GIRLZ+POWER+READS!

=**The following is a list of must reads, created by Planet Esme, that promote young girlz!**= Image Courtesy of Lusia Cortesao http://homepage.mac.com/luisacortesao/colheres/

Picture Books
//Punga: Goddess of Ugly// by Deborah Norse Lattimore The //Madeline// Series by Ludwig Bemelmans The //Eloise// Series by Kay Thompson //Mirette on the High Wire// by Emily McCully (many great strong girl books by this author, including //The Bobbin Girl//, //Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of Nun's Kung Fu// and //Little Kit, Or, The Industrious Flea Circus Girl//) //A Weave of Words// by Robert D. San Souci (also try //Young Guinevere//, //Sukey and the Mermaid//, //Fa Mulan:The Story of a Woman Warrior//, //The Talking Eggs// and //Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale//, all by the same author) //Seven Brave Women// by Betsy Hearne //Three Strong Women// by Claus Stamm //Library Lil// by Suzanne Williams //Cherry Pies and Lullabies// by Lynn W. Reiser //This Quiet Lady// by Charlotte Zolotow //Mangaboom// by Anita Lobel //Princess Furball// by Charlotte Huck //Kate and the Beanstalk// by Mary Pope Osborne //Tam Lin// by Susan Cooper //Two Girls Can!// by Keiko Narahashi //Dawn// by Molly Bang //Brave Irene// by William Steig //Legend of the Bluebonnet// by Tomie DePaola //Miss Rumphius// by Barbara Cooney //Heartaches of a French Cat// by Barbara McClintock //The Trouble with Trolls// by Jan Brett //Amazing Grace// by Mary Hoffman //The Gardener// by Sarah Stewart //Imogene's Antlers// by David Small //The Paper Princess// by Elisa Kleven //Sassy Gracie// by James Sage //Westward Ho, Carlotta!// by Candace Fleming //A Grain of Rice// by Demi //Swish!// by Bill Martin Jr. //A Brave Little Princess// by Beatrice Masini //Serefina, Under the Circumstances// by Phyllis Theroux //The Emperor and the Kite// by Jane Yolen //The Paper Bag Princess// by Robert Munsch //Birdie's Lighthouse// by Deborah Hopkinson //The Golly Sisters Go West// and //Hooray for the Golly Sisters!// by Betsy Byars //Loud Emily// by Alexis O'Neill //Little Red Cowboy Hat// by Susan Lowell 

Longer Books for older readers and/or listeners
//Amelia's Notebook// by Marissa Moss (also try Rachel's Journal by this author) //Tatterhood and Other Tales// edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps //The Wolves of Willoughby Chase// by Joan Aiken //The Firework-Maker's Daughter// by Philip Pullman //The Folk Keeper// by Franny Billingsley //Our Only May Amelia// by Jennifer L. Holm //Scooter// by Vera Williams //Ella Enchanted// by Gail Carson Levine //The Moorchild// by Eloise McGraw //Love From Your Friend, Hannah// by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky //Dealing with Dragons// by Patricia Wrede //A Girl Named Disaster// by Nancy Farmer //Bat 6// by Virginia Euwer Wolff //Beezus and Ramona// by Beverly Cleary (try all the Ramona series books for a high energy girl!) //Number the Stars// by Lois Lowry //Matilda// by Roald Dahl //Mandy// by Julie Andrews Edwards //Island of the Blue Dolphins// by Scott O'Dell //The Devil in Vienna// by Doris Orgel //The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle// by Avi //I Am Lavina Cumming// by Susan Lowell //In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson// by Bette Bao Lord //Matilda Bone// by Catherine Cushman (also try //The Midwife's Apprentice//,//The Ballad of Lucy Whipple// and //Catherine, Called Birdy// by the same author) //The Seven Wise Princesses: A Medeival Persian Epic// retold by Wafa Tamowska //Shiva's Fire// by Suzanne Fisher Staples //Best Enemies// by Kathleen Leverich //The Ghost of Fossil Glen// by Cynthia DeFelice //Pippi Longstocking// by Astrid Lindgren The //Cam Jansen// mystery series by David A. Adler The American Girl book series, various authors (//Meet Addy// by Connie Porter is my favorite!) //Taking Flight: My Story// by Vicki Van Meter with Dan Gutman//Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories// by Thomas and Dorothy Hoobler//Cleopatra// by Diane Stanley (also try //Rumplestiltskin's Daughter// by this author) //More Spice than Sugar: Poems About Feisty Females// compiled by Lillian Morrison //Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women// by Cheryl Harness //Sacagawea// by Judith St. George //Rosa Parks: My Story// by Rosa Parks //Through My Eyes// by Ruby Bridges //Joan of Arc// by Margaret Early //Nobody Owns the Sky// by Reeve Lindbergh //Anne Frank : Beyond the Diary// by Ruud Van Der Rol //My Name is Georgia: A Portrait// by Jeanette Winter //Eleanor Roosevelt// by Russell Freeman //Rookie: Tamika Whitmore's First Year in the WNBA// by Joan Anderson //Remarkable Women of the American Revolution// by Karen Zeinert //Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women// by Marianna Mayer //All By Herself// biographical poems by Ann Whitford Paul //Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women// by Catherine Thimmesh //Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States// by Sheila Keenan //Wilma Unlimited// by Kathleen Krull