Kids and Families

Girls to Women: Books for Growing Feminists

Picture Books

• Annie Bananie by Leah Komaiko
• Daisy's Taxi by Ruth Young
• Do Like Kyla by Angela Johnson
• Erandi's Braids by Antonio Hernandez
• Madrigal by Tomie dePaola
• Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
• I Like Me! by Nancy Carlson
• I Look Like a Girl by Sheila Hamanaka
• JoJo's Flying Side Kick by Brian Pinkney
• Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines
• Lon Po Po by Ed Young
• The Quilt by Ann Jonas
• Sheila Rae, the Brave by Kevin Henkes
• Sing, Sophie! by Dayle Ann Dodds
• The Talking Eggs by Robert San Souci
• You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer: a Very Improper Story by Shana Corey

Young Readers

• Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss
• Bloomers! by Rhoda Blumberg
• Busybody Nora by Johanna Hurwitz
• Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Gold Coins by David Adler (also see other Cam Jansen books)
• Forever Amber Brown by Paula Danziger (also see other Amber Brown books)
• The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
• Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (also see other Ramona books)
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan
• Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne
• Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

Middle Readers

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Girl Reporter in a Jam by Linda Ellerbee
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Left Out/By Rosie by Maureen Holohan (also see other books in the Broadway Ballplayers series)
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (also see other books by Laura Ingalls Wilder)
• Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Page by Tamora Pierce
• Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary (also see other Ramona books)
• Red-Dirt Jessie by Anna Myers
• The Window by Michael Dorris

Older Readers

• Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
• Flight #116 Is Down by Caroline Cooney
• I Wouldn't Thank You For a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists
• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
• Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (also Haveli)
• So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
• Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver
• Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi