of being in their mid teens, which meant, among other things, avoiding associations with younger boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’s on his board Right now and he’s Taunting three girls, His fat tongue Wiggling like a worm From the chipped place In his mouth. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose there’s always Moaning Myrtle,” he said gloomily, referring to the ghost who haunted the girls’ toilets on the second floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That was the kind of thing, she knew, that stuck to a girl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’ll turn to the other men on the train and ask them why aren’t they saying anything, why are they letting a grown man disrespect a girl. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was no different from any of the other girls until someone asked her a question. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after I arrive, the organizers—three excited ladies onstage—introduce each girl, who stands up and smiles and then sits down again. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that the girls and boys played in different parts of the playground. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As she leaned forward to fill her calabashes, the first girl felt her head spinning around. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In awhile my dinner is brought in by the girl in the blue dress who brought me the books. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Turner was death on boys and girls he caught sneaking around the halls together. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, despite everything, I wanted Papito to want me, to feel proud I was his daughter. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day when I got to the alley, the Mexican girls were waiting for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You are not alone, little girl, and neither is your friend. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Unafraid of the girls, One Horn stepped out onto the path and stood alert in the early light, basking a little, warming his coat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

At the shop next door to his, a girl is standing on a milk crate, playing violin. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t recognize her, but the girl stared at him as if she’d seen him in her nightmares. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was prone to loneliness and now also felt fierce about sticking up for the girls’ needs, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Some girl took one point-blank in the face. White girl. She went down and there’s no way she survived it.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“How will I raise a proper girl on my own?” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A brunette girl with a wide smile—a smile you don’t expect to find on someone dying—requests a song and steps away. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cho happened to be sitting only a few places away from the girl with the silvery hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In a small clique of six girls, there was a high probability that we'd all go to the dance. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The little girl was named Laura and she called her father, Pa, and her mother, Ma. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl had a sullen look on her face, and she seemed to be the only person not interested in what was going on at the slave sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked a serving girl next to me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some girls get into the shower right away; some line up by the sink waiting to brush their teeth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

This memory was both happy and sad: happy because it was so pleasant, and sad because it made Penelope think about how much she missed Swanburne—the girls, the teachers, Miss Mortimer. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Who wants to see a big girl eating fries and a burger on a bus? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He calls me every derogatory name a girl could ever be called. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

What could a girl like Julia Bishop possibly need me to do at midnight outside her window? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the girl walked ahead of him he checked to see, and he was right. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once the noise faded, Judy Treankler, one of the most popular girls in our class, stepped forward and introduced her skit. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

One of Dora’s girls comes home from a call on a patron too wealthy or too sick to visit the Bear Flag. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was filled with something vaguely resembling hope when he walked in and spotted a pretty, brown-haired girl in the third row with an empty seat next to her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He had never heard of a man named Brooke but could relate to it being a girl’s name because Genie was a girl’s name too. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

‘It was so mixed up at the end.’The girl seemed to be trying to explain her error more to herself than to Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl increased the angle between the receiver and her ear. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I know that fat girls are supposed to be allergic to pools or whatever, but I love swimming. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“There’s no reason this girl needs to tell the world far and wide that she’s a Catholic.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The TV musical The Cheetah Girls, about four girls in a band at a performing arts high school in New York City, had just come out. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The voice—a girl’s—came out of the air above us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"You are not going to work! The tensions are high now!" the mom shouts back, and the little girl starts crying. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think the girl’s father played it quite fair, Grandpa, do you?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

One girl, an eighth grader who played the piano, was shaking so hard she had to start four times. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Petyr has been bringing me reports. He told me of your troubles with Arya and the young prince. How are my girls?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone assumed the popular girl had a million friends and a family who supported her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The girls—the women—hop up and down and squeal, “I can’t believe it’s really happening!” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m scrubbing down the counter as two guys and a girl walk in. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And after them came a line of black girls, old, fat, dressed in ragged gingham, walking loosely, carrying tin cans of soap powder, rags, mops, brooms ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, but with great care, the girl placed her bundle in my hollow. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Did I run from a man who wants to sell me, into the arms of a girl who's going to sell the secret of my hiding place? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On hotel stationery Callie had proclaimed, “I am not a girl.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He never liked to brag, but I could tell he was proud that he had taken on four bigger, tougher kids, even if they were girls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crone and the girl on the shield gave up the chase at three thousand, but not the fat man in yellow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you seem like a smart girl.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no," said the first girl, "it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There's enough fire in that girl's soul for two people. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go check on the girls. We’ll be off the ground in a jiffy. We’ll do some flyovers and see what we see.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of girls from cooking club wave frantically to Mama. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One of the girls gave an unwilling giggle. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Those things did not involve falling for a highly controversial Middle Eastern girl in a headscarf. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I really wanted not to like this girl, but was failing miserably. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen and pulled down the school directory, scanning the names of all the third-grade girls from last year. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“But he has also said that you never hit a girl. And so I had to weigh the two. I just...” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Shanna heads off in a different direction with the girl who usually flies for Britain, and the three people who came in another car are already in line for the Tilt-a-Whirl. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The butterfly dipped up and down, and its black-spotted yellow wings flapped slowly, as if teasing the little girl. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s husband went off to fetch the midwife, leaving me with the sweating girl. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hear that a girl in your class is being abused by her stepfather and had to go to the clinic? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

