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Readers' Advisory: Strong Female Characters: School Age

Fiction, Non-Fiction, E-Books, Audiobooks and Graphic Novels that feature strong female characters

Picture Books

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty; David Roberts (Illustrator)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781613129685
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah E. Richards; LisaGay Hamilton (Introduction by); R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Call Number: Requestable through MOBIUS.
ISBN: 9781416902645
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.3.B425 Mag 1977
ISBN: 9780140501988
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
Call Number: Requestable through MOBIUS.
ISBN: 9781554537044
One Word from Sophia by Jim Averbeck; Yasmeen Ismail (Illustrator)
Call Number: Requestable through MOBIUS.
ISBN: 9781481405140
The Paper Bag Princess by Munsch, Robert
Call Number: eBook
Under My Hijab by Hena Khan; Aaliya Jaleel (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.3.K493 Und 2019
ISBN: 9781620147924

Chapter Books

Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
Call Number: PZ7.K5264 Am 2017
ISBN: 9781481492065
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan; Read by Trini Alvarado
Call Number: Audiobook
Grilled Cheese and Dragons #1 by Nancy Krulik; Ben Balistreri (Illustrator)
Call Number: Requestable through MOBIUS.
ISBN: 9780515158328
The Haunted Library by Dori Hillestad Butler; Aurore Damant (Illustrator)
Call Number: Requestable through MOBIUS.
ISBN: 9780448462431
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Call Number: PZ7.D1515 Mat 1988
ISBN: 9781417786138
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett; Josephine Bailey (Narrated by)
Call Number: Audiobook
ISBN: 9781400128440

Upper Grades

Cinder by Marissa Meyer; Read by Rebecca Soler
Call Number: Audiobook
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
Call Number: PZ7.1.M471 Fur 2020
ISBN: 9781616209919
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780547351278
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One) by Suzanne Collins
Call Number: PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008
ISBN: 9780439023481
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Call Number: PZ7 .W5197 Ugl 2005
ISBN: 9781442479395
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Call Number: PZ7.1.P6947 Wil 2019
ISBN: 9780525645580
Publication Date: 2019-07-09