Brave New Girls: Stories of Girls Who science and Scheme

Stories are listed alphabetically by title. Click the titles to see the story descriptions.
Up late working on their entry for the Intergalactic Science Fair, Alice and her friends are faced with a dire emergency on the space station that holds their boarding school. Can they figure out how to evacuate their classmates before time runs out?
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Illustration by Jennifer L. Lopez
​Carrie Wheelwright uses her anti-burglary device to solve the mystery of the stolen submersible plans.
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Illustration by Sonya Craig
After a genetically mutated creature who uses the St. Louis Arch as a science facility to study humans murders her family, a young inventor uses her smarts to seek revenge.
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Illustration by Jennifer Stolzer
Madison Brown, a.k.a. Robot Repair Girl, returns to save an AI born of two other robots. Along the way she gets a lesson in creativity and realizes just how complex the beings she is trying to help are. 
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Illustration by Josh Pritchett
When her AI roommate, Sherlock, vanishes while working a case, fledgling biomedical engineer Chevonne is left to play detective after the authorities refuse to help her. Her investigation takes her into the heart of a dangerous operation that seeks to use Sherlock’s scientific know-how for their own nefarious purposes…
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Illustration by Jennifer L. Lopez
An up-and-coming aeronautical design team has been challenged to build a faster and sleeker dirigible for Her Majesty's new Royal Air Force. But when one partner is found dead and their prototype is stolen, Olivia Treadburn and her best friend Johanna Mason use science and engineering to find the killer and thief.
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Illustration by Kathy Ferrell
Kaleigh Gattling, Animal Handler on the First Galactic Circus in the Sky, has been entrusted with a new, rare creature. As she struggles to train this newest addition to the circus, she is reminded how unlike this wild beast, she has never really been free. So when the creature can't adapt, Kaleigh must choose: let it die, or take a risk and help to free the noble creature.
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Illustration by Ben Falco
A teenaged mechanic and vehicle designer must get her stranded and pregnant stepmother across the Martian terrain to the colony before the baby is born.
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Illustration by Hazel Butler
Teen genius Pilar takes her finished "Bug Suit" out for a test run, and after some unexpected glitches finds herself choosing between her own goals and what's morally right.
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Illustration by Jelani Akin Parham
In a standalone sequel to "Courage Is...", Georgie and Gracie find their spaceship has been hacked and they only have 37 minutes left to live. With Georgie in the data realm and Gracie in the Real, and all communication channels down, the friends must work together to save the day.
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Illustration by Evangeline Jennings
After her white cousin begins acting racist, a tech-savvy, biracial teen girl fights back using her best weapon––her brain––to create a virtual reality game to show her cousin the world in a whole new light.
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Illustration by Sonya Craig
In a bleak future where technology is rare, a young scavenger finds what may be the last mechanical being in the world.
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Illustration by Evelinn Enoksen
The French Revolution takes a shocking turn when Marie Antoinette escapes her execution and amasses a deadly robot army. Heloise, a fiery young engineer, infiltrates the queen's forces, sabotaging her automatons. The youth of France will not be enslaved by the machines.
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Illustration by Ben Falco
In a post-apocalyptic future where technology is shunned and people work as slaves for the good of their province, a young girl named Enola meets a mysterious wanderer who puts her on the terrifying and liberating path. 
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Illustration by Jennifer L. Lopez
Cethlenn considers herself lucky to be working with her Aunt Morrigan, a crazy yet talented engineer and self-styled Rocket Queen. That is until a dangerous scrapyard experiment threatens to turn a derelict freighter into a deadly singularity bomb…
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Illustration by Christopher Godsoe
Fourteen-year-old Elexa loves playing in the virtual world Nova, a game where players explore a dangerous planet called Amos capturing dungeons and fighting against alien monsters. As her team barely escapes dungeon seven, something goes wrong. A glitch? No, something more. As her best friend and crush Lem disappears Elexa discovers that Nova is about to become all too real.
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Illustration by Christopher Godsoe
Ava, an explosives and munitions expert, works to break through the hull of a seemingly impenetrable, monstrous spacecraft that appears above her city. 
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Illustration by Fauzy Zulvikar Firmansyah
When her anachronistic hometown Corina is attacked by a technologically advanced rival, it's up to Scilla to give the enemy something to really be afraid of. Using her engineering know-how, she builds a mechanical dragon to protect her city.
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Illustration by Evelinn Enoksen
In the ancient city of Aldamoor, a princess from another world and an airship pilot go on an adventure.
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Illustration by Emily Smith
Bridget North's best friend may be an alien, but it's the school's new benefactors that has her creepiness meter humming. She must use her high school biology knowledge to get to the bottom of the mystery and save the school.
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Illustration by Hazel Butler
A teen robotics programmer uses her wits, pet robots, and bravery to stop her colony's dam from collapsing and wiping out their food supply.
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Illustration by Fauzy Zulvikar Firmansyah
​Sadie Ross, an inquisitive girl living in late 19th Century British Columbia, is a spirited inventor who is one breakthrough short of her greatest creation yet. When her father, a sergeant in the Northwest Mounted Police, vanishes on a mysterious manhunt, Sadie and her invention may be the only hope of seeing him home safe.
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Illustration by Deanna Laver