At recess that day, all three of them managed to find an excuse to stand close to the invisible line that, by unspoken agreement, divided the girls’ side of the yard from the boys’. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, I packed the girls’ lunch boxes with Lunchables and Capri Suns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But I knew the rule: Cool guys get girls, and funny guys get to hang out with the cool guys with their girls. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s a painting by Mr. Norman Rockwell,” Stella’s mother told the girls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The girls he’d grown up with in Shaker—and the boys, too, for that matter—seemed so purposeful: they were so ambitious; they were so confident; they were so certain about everything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He never answered when I asked, “Suppose I’m fighting a girl?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus jerks forward, and she gives a little screech of laughter that’s echoed by the other two girls. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked back to see Deidre Baker, her two sisters, and another girl I didn’t recognize. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The girls grew up as lovely as the day was long. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And he had always thought her a skinny, plain girl. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls look at me and scamper away from each other. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a bunch of people who were clustered around a redheaded boy and a girl in braids who sat on the couch across from each other, sketch pads poised on their laps. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If a forager boy wanted to take a forager girl to a romantic spot, did the shade of a walnut tree suffice? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have some men arrange the tables into long rows, and everyone helps make piles of clothes: women's, men's, boys' and girls'. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Did little girls have to be as good as that?” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what most amazed us about him was his marriage to a Xhosa girl from Umtata. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell in love at The Mecca one last time, lost my balance and all my boyhood confusion, under the spell of a girl from Chicago. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When the lunch bell sounded, Shirley raced to be the first in line and waited impatiently for the new girl. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In our book, the goddess of crops and the earth had a sad mouth and flowers around her, just like the girl in the locket. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is that okay to say to a girl? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Afterward the wine was done and so was he, so he wadded up the girl’s clothing and tossed it at the door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The student who is not a girl and the professor who is not a man are considered strange; the first has an unfortunate skin condition, the second a nervous stammer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could respond, however, there was a disturbance outside their compartment door; a group of fourth-year girls was whispering and giggling together on the other side of the glass. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

So my father came up with a compromise: The older girls would enter through a different gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The hysteria has gotten so intense here that a Muslim girl was sent home for wearing a black veil over her hair. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few older girls drifted over to watch the fun. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The girls were quiet, waiting for him to speak again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In a deft maneuver Cora tugged off a crispy ear, Molly’s favorite, and presented it to the girl. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That Big Rose was a weird girl too, I thought. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You’re a traitor to your gens, girl,” Grandfather says, the only man in the Empire brave enough to refer to my mother as a girl. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the other boys and girls laughed and pointed at me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a girl, you fool,” the tall one growled as he jumped to his feet. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl is coming by and by,” she said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Walter’s going to give you a bloody nose,” a girl said. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was sweating lightly as he moved to the girls’ room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, from the school bus windows, she would see other wild girls on the edges of the cornfields, running without shoes, hair unkempt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was drinking her lemonade through a straw, daintily like a girl, trying to make the sweet pleasure last. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I know why my religious brother would want to visit a girl’s parents. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A young girl finally noticed Ingrid and brought her to my attention. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She knew the African girl was probably admiring her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the snapshot of the girl on the bike followed me, a haunting thing of beauty I knew would break around the next bend, sure as a glass slipping from my hand. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

From behind the desk a grave-faced girl in a business suit gave me my key and told me that the old library had been booked for the exclusive use of our party. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, the girl's backpack drops to the floor and three cassettes go clattering onto the floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all, it’s not every day you get into Yale. We’ll have some fun girl time.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to hit you if you don’t stop. Bad girl! Stop!” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the new girl in fourth grade. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the adults had said it would be best for me to watch my manners and be a good girl—in following God's will and obeying His rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She said no one would want a girl with scarred-up legs. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I looked at the young woman standing in front of a building holding a little girl in her arms. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The little girl walks up to her sister so they’re both facing me. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was weird, having the other girls agree with me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I thought about chasing after her, but she’d dig into me about the fat girl needing protection and I didn’t have time for that. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His mother, when she had him, was only seventeen—a thin-blooded, capricious girl with red hair and a rich daddy, who ran off with the drummer for Vance Vane and his Musical Swains. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I draw a thousand fairies circling around a girl so that she can finally fly away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I walked down the stairs and into the lot and found the girl's plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I mentioned this to the girls, who were nine and five at the time, they were not happy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So that leaves Cato and the girl from District 2, who are now surely celebrating the new rule. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pull out the one I made for her, with the guy and girl connected by the bridge, and write my phone number on the back of it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Before Harry could say or do anything, she tucked the enormous book under her arm, and, still sobbing, ran toward the staircase to the girls’ dormitories and out of sight. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Look like it weren’t His will. Look like I couldn’t nohow forget...how they done me way back there when I weren’t nothing but a girl.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, a girl bends to pick up a round greenish-black patty from the ground and puts it in her bag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she put on her red jersey, the coach scanned the class to pick Team B’s captain, his eyes settling on me, even though I was one of the least athletic girls. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t I that girl who came to the jail last week to see one of the colored boys? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Goblin-made armor does not require cleaning, simple girl. Goblins’ silver repels mundane dirt, imbibing only that which strengthens it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My wife — Helen, you remember — is asset. Also I have two little girls.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cloth must be sturdy and inexpensive—that’s the only kind that makes sense for a ..She pauses. “A nine-year-old girl.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every girl in the bathroom looked up, wide-eyed, at the intrusion. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Sam!” the little girl shouted, and we all looked up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On that particular afternoon, the girls had built a dungeon out of cardboard boxes in the corner of the storage yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I work with adolescent and teenage girls every day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Get up,” said Ida Nee to the girl in the pink dress. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Since when,” asked Matthew, his eyes flashing, “do you lock up a girl for disobedience? That is for me to settle.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He stationed himself across from the girls’ room. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is a habit of hers from their childhood to buy rainbow clothes for herself so none of the girls can accuse her of playing favorites. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not the normal things a girl my age worries about. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had never heard her girl name out loud before, and now Kelly had made it into a song. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This one girl, Marisol Wood, a sophomore who was by Facebook consensus the prettiest girl in her class, hung back. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

That girl from the back of the classroom—Susie—stood in front of me holding a tray of cafeteria food. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Ophie did not know how to get the ghost to leave the girl, and clearly the realization about her murder had only made her stronger. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Outraged, Victor bellowed back at them, holding his arms above his head, but the girl kept screaming and the ladies kept thrashing and the dog Kept growling, sinking its teeth into Victor's jacket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was definitely a daddy's girl, and he was definitely a daughter's dad. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You want us to jump off a ledge?” asks an Erudite girl. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I understand all that. Yes, I do. But your baby girl is here and she is just fine and she is waiting for you.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was a part of that secret fire which came out in fighting, taking chances— and dancing with girls! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll have you know that I'm married to a fine, intelligent Negro girl," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I knew I liked girls, but was this not a ‘Let me see what this is like in comparison’ type thing? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The girls ran around, taunting the poor woman. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watches the video as the girls and I watch him, but it’s hard to figure out what he’s thinking. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Their role was symptomatic of the role all girls played at Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only an afternoon’s amusement, a horse girl with a curious pet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The girl with thick lips put out her tongue again at us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then, I tried to ask her advice about how to treat a girl on a date since I’ve never had a date before, but she wouldn’t answer. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened and a woman dressed in a plain, homemade-looking dress and two children—a boy and a girl—stepped out. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He sat down next to a baobab tree near the girl’s house and began stripping off the bark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to Ronny, a girl named Donna was balled up in a lump on one end of the couch. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a girl a few years older than Hazel sitting on a tree stump next to the big path. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Contrary to the victim's last wishes, she baptized the girl with the name of Remedios. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There’s a whole crowd of Muhammad’s friends hanging out there, guys with fledgling beards and girls with poufy hijabs, supposedly gender separated but, really, getting chatty with one another. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He’s attached a picture of a girl wearing what appears to be a helmet cut out of a soccer ball. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Hang on to those; I’ll read the rest when we gets back to the hotel. Maybe our Mr. Shake-a-Spear’ll tell where them twin girls is.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I was the only Black girl on the team, and three games into the season, we had a match against the Birchville Bruisers. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The lovely girl had turned into a steely-eyed businesswoman checking, adding the profits of her grades. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when the baby napped, there were soiled diapers to scrub and leave to soak in a pail of the disinfectant that the girl had insisted Rasheed buy for her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was also thoroughly embarrassed by the attention, the fuss being made in front of his boss and two colleagues and the other girl too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I can’t believe it—,” said the girl next to him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls I knew couldn’t play ball, and that excluded them from most of what I wanted to do with my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She offered the other girls each a twig. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her faded eyes studied the girl beside her, and now there was nothing childlike in that wise, kindly gaze. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She made a bubble and hardened the bubble into a cocoon around the girl—adding bright threads winding around and around. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be foolish. You’re just a bit of a girl and have trouble enough with the one you do be having already. And your man is pretty but not the steadiest boy in the world.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when everything was so perfect and peaceful, an argument sprang up between the two oldest girls. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was there that the spirits would get their first look at the girl who could see the dead walking arm in arm with a dead girl determined to live once more. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Much to his unhappiness, thirteen of his children were girls, leaving my uncle and his precious son, Usman, the child of his first wife, as the only males in the household. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“None of the girls in the sixth grade believe that Ben’s on the team. They say they never heard of him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think you can defeat me, girl?” she shrieked. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Angelina had taken the girls to church, as she did every Sunday. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her captor - a teen girl in grey camouflage - lay dazed on the floor, a knife at her belt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And he almost hated to think about leaving the weird new girl at the back of the bus by herself. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She was talking with Doris and a few other girls who were on the decorations committee for the dance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He would not have been the first father to dispose of an unwanted girl child, the Shavepate claimed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was very much against this for the simple reason that I was still inept with knife and fork, and I did not want to embarrass myself in front of these sharp-eyed girls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her girls all looked at each other, then at me, then back at their leader. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Francie felt that Sissy understood how it was with little girls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the words they sing describe images of blood and war, the girls smile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All persons are forewarned of harboring said girl, under penalty of law prescribed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Luna, stop,” Xan said, putting a simple blocking spell on the girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The girl gives a sharp squeal and scoots her chair backward again, harder. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said the lady, “this doll is named Mary after the kind little girl who is giving her away.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Martin went upstairs to help the girl it was not in the same way her father had gone upstairs, but both men came down transformed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Do they have to include the new girl who walks funny in their break plans? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Who will stop him?” the other girls said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A whisper as I go up to answer a question on the whiteboard: “Look at that. I can’t believe they let the only two girls in school without any booty into this class.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Not knowing how, I find the girl’s house. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He lifted his shirt to wipe the sweat off his face, giving me, along with every other girl present, a glimpse of skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, it seems rumor has already suggested that. I overheard a girl saying that the Crown Prince brought me here to woo me. I thought the entire court knew about this stupid competition.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time now since he’d been close to a girl, more than a month. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The irony being that the seniors thought they were actually saving the girls from being too exploited. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even the girl sitting on the couch next to him—with her perfect side braid and about five layers of lip gloss—gets lost to the blur that surrounds him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Did you enjoy the girl I sent you?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a Cealdish boy with lace on his shirt, a little girl with bare feet, and myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a moral wrong for girls to wear lipstick or sun-backed dresses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“A girl does not need to flaunt her beauty to the world,” her mother had told her many times. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

