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Amelia Bloomer Project: 2005 Recommended Feminist Books for Youth

2004 list | 2005 list

The Amelia Bloomer Project, sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association creates a yearly list of books that celebrate girls and women as a vibrant, vital force in the world.

picture books | intermediate | young adult

Picture Books
Fiction The Princess Knight Cornelia Funke, Illustrated by Kerstin Meyer (Scholastic) Kindergarden-Grade 3. E FIC FUN
Elena’s Serenade Campbell Geeslin, Illustrated by Ana Juan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) PreSchool-Grade 2.
Nonfiction Mighty Jackie: The Strikeout Queen Marissa Moss, Illustrated by C.F. Payne (Simon and Schuster) Kindergarden-Grade 3. E 921 MI

Intermediate
Fiction The Fattening Hut Pat Lowery Collins (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 9-12. Y FIC COL
The Singer of All Songs Kate Constable (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine) Grades 7-10. Y FIC CON
The Education of Patience Goodspeed Heather Vogel Frederick (Simon & Schuster) Grades 5-9.
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum Peril and Romance Marthe Jocelyn (Candlewick Press) Grades 5-9. Y FIC JOC
A Hat Full of Sky Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins) Grades 5-9. Y FIC PRA
Becoming Naomi Leon Pam Munoz Ryan (Scholastic) Grades 5-9. J FIC RYA
The Shadows of Ghadames Joelle Stolz, Translated by Catherine Temerson (Delacorte Press) Grades 5-9. J FIC STO
My Guardian Angel Sylvie Weil (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine) Grades 5-9.
Chu Ju’s House Gloria Whelan (HarperCollins) Grades 5-9. Y FIC WHE
NonFiction Great Women Leaders Heather Ball (Second Story Press) Grades 5-9.
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote Ann Bausum (National Geographic) Grades 5-9. J 324.623 BA
Society’s Sisters: Stories of Women Who Fought for Social Justice in America Catherine Gourley (Twenty-First Century Books) Grades 6-9. J 920 GO
Women Who Fly Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly, illustrated by Rosalie M. Shepherd (Pelican Publishing Company) Grades 3-7.
A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull Kathleen Krull (Walker & Company) Grades 3-7. E 921 WO
Nancy Pelosi Hal Marcovitz (Chelsea House) Grades 5-9.
Feminism Kaye Stearman (Raintree) Grades 3-7.
Madam President: the Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics Catherine Thimmesh, illustrated by Douglas B. Jones (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 3-7. J 320.082 TH

Young Adult
Fiction The Garden Elsie V. Aidinoff (HarperTempest) Grades 9-12. Y FIC AID
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things Carolyn Mackler (Candlewick Press) Grades 7-10. Y FIC MAC
Birds of a Feather Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press) Grades 9-12. FIC WIN
Nonfiction No Horizon is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica Liv Arnesen & Ann Bancroft, with Cheryl Dahle (Da Capo Press) Grades 7-12. 919.8904 AR
All-Night Party: the Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 Andrea Barnet (Algonquin) Grades 9-12. 305.4097471 BA
Restless Genius: The Story of Virginia Woolf Virginia Brackett (Morgan Reynolds) Grades 7-10.
Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music Mina Carson, Tisa Lewis, Susan M. Shaw (The University Press of Kentucky) Grade 9-12.
Bobbie Rosenfeld: the Olympian Who Could do Everything Anne Dublin (Second Story Press) Grades 7-12.
The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World Carole Roy (Black Rose Books) Grades 9-12.
Burned Alive: a Victim of the Law of Men Souad (Warner Books) Grades 10-12. 362.8292092 SO

For more information about the Recommended Feminist Books for Youth visit the Amelia Bloomer Project Web page.

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