Of course, you could as easily argue that in playing the press a twelve-year-old girl learned something much more valuable that effort can trump ability and that conventions are made to be challenged.

NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

There was conflicting information about the identities of the dead, and uncertainty about whether the reports were accurate, but the victims were said to have included an old woman, or possibly an old man, and a twelve-year-old girl.

NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

This lovely movie, the first feature to come out of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, is about a twelve-year-old girl (Marina Golbahari) who dresses as a boy in order to get work and winds up with dozens of prepubescent boys in a madrassa, where she is subjected to nonstop Koranic recitation and bizarre lectures about sex.

NEWYORKER: Osama

Four men have been arrested over an "unprovoked attack" on youths in which a 15-year-old boy and girl were injured by up to twelve men in Manchester.

BBC: Arrests over attack in Manchester's Newton Heath