What we didn’t know was that he would go much further in his campaign against girls’ schools in the days ahead. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And for some reason, he kept thinking of the girl. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the girl; it looked like she was starting to cry. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“These the girls the mayor wired me about?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The face of the redheaded girl intertwines with gory images from earlier Hunger Games, with my mother withdrawn and unreachable, with Prim emaciated and terrified. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why you don’t. You have that nice girl over there ready to fall in love with you all over again. Quit moping. You’ll see.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo immediately made for the big staircase, but the girl gently held him back and pointed toward a stone bench at the bottom of the stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three girls had one room at the hotel, and the three of us boys had another room. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked a young girl in the corridor to move. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He expected Trina to comfort the girl, but she did nothing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We’re standing just in front of the store when two black teenage girls walk out laughing with each other. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"It's 1999, and we're in America, not India or Somalia. Women's bodies are beautiful, and I never want Carver girls to be ashamed of them." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anne decided that she could never get Dad’s permission to dress like the other girls in her class, and that it was up to her to take matters into her own hands. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a house girl’s tender physique and shrank further in her simpering. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It felt a little weird helping Hazel make a portrait of Calypso - as if he were talking to a police artist: Yes, officer, that’s the girl who stole my heart! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to go downstairs and demonstrate to my exacting great-aunt what a gifted girl I was, how it would take no effort at all for me to become her star student. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I ran out with some other girls and Sister Claire to see the commotion. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Digory had looked at the wood for a long time he noticed that there was a girl lying on her back at the foot of a tree a few yards away. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t cry, my brave girl! We are all here together now!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the first Sunday in May 2011, I went to dinner with two friends at a restaurant downtown, leaving Barack and my mother in charge of the girls at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Just set everything on the big table outside, girls, and thank you kindly,” Stella’s mother sang out. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t hear Kaori and Gen calling out, “Virgil! Virgil!” and then a third voice—a girl’s—that sounded like a voice he knew, but it couldn’t be. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I shake my head at the girl, but I was feeling a chuckle somewheres. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And Julia seemed so worldly to me, like the kind of girl who would think that sex was a perfectly reasonable gift to give a kid when he turned seventeen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s every girl’s dream to be rescued from someone’s pet Pig-” “I’m serious.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My beautiful girl,” he says to me as his lips quiver into a small smile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother spread her arms in all directions to show how pretty and pale and blue-eyed the girl was. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But as they were approaching, the two girls happened to wake up. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The serving girl placed the tray between them, and Pycelle gave her a smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then she did something special for me: she helped me apply to a private Catholic girls’ school, Our Lady of Mercy, for the eighth grade. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The boys all treated the assignment like it was a big goof and most of the girls weren’t too excited about it, either. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can’t even face me? Sends a little girl to give me the boot? Maybe I’ll just shake a few coins out of you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He is halfway home when he realizes he never told the girl his name. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I can get you a girl to go with you to the dance,” he said. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But what about Mom? Isn’t Mom your special girl?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Still, as bearers of the de la Torre name, the girls were made to feel important. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Have you given up the whole `girl on fire' thing?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

You’re not supposed to be pouring iodine on girls like that. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled my pillow and blanket out into the hall whenever the Rosenblum girls were arguing, which seemed like all the time now. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I told her I think I’m a girl.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Blake and Josh have been supportive and have helped me through the times when a girl needs big brothers. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

October 5, 1957, was the kind of day that never failed to delight Christine Mann, a rising senior at the Allen School for girls in Asheville, North Carolina. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The girl looked half a child beside him, but she faced him boldly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"We were hoping the Larsen grant would cover a new girls' locker room, but Martin never comes in here. Maybe I should let him know how hideous it is." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It turns you sentimental; it makes you want to hook up with girls like Mary Hopkin. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate that it chokes me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This girl has a message, sir. Claims it must be delivered in person.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do girls think like this all the time? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are a dozen of us in the room, with our hopeful, almost-new Bristol drawing boards and our black- tipped fingers; two older women, pight young men, another girl my own age, and me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was put a white girl anywhere close to the average black man, and he would respond. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boys sometimes show that they like girls in strange ways. When I was your age, boys showed interest in girls by ignoring them or treating them badly.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was at the game! The girl at the end of my row was covered in broken glass!” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, the little girl was on the step. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“So far Caleb and I are the only members, but given how easy it is to get on that girl’s bad side, I’m sure our numbers will grow.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I know you had feelings for that girl, yet you did what needed to be done, and more.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And finally, this girl gave me, free of charge, instructions for changing my circumstances. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so it seemed natural enough, after a while, that the girls would help more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without seeming to, Will was memorizing the exact layout of the cave: the shape and size of every rock, the slope of the floor, the exact height of the ceiling above the sleeping girl. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t understand why Apa thinks boys and girls cannot be treated the same. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, precious,” Xan said, letting her hand slide along the curve of the girl’s skull, winding her fingers in the long black curls. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I opened the door with a cold hand, bumping into the girl who had been at the table when we went inside. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t like girls,” Cabot said in a serious manner. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Both the girl and the boy were making urgent wishes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was waiting for the “psee” cry of baby falcons, or the “good girl, help yourself” words from Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and picture the girl inside my mind like a small statue. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I guess, it’s just women are so, um...well, you guys—not guys, your people, girls—are very enigmatic.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Next to him stood a younger girl, about my age, with a sharp jaw and straight brown hair. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hermione cast the merrily dancing flames a dark look, and Harry distinctly heard her mutter “Slave labor,” before bidding them good night and disappearing through the doorway to the girls’ dormitory. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The squat ghost of a girl had glided over. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“He’ll need it, the skinny little shrimp!” a girl said, laughing. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girls were shrieking and the boys were physically attacking each other. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Citra was not a girl who could endure being in the dark for long. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Ekon was caught off guard by the pang of pity he felt for the girl. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"Matilda is a very lucky girl. She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers. Was it your mother, Matilda, who taught you?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She took her way to a painted bedchamber where a young girl lay fast asleep—so fine in mould and feature that she seemed a goddess— the daughter of Alkinoos, Nausikaa. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rolled the huge stone to one side and said, ‘Peep out over there, little girl, and tell me what you is seeing.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Hunters scattered as tiny holes appeared in the snow at their feet, but the girl with auburn hair just looked up calmly at the helicopter. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could scold them a little, but I could no more have whipped one of them than I could have kissed a girl. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Maddy, who had now climbed back in the backseat, also put two fingers up, but held them up to the window at Becca and the girls—a peace sign. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

You are the girl who was once afraid to read aloud in class, afraid to spend the night away from your mother, and now these girls are following you. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The girl did not smile, but inside she was pleased. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The girls sat in the sand, sapped of all energy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There were other guys in there, too, and one girl. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started jiggling her foot again--boy, she was a nervous girl. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, I’m living like a normal teenage girl, making up for the years that were stolen from me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars were still cruising, guys with their Saturday night girls, guys looking for Saturday night girls. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which made her feel like the dumbest, weakest girl. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She was a nice girl, a year older than Nok but two levels below her in training. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s that trashy Eubanks woman trying to get her girl back. I hope she does! I hope she takes her home and sticks her down the well!” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl went up to one of the burnt-out torches and touched its charred head. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The girl at the next table had turned partly round and was looking at him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I tell myself, that’s what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl’s front yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On Thursdays kitchen girls and garden boys, dressed in their Sunday best, continued coming to the townships to spend their day off with their families and friends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I get a white girl to love me?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls went out with torches in their hands, swift at their work of bedmaking; returning they whispered at the lord Odysseus’ shoulder: “Sir, you may come; your bed has been prepared.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first day that she spent at Kumalo's house, people came from all the nearby hills to look at the beautiful girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"Do you imagine you can pass for a girl with that voice? It sounds as though Julian squeezed the last drop of sweetness from it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Renly was one-and-twenty, the girl no older than Robb, very pretty, with a doe's soft eyes and a mane of curling brown hair that fell about her shoulders in lazy ringlets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That little girl down the road said I’m her sister.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I weren't an atheist, God wouldn't have punished me by having one of the most popular girls in school walk into Photo Drive-Up at the very moment my picture was being taken. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Did you ever see that painting, Grandmamma, with the little girl in it?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, bring it. Can you call any girls?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Fiona gave the girls two simple dresses, one of blue calico and the other of brown flannel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You rogue! You traitor! Jo, how could you?” cried the three girls, as Snodgrass led her friend triumphantly forth, and producing both a chair and a badge, installed him in a jiffy. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third woman grabbed Anya in a hug and kissed her a few times before releasing her, and the two younger girls slid up beside Anya while the older women talked around them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was mostly guys stomping, cheering, hooting, thundering through the room, but some of the girls joined in too. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes two girls from next door would come over to play with me, named Mary Nell and Mary Roan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the dim light from a very low-powered anbaric bulb over the doorway she saw three other girls clustered around her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No. There was no devil inside of Nathan. There is no devil inside of this girl. There is only me.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Startled, I compared Madame Crommelynck with the girl in the photo. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And so she asked Mrs. Morales if she would arrange a meeting between herself and the girl, Angela. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently now, she prods Minou, “Tell me what the girls had to say today?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dunno. He always talked about other girls, not me. It’s weird though. I thought I was over my crush, but sometimes I don’t know.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“And we all think your girls’ high school is a blasphemy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He has taped a picture of a doe-eyed little girl to his beeper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, I saw the girl put it there. After she took our book,” Clyde said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A little girl was walking toward them from the direction of the dead. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the Imada girls began to whimper, covering her face with her hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every girl in the big room stares in envy. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Just a girl waiting for the next part of her life to start. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Right above the little poetry section, there was a poster of a girl named Emily Dickinson in an old-fashioned dress with her hair coiled in a bun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A Lee cousin primped up slightly wilted heads of lettuce the way a girl primps a loose finger wave. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would say them like a catechism, like the girls used to tease and recite “the commandments” of their house arrest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained her situation: how she couldn’t work because of her health, why she lacked a hundred dollars for rent, about all the things her two girls needed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

George leaned against the chain-link fence, watching some girls from her class jump rope. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

So I gave a big smile and shouted, “What a lucky girl I am. I’m going to have the best life.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, girl,” Jay says, but her glare is set on Pooh. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A chipmunk, tamed by the little girls, sat on Eiras hand nibbling at the seeds they gave to it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Atal yelled that he would rather walk home than sit with girls. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Down there, hangin’ out with some girl named Tess,” Genie told her, sucking in air as Grandma proceeded to march them back to the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“A girl named Crow. If he comes back.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I tell myself that the guys being wowed and the girls being revolted is better than the other way around, but both extremes are a little much. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They wished her luck, and moments later the girls were gone. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d only ever seen one black person, a little girl, the adoptive daughter of a family at church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every person in the living room, guy or girl, spooked and backing away, silent. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the two had managed to get the basket into the room, the girl stretched her back and turned around, facing them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls get up and dance with each other and the boys group tighdy together. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl used the bread to sop up some of the bacon grease the trout had been fried in. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a little Oriental girl, with a trowel and a plastic bag of lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this one girl, a couple of years ago, that was even crumbier than I was. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Our school has never sent a girl to compete for the scholarship.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

One teenage girl at Hangyoreh School gargled with liquid fabric softener, mistaking it for mouthwash. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Thanks ever so much,” said Kate, already tying the rope around the smaller girl’s waist. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lily had said she’d take care of the Baker girls, but I never could picture how that would happen and I never felt so, so...I didn't know a word for it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Both Jeromes were in the pool now, each with a tenth-grade girl on his shoulders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Had she found happiness, that tiny pixie of a girl with her beautiful braided hair? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A girl with two braids tied with ribbons sat at a desk in a reception area with a patchwork sofa and a coffee table scattered with magazines. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The girl was pretty, with her long dark hair and strappy red dress and all her body parts. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Anytime the girls and I came to visit, we didn’t even pretend to want to stay there, booking a hotel room for the four of us instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m just a little girl. Who cares about a little girl?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They finished just as the girls made their appearance in the ceiling. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl in her Sunday dress and patent shoes selects shells along the shore, filling her limitless pockets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One boy and one girl have hair the color of wheat waving in the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I decided to have a campout. For my girl. Just the two of us.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I raise my eyes up to the girl’s and she steps back from the force of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Now look. Your brother is home and I expect you to behave like a good sister. I don’t want you leaving until you’ve had a nice long visit with this girl.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But this girl waded right in and hit him between the eyes with her words and ways. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer had been looking at the girl’s black eyes, but Pima was right. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This must be a great group of friends you’ve met here, Karen. They sound like real nice girls. What are their names?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as she began to talk about her newest attempt to chat up some cute girl in her gym class, the thought Moss had shoved away came back to haunt him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Uncle Wilson, Alfred, and the four girls dug in, but Pearl and Dorothy, acting as if they didn't talk on the phone at least twice a week, chattered away, picking daintily at their food. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight sometime, he thought as he clicked off the bedside light, I will retire a Nexus-6 which looks exactly like this naked girl. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Miss Eliott is a very sweet girl, and seemed to enjoy herself, I thought,” observed Beth, with unusual warmth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also hoped she was right about, y’know, cooking being a way to get girls. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Magdalena doesn’t say much about herself, but she has a little girl, too, and so we are always talking about our daughters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could show Ess the storehouse and book cabin later, but she figured the girl might need the wishing cabin right away. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jesus, Park thought, only Mr. Stessman would make a chubby girl read a poem about eating on her first day of class. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A short time later the laundry girl’s mother parked across the lot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my fault that I don’t have more, cariño. I was just a little girl when...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He shivered and shuddered and she tucked him into herself, though she was a very small girl. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“In on it? Little girl, I masterminded it.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hearing those words, the boys and girls erupted into cheers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we go downtown, we go to the fabric store, where the white woman knows my grandmother from back in Anderson, asks, How's Gunnar doing and your girls in New York? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She helped the other girls keep their rooms clean. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The little girls in the audience smiled up at her and some of the boys who were approaching adolescence whistled shrilly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Young girls should be an ornament to the eye, not an ache in the ear.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The girl could not believe that the family would be leaving the place where they had lived for so long and of which she felt so fond. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"I need to be the most beautiful girl at my party." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“All right, boys and girls. Let’s get the scavenge off. I don’t want to share too much with Lucky Strike. Everything light and valuable, off the ship.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was still a hoyden girl of fourteen in spite of her womanly status. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an easygoing girl, “everybody’s sweetheart”—rather too much everybody’s, for she was partial to men, though somehow she hadn’t much luck with them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned, but it was just a statue of a young girl holding an Easter basket. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It fascinates me to see the Youns courting girls in public, for in the Khmer culture these things are done in secret. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew, and Laura knew, that she couldn’t match the veteran showtime girls, but she told me that she wanted to compete. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl knew it was useless to argue. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’m probably bleeding from where first Aaron hit me and then the girl, so I take the pad and rub it over my eye and eyebrow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The girl springs out of Oscar’s lap like a crazed cat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time . . . until he noticed that the room was growing darker. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Meantime, I had met a girl and fallen in love. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl squints, her sleepy eyes going back and forth between me and Bertha. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Or, “Quiet down, girls, your mother is drinking tea.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Priest to-day with girls,” the captain said looking at the priest and at me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the girls are pulling on their boots and heading out the door, so I hurriedly do the same. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“He has no business being here today. What does he want to do? Ruin that poor girl’s day?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The villagers were now looking away from the little girl and her family. