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[erbie]

Hello flist! I am looking for your book recommendations.

I want to find books for my daughters that have strong female leads. I don't want books where the princess rejects all her suitors or anything else that's just her rebelling against her female role. I don't want that to be an issue. I have plenty of those and frankly, with me as a mother, that's not really a problem. ;) I want books where the female is in the role that is traditionally given to the male. I don't want anything about her being rescued by any man. I want Harry Potter with a female Harry. Or The Phantom Tollbooth with a female Milo.

Remember that my oldest is only seven, so I'd like things that are good for her now. She's just starting to be interested in chapter books. I'd also like things that I can steer her towards as she gets older.

So whaddayagot?

Comments

[lietya.livejournal.com]

"Also, you can't beat From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"

Ohhh, yes! I can't believe I forgot this one! Also, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone else who'd read it. :) God, I loved that book.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I read it! We actually had it assigned in school one year...

[lietya.livejournal.com]

assigned in school...? I'd never imagined such a thing!

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Yup! Fifth or sixth grade, IIRC...I'd already read it something like twenty jillion times by then.

[merina.livejournal.com]

It's on the grade 5 'core books' in our school. I love that book.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

We did too!! I'd already it though, so was assigned something else!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I loved it too!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[amyura.livejournal.com]

I read it! One of my favorites!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Mine, too! I'm thrilled, even as a so-called adult, to meet people who loved it.