Women’s History Month is a great reminder to celebrate young women from the past and present and from the imagination of authors. Here are some excellent titles featuring remarkable young women.
Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2 by Joel Christian Gill
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World Edited by Kelly Jensen
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Ms Marvel series by G. Willow Wilson
Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
The Killer of Enemies series by Joseph Bruchac
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle