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The New Girl . . . and Me
The New Girl . . . and Me by Jacqui Robbins; ill. by Matt Phelan Atheneum, 2006 32 pages When I was in sixth grade, my family moved cross-country from Los Angeles to the rural South. It was a miserable...
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I’m Thankful for Inspiring Women
I’m not naturally a thankful person. I have to cultivate gratitude as a discipline, the way some people work on eating healthy or exercising regularly or sticking to a budget. So November is always an...
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Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery Houghton Mifflin, 2012 148 pages Children with autism are (often very obviously) outside the norm in...
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Jessica
Jessica by Kevin Henkes Greenwillow Books, 1989 24 pages Kevin Henkes is one of my favorite author-illustrators for children. His perceptive, sometimes sly and snarky heroes and heroines are among the...
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Random House, 2009 373 pages I think it was in one of my college lit classes that I first heard the term “antihero.” Before that point, I had...
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The Gift of Inspiration: Anne of Green Gables
The Anne of Green Gables Series by Lucy Maude Montgomery L.C. Page & Co., 1908 (1st edition) 429 pages I’ve been mulling over this post since I first started this blog. I knew from day one that I’d...
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Super Secondaries: The Women (and Girls) of Harry Potter
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling; ill. by Mary GrandPre Scholastic Shortly after I started writing this blog, I had an idea for a series: something that would recognize books with strong female...
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Up a Road Slowly
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt Follett, 1966 192 pages Irene Hunt’s Up a Road Slowly is a problem book. I can’t remember where I first heard about it, but I do remember being told that it’s a great...
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