An account of the life of Charlotte 'Charley' Parkhurst who, at age twelve and disguised as a boy, runs away from an orphanage to make a life for herself handling horses as a stable hand and expert one-eyed coach driver. She lands in California, purchases a ranch of her own, and secretly votes in the presidential election of 1868.

Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.

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 throughout the Mediterranean world.

After their aunt's death, eleven-year-old tomboy Sallie March and her ladylike older sister Maude disguise themselves as boys and set out to find their uncle in Missouri.

Buran's father with seven daughters is a very poor merchant while her uncle with seven sons is very wealthy. Defying Arabic customs, Buran disguises herself as a man and goes forth to make a fortune for her family. Not only is she successful but she also finds her true love.

Escaping from her cheating fiancé, seventeen-year-old Sovay adopts the dress and life style of a highwayman and takes to the dangerous roads of eighteenth-century England.

After the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward and, in the guise of a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled political enmities of tenth-century Britain.

Gwyn, the high-spirited daughter of an innkeeper, finds a disguise she believes to be that of the legendary Jackaroo, a figure whose actions resemble those of Robin Hood. She soon decides to use Jackaroo's disguise to help those less fortunate.

A brief biography of Deborah Sampson, a woman who disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

A young lady-in-waiting seems to have eloped with Sir Francis Drake, but thirteen-year-old Grace uses her prognosticating skill and masquerades as a boy to prove otherwise.

Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and, disguised as boys, wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad.

After surviving a shipwreck, a princess disguises herself as a sailor so she can tell a well-read prince a story to which neither he, nor she, knows the ending.

Charley Parkhurst always was more comfortable around horses than around humans. One of the most respected stagecoach drivers in the old West, Charley also kept one of the biggest secrets anyone could keep - he was a woman in disguise.

A retelling of the original Chinese poem in which a brave young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Tartars in the Khan's army.

To escape an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Esther Brandeau disguises herself as a boy, runs away from home, and journeys to New France in the 1730s.

At the turn of the century when women were expected to cook and clean, sixteen-year-old Tabitha disguises herself as a boy to join an archaeological dig searching for dinosaur fossils in the Dakota Badlands.

A biography of the woman who, disguised as a man, moved behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union during the Civil War.

A headstrong and impish thirteen-year-old named Valerie Leigh dresses as a boy, and runs away to London to meet Nick and Master William Shakespeare.

Twelve-year-old Krille discovers that his new friend Johnny is actually female.

Relates the experiences of the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution.