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RECOMMENDED READING FOR YOUNG ADULT WOMEN

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1896.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
Bauer, Joan. Hope Was Here. New York: Scholastic, 2000.
Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Blume, Judy. Deenie. New York: MacMillan, 1973.
Brashares, Ann. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
Cabot, Meg. Princess in the Spotlight. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Random House, 1984.
Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2001.
Duncan, Lois. Don’t Look Behind You. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1989.
Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster. New York: Orchard Books, 1996.
Flake, Sharon. The Skin I’m In. New York: Hyperion, 1998.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily’s Crossing. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell/Random House, 1997.
Hesse, Karen. Phoenix Rising. New York: Penguin/Puffin, 1994.
Hoffman, Alice. Aquamarine. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
Ihimaera, Witi. The Whale Rider. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 1987.
Keene, Carolyn. Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1930.
Koller, Jackie French. Someday. New York: Orchard Books, 2002.
Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
Letts, Billie. Where the Heart Is. New York: Warner Books, 1996.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.
Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2003.
McCullers, Carson. The Member of the Wedding. Boston: Bantam/Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. New York: L.C. Page (now Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 1908.
Munoz Ryan, Pam. Esperanza Rising. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2000.
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that Bind, Ties that Break. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1999.
Nolan, Han. Dancing on the Edge. New York: Harcourt Brace/Puffin, 1997.
Pascal, Francine. Fearless v.1. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Pattou, Edith. East. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2003.
Rees, Celia. Witch Child. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2000.
Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering All the Bones. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2004.
Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2000.
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Flipped. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2001.
Voight, Cynthia. Homecoming. New York: Ballantine, 1981.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Make Lemonade. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
Woodson, Jacqueline. I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This. New York: Delacorte, 1994.
Yen Mah, Adeline. Chinese Cinderella. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2001.