Children’s Books with Strong Main Female Characters [4-8]
Stella Blackstone’s My Granny Went Around the World
Babette Cole’s Princess Smartypants series
Joanna Cole’s The Magic School Bus series
Julia Donaldson’s Zog
Geraldine Durrant & Rose Forchall’s Pirate Gran
Carol Anne Duffy’s Moon Zoo
Marie-Louise Gay’s Stella series
Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch’s Amazing Grace series
Michael Arvaaluk Kusugak’s Hide and Sneak
Robert Munsch’s The Paperbag Princess
Robert Munsch’s From Far Away
Robert Munsch’s The Mud Puddle
Robert Munsch’s Angela’s Airplane
Gillian Rogerson’s You Can’t Eat A Princess
Valerie Thomas’ Winnie the Witch series
Children’s Books with Strong Main Female Characters [6-8]
Georgia Byng’s Molly Moon series
Lauren Childe’s Clarice Bean
Beverly Cleary’s Ramona series
Roald Dahl’s Matilda
Anna Dale’s Whispering to Witches
Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit
Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking
Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch
Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones series
Sandi Toksvig’s Girls are Best
Children’s Books with strong main female Characters [9-12]
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
Frank Bedder’s The Looking Glass Wars
Judy Blume’s Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume’s Here’s to you Rachel Robinson
Judy Blume’s Just as Long as We’re Together
Susan Coolidge’s What Katy Did series
Karen Cushman’s Catherine Called Birdy
Karen Cushman’s The Midwife’s Apprentice
Paula Danziger’s The Cat ate my Gymsuit
Paula Danziger’s There’s a Bat in Bunk Five
Paula Danziger’s The Divorce Express
Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy
Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart Trilogy
Julia Golding’s Companions Quartet [Book 1 is called Secret of the Sirens]
Elizabeth Goudge’s The Little White Horse
Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust
Robin Hood’s The Dragon Keeper
Anne Isaacs’ Torn Threads
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time
Jean Littles’s Mine for Keeps
Jean Little’s Stand in the Wind
Jean Little’s Home from Far
Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars
Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik series
Carol Matas’ Lisa
Carol Matas’ In My Enemy’s House
Carol Matas’ Greater than Angels
L.M Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables
L.M Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon
Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials Trilogy
Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart Trilogy
Edith Pattou’s East
Kit Pearson’s A Handful of Time
Kit Pearson’s Awake and Dreaming
Stella Pevsner’s New Girl [also called: Break a Leg]
Tamora Pierce’s The Immortals
Tamora Pierce’s Songs of the Lioness
Ruth Sawyer’s Roller Skates
Joanna Spyri’s Heidi
Catherine Storr’s Marianne Dreams
Noel Streatfield’s Ballet Shoes
Anne Ursu’s The Shadow Thieves
Ida Vos’ The Key is Lost
Kathleen Winter’s Katrina
Patricia Wrede’s The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Children’s Books with strong central Female Characters [7-12]
Joan Aiken’s Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Cressida Cowell’s How to Train a Dragon series
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series
Teenager’s Books with strong main female Characters [12-15]
Judy Blume’s Forever
Meg Cabot’s Missing
Meg Cabot’s Mediator
Meg Cabot’s All-American Girls
Trudi Canavan’s Black Magician’s Trilogy
Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series
Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series
Alison Croggon’s The Books of Pellinor series
Norma Johnson’s The Carlisle Chronicles
Ursula Le Guin’s EarthSea Quartet
Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle
Susan Terris’ Nell’s Quilt
Older Teenager’s Books with strong, female Characters [14+]
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampire series
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Sapphire’s Push
Dorothy Sayer’s Gaudy Night
