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Girl Power! Fiction about Strong Women
These books show that girls can accomplish anything.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and
people she doesn't even know hate her. But there's something she's trying not to think about, something about
the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens.
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Bray, Libba
A Great and Terrible Beauty
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, Gemma returns to England to attend a finishing school where
she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
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Castellucci, Cecil and Jim Rugg
The Plain Janes
When transfer student Jane is forced to move from the confines of Metro City to Suburbia, she thinks her
life is over. But there she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane. The four girls form a secret
art gang, but can art really save the hell that is high school?
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Cushman, Karen
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
Francine has nuns for teachers who don't exactly encourage the students to think for themselves. Then she
makes a new best friend, Sophie, who is her exact opposite. When Sophie is expelled from school, what will
Francine do?
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Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun
Two fifteen-year-old girls -- one a slave and the other an indentured servant -- escape their Carolina
plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Farmer, Nancy
A Girl Named Disaster
While fleeing from Mozambique to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhama, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles
to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
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Lockhart, E.
The Boyfriend List: (15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver)
When Ruby begins having panic attacks, her shrink has her make a list of all the boys she's dated. But neither
one of them intends the list to be passed around her school and read by her classmates.
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Mackler, Carolyn
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves is sure that she's the weakest link in her high-powered family until her
handsome, athletic, star-student brother shockingly falls from grace.
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Rosoff, Meg
How I Live Now
Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but son war breaks
out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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Stone, Tanya Lee
A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl
When a handsome senior boy enters their mix, Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva soon find themselves in questionable
situations where each girl must make the right decision before their personal sacrifices become too great.
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Wooding, Chris
Poison
In this spirited anti-fairy tale, Poison seeks out the Phaerie Lord in order to rescue her sister. Finding
him isn't easy, and the quest leads Poison into a murderous world of intrigue, danger, and deadly storytelling.
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List created February, 2008.
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