Female Voices Juvenile and Teen Reading Lists

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Picture Books

• The Princess Knight – Cornelia Funke
• Me…Jane – Patrick McDonnell
• I Like Myself – Karen Beaumont
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom – Carole Boston Weatherford
• Frida – Jonah Winter
• Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell – Tanya Lee Stone
• Rosie Revere, Engineer – Andrea Beaty
• Amazing Grace – Mary Hoffman
• Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller – Doreen Rappaport
• Ruby’s Wish – Shirin Yim Bridges

 
Chapter Books

• Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
• One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams-Garcia
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon – Kelly Barnhill
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus – Dusti Bowling
• Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
• Amina’s Voice – Hena Kahn
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate – Jacqueline Kelly
• The Princess in Black – Shannon Hale
• I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World – Malala Yousafzai
• Shuri: A Black Panther Novel – Nic Stone

 
Teen Books

• With the Fire On High – Elizabeth Acevedo
• Watch Us Rise – Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
• Dear Haiti, Love Alaine – Maika & Maritza Moulite
• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein – Kiersten White
• Blood Water Paint – Joy McCullough
• The Female of the Species – Mindy McGinnis
• Full Disclosure – Camryn Garnett
• Here We Are: Feminism For the Real World – ed. Kelly Jensen
• Girl Made of Stars – Ashley Herring Blake
• The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid – Kate Hattemer