When first-graders Nick, Jamie, and Reza refuse to let Emma join their soccer game just because she is a girl, Emma and her father devise a plan to teach the boys a lesson.

John Hercules is worried about being the only boy in his kindergarten class, but after the first week he stops worrying.

Jacob, who likes to wear dresses at home, convinces his parents to let him wear a dress to school too.

Annoyed that Sister Bear always beats them at baseball and other "boy" type activities, her brother and other male cubs try to exclude her from their new club.

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

Sixth-grader Jeremy Bender damages his father's prized boat and needs to come up with a lot of money to get it repaired. He and his best friend dress up as girls to infiltrate the Cupcake Cadet troop in an attempt to win the Windjammer Whirl model sailboat contest, and the prize money that comes with it.

Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure around the Mediterranean world.

"At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairytale characters, Darling Charming is expected to excel in Damsel-In-Distressing class, but she yearns for adventure and envies her brothers, Daring and Dexter, who are learning to joust in Hero Training class"--

In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.

In this outer space adaptation of the fairy tale in rhyme, Cinderella dreams of becoming a spaceship mechanic.