Chick Lit!
How about some Good Books for Girls?
More Than a Label: Why What You Wear or Who You’re With Doesn’t Define Who You Are
Aisha Muharrar
Preppy. Techie. Geek. Freak. Goth. Jock. These are just a few of the labels teens endure every day. Sharing her own experiences and insights, drawing on a nationwide survey of more than 1,000 teens, 17-year-old author, Aisha Muharrar reveals how labels limit, stereotype, and often hurt.
Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer
Tina Basich
Champion snowboarder Tina Basich tells her life story, explaining how she got into the sport, how she and her fellow female boarders helped it grow, how she has juggled with the pressures of life, love, and competition, and how she has used her talents to help causes such as breast cancer research.
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
Catherine Thimmesh
Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
Prom
Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Born Confused
TanujaDesai Hidier
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.
Speak
Laurie HalseAnderson
A traumatic event in the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school.
Alice, I Think
Susan Juby
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, starting high school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis" after being home-schooled.
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
"She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Mica Area High School who wears kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned by her.
The Truth About Forever
Sara Dessen
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Confessions of a Not It Girl
Melissa Kantor
High school senior Jan Miller is convinced she's destined for the world's least fabulous life because she doesn't have IT. But, maybe, just maybe, being a Not It Girl will turn out to have some major rewards.
Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
If You Come Softly
Jacqueline Woodson
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
East
Edith Pattou
A superstitious mother tries to protect her child, Rose, from a dire prophecy. Rose is "different" in many ways, from her purple eyes to her passion for weaving. She also seems to attract the attention of a white bear, and when the bear offers to make her poor family prosper and to restore her ill sister's health if Rose will come away with him, she finds the offer impossible to resist.
Abarat
Clive Barker
One day, humiliated by her teacher, Candy skips out of school and heads for the prairie, where she stumbles on a derelict lighthouse and a creature with eight heads, John Mischief. Candy becomes a pawn between Mischief and the "Lord of Midnight" from whom Mischief has stolen something of great value.
Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza Ortega lives in a beautiful home filled with servants and the promise of one day presiding over all of Rancho de las Rosas. But tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee from Mexico to California and settle in a farm labor camp.
Homecoming
Cynthia Voight
The four Tillerman children, abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, travel on foot from New England to their paternal grandmother's Maryland farm in search of a place to call home.
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home -- forever. But there's been a terrible mistake. The husband chosen for her is too young and he's very ill. But, as tradition dictates, it's too late to turn back.
Bloody Jack
L.A. Meyer
Mary Faber, orphaned at eight years old, takes to a life of begging and petty crime on the streets of London. After her gang's leader is killed, she dons his clothing, trading in the name Mary for Jack, and takes to the high seas aboard the HMS Dolphin. She earns her nickname in a clash with pirates and tries to survive as a castaway.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, where her only purpose is to produce a child.
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Eleven-year-old Pecola prays for blue eyes hoping that changing their color will change her life.
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
As a classic tale of romantic suspense, Du Maurier creates an unforgetable atmosphere and memorable characters. Why can't the second Mrs. de Winter escape from Rebecca, the first Mrs. Maxim de Winter? After all, Rebecca did drown in a sailing accident eight months earlier.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Classic story of proud Elizabeth Bennet and haughty Mr. Darcy. They can’t stand each other…at first.