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

In honor of Women's History Month, and International Women's Day, 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 
• Becoming Naomi Leon By Pam Munoz Ryan

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.