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I watched two girls in Mr. Porter’s class recite a version before the bell rang. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A girl her age might let her hair grow long, add inches to her height, see her chest fill out, but she could not change the color of her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Watch your words, man. The girl has admitted to being a friend to the witch. And there is a complaint against her, made according to law and signed.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred helped Aunt Pearl open the couch and put the girls to sleep. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a tinkling sound: it was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was stuck under all sorts of junk, a wealth of sea chests and the big four-poster bed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After a lot of very polite and very boring questions and answers about Amish life one of the Amish girls led us the rest of the way down the hall into a huge kitchen. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few women and girls her age were out walking. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She then explained about all the things you have to go through to prove it, especially in high school when the boy and girl are popular and still in love. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Off to my opposite side was a woman, black, young—just a girl, really—with her dress tom down the front. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that the girl you told us about? The one who went mad?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She looked for another pair of eyes and told him also, “My baby girl.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When had this gap-toothed little girl turned into that sad woman in her dark bedroom in Raleigh? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Momma would even make the girls be nice to him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We left the fruit on the floor in a shady corner of the room, near a girl with cropped blond hair and a midriff-baring black shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was just a girl, after all, so how could I possibly survive? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I pointed at the Amish girls and they began to giggle and cover their mouths. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For a pretty girl like you? Sure I could.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A menace from the dead girl hung over her father in this hour of triumph. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a girl who had a dragon for a friend. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I am a simple girl. No one ever understood it except you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot go angry black girl on her. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I befriended other teenagers in the camp, including a pretty Hungarian girl my age. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her parents, Sicilians lately come over from the other side, had shut up the girl in a dark room so that the neighbors could not see her shame increase. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other girls headed off to the locker room with promises they would keep calling her until she called them back. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He takes one last look at the girl and the boy before closing the door. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ama, the herdsman’s daughter, carried the image of the sleeping girl in her memory: she could not stop thinking about her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The girl looked back and forth at us, still deciding if she wanted to stay. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Probably the busiest time the girls of the Bear Flag ever had was the March of the big sardine catch. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a certain age, maybe nine or so, Bengali girls are never seen naked by others, not even by friends. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girls must have realized it also because they stopped praise dancing—Fern reacting to Vonetta, whose face stiffened with recognition. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“He was trying to drop it on that girl. Lexi didn’t have anything to do with it—she was just reacting.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The other girls talked endlessly among themselves about who still had their cherry and how far they would let their boyfriend go. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He always put Obinze’s name up for the outside work that paid better, always asked if he wanted to work weekends, which was double time, always asked about girls. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the secret ballots were counted, Emily won by a single vote, there being exactly one more girl than boy in the sixth grade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And he blinds the girls he does not take.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There's a difference between pretty black girls and pretty white girls? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All the guys like all the made-up, permed hair, easy, trendy girls. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A girl with chopped-short hair and a sharp black gaze climbed out after them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The look of total horror on the girl’s face when she first saw me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was a real girl, with two parents and one house and no blades flashing, breakfast was granola topped with fresh strawberries, always eaten while reading a book propped up on the fruit bowl. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Starting fights and jacking beers from the bodega across town and messing with mad girls. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nimue, though scatterbrained and unpunctual, was a good girl in her way. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the girls have an elaborate system of body clues by which they can tell what kind of a man you’re suited for. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly saw the Polish girl at my side and raised an eyebrow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She said that with a girl like Mary Elizabeth, you shouldn’t tell her she looks pretty. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the big girl turned her back, bent down and put her hands flat on the ground— she didn’t pick up anything. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See? Your little girl with the cut-up face just left it.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Talking to girls wasn’t that easy for me either, and now I told myself that if I saw Renee again, I would take a shot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The second girl was not nearly as strong as her sister. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"Septa Mordane says most . . . most highborn girls have their flowering at twelve or thirteen." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dogs beside the men’s legs wait, looking up from time to time, and the girl who brings the food from the stove stands looking at the wall as she waits for the plates to empty. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She almost added even though I’m a girl, but decided against it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I once read an English story where a little girl got a big pink cake and presents wrapped in shiny paper and bows for her birthday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She rolled down the window, smiled, and said, “Hello, girls.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl lay on her side, her tangled hair covering her face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The accused orphan girl Kira is here!” the door guard announced, and the muttering subsided. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if Jackson had kissed another girl in the same movie theater by now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that when she and her cousin were young, they walked by the harness shop one day and chanced to hear an old man say what nice girls they were. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The newborn baby girl is abandoned in a forest. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The girl jumped down from the ledge and came over to me and touched it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a beautiful girl to my left, another to my right. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So unbecoming in a girl,” Mrs. Byrne says under her breath. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, however, once we had finished interviewing the girl, Miss Kenton began to insist we take her on. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He did not care that I wore clothes I made for myself in home economics class, cotton print shirtwaists with crooked zippers and skirts hanging below my knees, outfits only the Pentecostal girls wore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother and the girl have looked happy when I’ve watched them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Missing settled over the girls like a sudden coat of snow shaken loose from an awning, and they moved forward on autopilot, dazed smiles in place, and stated their names and representative states. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A teenage girl with long dark wavy hair poked her head inside the door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I put in my contact lenses and get changed early, and then I sit around in the girls’ dressing room waiting for Abby. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

