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You Go Girl:
Being Extraordinary Accounts of Courageous Girls’ Adventures |
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The Illyrian Adventure
by Lloyd Alexander
Published 2000 by Puffin Books
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On a visit to a remote European kingdom in 1872, a fearless sixteen-year-old orphan and her guardian research an ancient legend and become enmeshed in a dangerous rebellion. More...
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
Published 1992 by HarperTrophy
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As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. More...
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Beyond the Western Sea: Book One: The Escape from Home
by Avi
Published 1996 by Scholastic
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Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America. More...
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The Secret of Castle Cant
by K. P. Bath
Published 2004 by Little Brown and Company
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When twelve-toed orphan Lucy Wickwright is brought to Castle Cant to be serving girl to the Baron's daughter, the Adorable & Honorable Pauline, she becomes involved with revolutionaries and uncovers surprising palace intrigues. More...
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray
Published 2003 by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
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After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. More...
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Dragon's Keep
by Janet Lee Carey
Published 2007 by Harcourt Children's Books
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In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets. More...
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Star-Crossed
by Linda Collison
Published 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf
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Having been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim her father's estate, teenaged English orphan Patricia Kelley struggles to survive by learning to be a ship's doctor and by disguising herself as a man when necessary. Includes glossary of nautical terms. More...
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Goddess of Yesterday
by Caroline B. Cooney
Published 2002 by Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
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Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy. More...
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The Misadventures of Maude March: Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse
by Audrey Couloumbis
Published 2005 by Random House
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After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read. More...
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Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
Published 1994 by Clarion Books
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The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. More...
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A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly
Published 2003 by Harcourt Children's Books
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. More...
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The Hollow Kingdom
by Clare B. Dunkle
Published 2003 by Henry Holt & Company
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In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen. More...
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I, Coriander
by Sally Gardner
Published 2005 by Dial Books
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In seventeenth-century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born. More...
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A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
Published 1996 by Orchard Books (NY)
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Nhamo is a Shona girl living in a traditional village in Mozambique in 1981. When her family tries to force her into a marriage with a cruel man, she flees. What was supposed to have been a short boat trip across the border into Zimbabwe, where she hoped to find her father, turns into an adventure filled with challenges and danger that lasts a year. More...
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The Oracle Betrayed
by Catherine Fisher
Published 2004 by Greenwillow Books
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After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon. More...
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Alphabet of Dreams
by Susan Fletcher
Published 2006 by Simon & Schuster
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Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. Includes historial notes. More...
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Rover
by Jackie French
Published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers
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Captured by Vikings, young Hekja is taken as a slave to Greenland by the daughter of Erik the Red, and accompanied by no one from her homeland but her loyal dog, shares adventures with her new mistress, who is determined to make a name for herself as her father and brother have. More...
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Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale
Published 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland when danger threatens them. More...
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The Goose Girl
by Shannon Hale
Published 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. More...
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Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale
Published 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Find this book in our catalog. When maid Dashti and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment. As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. But the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows. More... |
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