Books with Women of Strength
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Beyond the Divide, Kathryn Lasky
Hungry Cities Chronicles by Philip Reeve
Alanna
Being of Two Minds
Bel Air Bambi
Christmas Killer
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Darkangel
Dicey's Song
Downriver
Eva
False Becca
Ghost I Have Been series
Girl Named Disaster
Golden Compass
Mama I Want To Sing
Molly By Any Other Name
Monument
Other Side of Dark
Owl in Love
Quake
Ruby in the Smoke
Send No Blessings
Shabanu
Shizuko's Daughter
Silver Kiss
Star Fisher
Steal Away Home
Sweetgrass
The Blue Door
The Kid Can't Miss
There's A Girl In My Hammerlock
Weetzie Bat
Weirdo
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, Sarah Miller
Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy, Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell
War, Women, and the News: How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II, by Catherine Gourley
Little (Grrl) Lost, Charles De Lint
Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter
Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature
True Believer,Virginia Euwer Wolff
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Battle Dress by Amy Efaw
Boston Jane
Bloody Jack
Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelley
So much to tell you, Marsden
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing, by Libba Bray
Angelmonster, Veronica Bennett
In the Company of Men, Nancy Mace (with Mary Jane Ross)
Night of the Beasts, Chika Shiomi
Compiled by
Rebecca Pierson
Teen Librarian, Matthews Branch
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
For more booklists by genre, check out Raving Reads.