"It was one fight. He was sticking up for some girl the kids pick on." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know. You don’t know what? That you’re going to the dance or that you like girls? You taking your boyfriend, Dillard Early the Serpent Prince, to the dance?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Counselors are coming up and down the lines introducing themselves; the girls seem to know all of them too. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought someone had died in our family until I noticed Minerva eye- balling me as if to say, watch what you say, girl. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, a girl at the next table over shouts, “Command!” and we all turn to see who got caught. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Having heard Imani’s scream, other girls are surrounding us, looking shocked, everyone talking at once. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The crying girl looked to be ten or eleven. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two guys are on the floor in front of her, playing a video game, and she’s surrounded by white girls who all have red plastic cups in their hands. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was excited, and at the same time uneasy: maybe the girl had already forgotten him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wondering about why I didn’t like girls in the way Darrell liked them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

One of the girls in the front row raises her hand. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

When we were learning about chemistry, one girl stopped the class to ask a question. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Poor fellow! The girls he dates are monsters, just terrible." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time the girl was puttering around in the kitchen when Cora kicked the pot against the wall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Of all the stone-throwers, not one had dared to speak a word for the girl for fear that she would be tarred with Joanna’s brush. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t mad because Gigi likes girls. I wasn’t. I’m not.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pri is a little different—the edge in her voice is gone as if she is smoothing out everything about herself to impress this girl. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Against all logic, he continued to hope that sooner or later the quiet, awkward little girl who glided through his house would display the Frenchman’s elegant manners and refined charms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m holding hands with the girls next to me, and we squeeze each other’s sweaty hands. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the three girls started to talk about their feelings about being touched, things suddenly got serious. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This time, I lingered out by the bar, and then, when the flapper girl grabbed me, I joined her dancing in the mosh pit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl is murmuring something I can’t hear over the ringing of the hammer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Little girls waltzed with each other, round and round on the warm summer sidewalks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the USSR, by 1935 there were about 150 flying clubs that provided aviation tuition to any teenage girl or boy who was a Komsomol member. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I needed to get outside now, before the girls rushed headlong into another nightmare brought on by a lack of caution. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Too late, the girl looked up just as the snake opened wide and swallowed her down in a giant gulp. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She admired the older girl Hortensia to distraction for the daring deeds she had performed in the school. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked and Penelope and Cicely, Mrs. Holton’s girls, looked up at me from where they were playing on the floor. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The second group was comprised of ten of the silliest girls Harry had ever encountered, who, when he blew his whistle, merely fell about giggling and clutching one another. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was no longer any fun without Rob’s silliness and Andy’s teasing competition with Rob for points, for food, even for girls. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always telling us about a lot of creepy guys that go around having affairs with sheep, and guys that go around with girls' pants sewed in the lining of their hats and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Crazy Mary was a large girl and had a big black mole on her face, which is a sign of fortune. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My boy grew into a man, my girl into her long, slender body like the blossoming mimosa at the end of the drive. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now a girl had been born into his house as well. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Of course this was long before the compensations for being a girl were apparent to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spin around to face a girl who looks about my age. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z