Young Adult Female Protagonists Book List Denotes New Titles Recently Added to the List

Young Adult Female Protagonists Book List Denotes new titles recently added to the list Abdel-Fattah, Randa O'Connell's journey to America after their Does My Head Look Big In parents' cottage is destroyed by their greedy This? landlord. Their paths intersect with that of Year Eleven at an exclusive prep Laurence Kirkle, who is also running away to school in the suburbs of the land of opportunity. Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated Bauer, Joan for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, Hope Was Here the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of Sixteen-year-old Hope takes her faith--without losing her identity or sense pride in her job: she's a short- of style. (Summary from Destiny Follett, Oct order waitress who has come 2009) from Brooklyn with her aunt Addie to run a diner in Wisconsin, its proprietor sidelined by Amateau, Gigi leukemia. Addie and Hope, long peripatetic, A Certain Strain of Peculiar find a new life in Wisconsin as well as a cause: Tired of the miserable life she the diner's owner takes on the corrupt mayor lives, Mary Harold leaves her in an upcoming election. And Hope's mother behind and moves back tentative romance with the cook is sweet to Alabama and her indeed. grandmother, where she receives support and love and starts to gain confidence in herself Bauer, Joan and her abilities. The Rules of the Road Jenna, newly armed with a Anderson, Laurie Halse driver's license, thought she had Chains her summer all worked out--until After being sold to a cruel couple Mrs. Gladstone, owner of the shoe store chain in New York City, a slave named where Jenna works in Chicago, shows up and Isabel spies for the rebels during asks Jenna to drive her to Texas. the Revolutionary War. (Follett, 2009) Bodett, Tom The Williwaw Anderson, Laurie Halse Thirteen-year-old September Fever 1793 and her younger brother Yellow fever is sweeping Ivan are home alone while through Philadelphia, and for their father, a commercial fisherman, is off the young Mattie, the epidemic Alaskan coast. Disobeying their father, they begins with the sudden death take the skiff across the bay, and after one of a friend. broken rule leads to another, an autumn windstorm threatens to capsize their boat. Avi Beyond the Western Sea: The Bouman, H.M. Escape From Home The Remarkable and Very This adventure begins in Ireland True Story of Lucy & Snowcap during the potato famine and In 1788, thirteen years after follows Maura and Patrick English convicts are shipwrecked *Unless previously noted, book summaries are from Horn Book online, October 2003 1 Denotes new titles recently added to the list on the magical islands of Tathenland, two Cashore, Kristin twelve-year-old girls, one a native Colay, the Graceling other the child-governor of the English, set In a world where some people are out on a journey to stop the treachery from born with extreme and often- which both peoples are suffering. (Summary feared skills called Graces, Katsa from Destiny Follett, November 2009). struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up Burg, Shana with another young fighter to save their land A Thousand Never Evers from a corrupt king. (Summary from Destiny As the civil rights movement in Follett, November 2009) the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against Creech, Sharon African-Americans intensifies, Bloomability residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Thirteen-year-old Dinnie travels Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie to Lugano, Switzerland, for a year Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous when her uncle is appointed struggle for racial justice. (Summary from headmaster of the American Follett Destiny, October 2009) School. Reluctantly at first, Dinnie allows experiences, diverse new Calhoun, Dia friends, and unexpected and challenging ideas Aria of the Sea to push the walls of her world further and When commoner Cerinthe further out. The cast of characters are lively, gains admittance to the sympathetic, and often amusing, and Dinnie School of the Royal Dancers, herself is an appealing narrator. she thinks that her dream has come true. But a rivalry with another dancer causes tension, Creech, Sharon which is amplified by Cerinthe's deep-rooted The Wanderer fear of using her gift for healing. Sophie is determined to join her three uncles and two (boy) Cashore, Kristin cousins on their transatlantic sail Bitterblue to England, home of her Eighteen-year- beloved grandfather Bompie. old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her Creech, Sharon heavy responsibility and the Walk Two Moons futility of relying on advisors who surround While traveling from Ohio to her with lies as she tries to help her people to Idaho with her eccentric heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her grandparents to visit her father, a violent psychopath with mind- mother, who left the year before and has altering abilities. (Summary from Destiny never returned, thirteen-year-old Salamanca Follett, January 2013) Hiddle tells them about her new friend, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother also left without explanation. *Unless previously noted, book summaries are from Horn Book online, October 2003 2 Denotes new titles recently added to the list the hope that the self-reliant girl will find her Crewe, Megan place in life. The Way We Fall Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn Donnelly, Jennifer challenges her fears, finds a Revolution second chance at love, and fights An angry, grieving seventeen- to keep her family and friends year-old musician facing safe as a deadly new virus devastates her expulsion from her prestigious island community. (Summary from Follett Brooklyn private school travels Destiny, March 2012). to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French Cushman, Karen revolution by a young actress attempting to Alchemy and Meggy Swann help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Meggy Swann, a girl who walks Charles, the lost king of France. (Summary with the aid of two sticks, from Follett Destiny, November 2010). arrives in Elizabethan London, along with her goose Louise, to Dowell, Frances O’Roark stay with her father who really does not want Dovey Coe her, and while he pursues his dream of Plainspoken twelve-year-old transforming base metal into gold, Meggy Dovey narrates her experiences undergoes a transformation herself. (Summary growing up in North Carolina from Follett Destiny, November 2010). in the 1920s with her older sister, Caroline, and their hearing-impaired Cushman, Karen brother Amos. When Caroline's onerous Catherine, Called Birdy former suitor is murdered, Dovey stands trial The thirteen-year-old for the crime. daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal Ernst, Kathleen in which she records the Hearts of Stone events of her life, particularly her longing for Orphaned when her father dies adventures beyond the usual role of women fighting for the Union and her and her efforts to avoid being married off. mother expires from exhaustion, (Summary from NoveList online book guide, October and also estranged from their 2003). Confederate neighbors, fifteen-year-old Hannah struggles to find a way for her family Cushman, Karen to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee. The Midwife’s Apprentice (Summary from www.hclib.org, 2007) In a sharply realistic novel of medieval England by the Eulberg, Elizabeth author of Catherine, Called The Lonely Hearts Club Birdy (Clarion), a homeless, Penny swears off boys after one hungry orphan girl called Beetle is taken in by too many bad dates and creates the village midwife. As Beetle grows and The Lonely Hearts Club. Then, learns, she begins to gain some hard-won self- as the club unexpectedly becomes esteem, and a satisfying conclusion conveys popular, Penny falls for a boy. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2010) *Unless previously noted, book summaries are from Horn Book online, October 2003 3 Denotes new titles recently added to the list Fama, Elizabeth Fogelin, Adrian Overboard Crossing Jordan Frustrated with her doctor- Cass, who is white, and parents' work in Indonesia, Jemmie, her new neighbor fourteen-year-old Emily runs who is black, become friends away, only to be thrust into a survival but are forbidden to see each nightmare when the ferry she's riding capsizes other when their prejudiced parents find out. at sea. For nearly a full night and day, she and a Muslim boy stick together and swim toward George, Jean Craighead an island. Julie of the Wolves While running away from home Farmer, Nancy and an unwanted marriage, a A Girl Named Disaster thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl An extraordinarily rich novel becomes lost on the North set in contemporary Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf Mozambique and Zimbabwe pack. (Summary from NoveList online book guide, and featuring a most October 2003). remarkable heroine begins with her life in a traditional, remote village; follows Giff, Patricia Reilly her journey to escape an arranged marriage; Lily’s Crossing and concludes with her experiences in Lily Mollahan is looking 'civilized' Zimbabwe. forward to summer, but the war shatters all her dreams: her Fenner,Carol beloved father has enlisted; her Yolonda’s Genius best friend is moving away; and Albert, a Although her younger brother seemingly unfriendly war refugee from Andrew is having trouble Hungary, intrudes on her private space. To learning to read in the first complicate matters, Lily is fond of enhancing grade, Yolonda is convinced her importance or escaping retribution with that he is a musical genius and sets out to facile lies. prove it. Giff, Patricia Reilly Flake, Sharon G.

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