Re: Hit: Female Protagonist

[Lilli Keating <lillikeating@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

Here is the list of recommended books for 7th/8th grades with a female
protagonist and not centered on death, and not a fantasy or science fiction.
Thank you for all  who replied.

A Girl Named Disaster  by  Nancy Farmer
Memoirs of a Bookbat  by Kathryn Lansky
Don’t Look Behind You  by Lois Duncan
Walking Up a Rainbow  by  Theodore Taylor
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle  by  Avi
Blue Heron  by  Avi
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Let the Circle Be Unbroken  by Mildred Taylor
Triangle  by Jon Ripslinger
In Country  by  Bobbli Mason
Homecoming  by Cynthia Voigt
Dicey’s Song  by Cynthia Voigt
When She Hollers  by  Cynthia Voigt
Seventeen Against the Dealer  by  Cynthia Voigt
Downriver  by  Will Hobbs
THWONK!  by Joan Bauer
Squashed!  by Joan Bauer
Send No Blessings  by  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Lyddie  by  Katherine Patterson
Keeping It Secret  by  Penny Pollock
Catherine Called Birdy  by  Karen Cushman
The Midwife’s Apprentice  by  Karen Cushman
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes  by  Chris Crutcher
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind  by  Suzanne Fisher Staples

Lillian Keating, Library Media Specialist
Pequannock Valley School
Pompton Plains NJ
lillikeating@worldnet.att.net

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