Wednesdays with The Subversive Children's Book Club: Strong Girl Characters

In honor of Women's History Month, this installment of the Subversive Children's Book Club features fiction books with strong girl characters.  Enjoy!

Primary and Lower Elementary:

• A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
• Madeline By Ludwig Bemelmans
• Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
• Mirette on The High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
• Chester's Way by Kevin Henkes
• Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines
• Rumplestiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley
• The Ramona Books By Beverly Cleary
• Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins Retold by Lauren Mills
• Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
• The Anne of Green Gables Books By L.M. Montgomery
• Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne 

Upper Elementary and Teen:

• The Tequila Worm By Viola Canales
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by  Jacqueline Kelley
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• One Crazy Summer & P.S. Be Eleven By Rita Williams-Garcia  
• Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes 
• The Betsy-Tacy Books By Maud Hart Lovelace (the later ones) 
• The Alice Books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor  
• Like Sisters on The Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
• The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski.