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In a school as crowded as PS 128, it can be tricky to find a space private enough to hold the weekly meetings of the girls' literature club. Today, it's room 317, a typical classroom but special nonetheless to the 12 5th-grade girls who skipped recess to be here.

After she passes out new copies of The Bridge to Tarabithia by Katherine Paterson, Donna A. Gaffney, an assistant professor of clinical nursing at Columbia University's school of nursing, smiles broadly and asks, "Does anyone know what a heroine is?"

One girl raises her hand tentatively and...

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