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19/06/13 16:04 Filed in: Environment
Handy Book Lists with Brave Girls—and Boys
BRAVE GIRLS LOVE TO READ
Summer time and the living is easy—and there’s time to dream and to read. By popular request, here is a list of books with BRAVE GIRLS that preteens and teens—grades 4 and up—can use to help choose books they might enjoy.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Forever by Judy Blume
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
There are Brave Girl Characters in These Books:
Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden
Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy from Little Women
Sara Crewe from A Little Princess
Laura, Mary and Ma Ingalls from the Little House on the Prairie Series
Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables
Ramona and Beezus from the Ramona Series
Meg Murray from A Wrinkle in Time
Hermione Granger, Tonks and Molly Weasley from the Harry Potter Series
Coraline Jones from Coraline
Cimorene from Dealing with Dragons (and the rest of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
Elizabeth from The Paper Bag Princess
Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Lireal/Sabriel from the Abhorsen Series
Alanna from the Song of the Lioness Series
Lucy and Susan from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Eff Rothmer from the Frontier Magic Series
Jane from Jane Erye
Lizzy Bennet and her Sisters from Pride and Prejudice
Eleanor and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility
Anne from Persuasion
Eowyn from the Lord of the Rings
Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
Kate from The Taming of the Shrew
Hester Pryne from The Scarlet Letter
Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird
Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride
Charlotte from Charlotte's Web
Margaret Halefrom North and South
Antigone from Sophocles' Antigone
Here are links to other book lists with Brave Girls:
100 Best Children's Chapter Books of All-Time
Five for Teen Read Week
Brave Books for Girls (Not Princesses)
This is Elise Grace, my 9-year-old granddaughter's list.
Cupcake Club
Edward Tolane
Racing in The Rain
Indian in the Cupboard
Cupcake Diaries
Confessions in the Principals Chair
Bea Magical (series)
The Westing Games
Tuck Everlasting
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Eco Mysteries with Six Brave Girls:
As you know, I write an eco mystery series for middle grades (9-13 year-olds), The Adventures of The Sizzling Six that feature six brave, feisty girls. You can read more about them on: Media Mint Publishing
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: The Lone Tree (book 1)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Who Stole The Cahaba Lily? (book 2)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: The Living Treasure (book 3)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Who Kidnapped The Koala? (book 4)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Return of The Red-cockaded Woodpecker (book 5)
Other books with an environmental themes:
* Carl Hiaason creates child-heroes as environmental activists in his trio of young-adult novels: Hoot, about endangered owls, Flush, on the illegal dumping of raw sewage into the ocean and Scat.
* Will Hobbs writes outdoor stories that appeal to both boys and girls. Hobbs has readers discovering wild places, sharing adventures with people from varied backgrounds, and exploring how to make important choices in their own lives.
* Gary Paulson's survival stories.
* Jean Craighead George still ranks with the best of eco mystery writers.
* Ben M. Baglio. The Dolphin Diaries series.
* Hannah West series by Linda Jones
*Elliot Schrefer’s Endangered
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Forever by Judy Blume
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
There are Brave Girl Characters in These Books:
Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden
Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy from Little Women
Sara Crewe from A Little Princess
Laura, Mary and Ma Ingalls from the Little House on the Prairie Series
Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables
Ramona and Beezus from the Ramona Series
Meg Murray from A Wrinkle in Time
Hermione Granger, Tonks and Molly Weasley from the Harry Potter Series
Coraline Jones from Coraline
Cimorene from Dealing with Dragons (and the rest of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
Elizabeth from The Paper Bag Princess
Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle
Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Lireal/Sabriel from the Abhorsen Series
Alanna from the Song of the Lioness Series
Lucy and Susan from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Eff Rothmer from the Frontier Magic Series
Jane from Jane Erye
Lizzy Bennet and her Sisters from Pride and Prejudice
Eleanor and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility
Anne from Persuasion
Eowyn from the Lord of the Rings
Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
Kate from The Taming of the Shrew
Hester Pryne from The Scarlet Letter
Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird
Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride
Charlotte from Charlotte's Web
Margaret Halefrom North and South
Antigone from Sophocles' Antigone
Here are links to other book lists with Brave Girls:
100 Best Children's Chapter Books of All-Time
Five for Teen Read Week
Brave Books for Girls (Not Princesses)
This is Elise Grace, my 9-year-old granddaughter's list.
Cupcake Club
Edward Tolane
Racing in The Rain
Indian in the Cupboard
Cupcake Diaries
Confessions in the Principals Chair
Bea Magical (series)
The Westing Games
Tuck Everlasting
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Eco Mysteries with Six Brave Girls:
As you know, I write an eco mystery series for middle grades (9-13 year-olds), The Adventures of The Sizzling Six that feature six brave, feisty girls. You can read more about them on: Media Mint Publishing
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: The Lone Tree (book 1)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Who Stole The Cahaba Lily? (book 2)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: The Living Treasure (book 3)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Who Kidnapped The Koala? (book 4)
The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: Return of The Red-cockaded Woodpecker (book 5)
Other books with an environmental themes:
* Carl Hiaason creates child-heroes as environmental activists in his trio of young-adult novels: Hoot, about endangered owls, Flush, on the illegal dumping of raw sewage into the ocean and Scat.
* Will Hobbs writes outdoor stories that appeal to both boys and girls. Hobbs has readers discovering wild places, sharing adventures with people from varied backgrounds, and exploring how to make important choices in their own lives.
* Gary Paulson's survival stories.
* Jean Craighead George still ranks with the best of eco mystery writers.
* Ben M. Baglio. The Dolphin Diaries series.
* Hannah West series by Linda Jones
*Elliot Schrefer’s Endangered
HAPPY READING Y’ALL