A Note to Visitors
This Lens focuses on books that feature strong, appealing heroines in a variety of roles, both traditional and non-traditional, and it is in that sense that the books featured here are "great for girls." It is also safe to say that most boys will like most of the books featured here, some boys will like all of them, and all boys will like some of them.
Great Books for Young Girls
The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch)
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 12/12/2009) 
Princess Smartypants
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Amazing Grace (Reading Rainbow Book)
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 12/12/2009)
Koala Lou
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/12/2009)
Brave Irene (Sunburst Books)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
More Great Books for Young Girls
Princess Furball
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Angelina Ballerina
Amazon Price: $10.07 (as of 12/12/2009)
Young Guinevere (A picture yearling book)
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Reading Rainbow Book)
Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 12/12/2009)
Heckedy Peg (A Voyager/Hbj Book)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/12/2009)
Great Books for Intermediate Girls
Matilda (Puffin Modern Classics)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix UK Deluxe First Edition (Harry Potter UK Deluxe First Editions, Volume 5)
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The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 12/12/2009)
Jennifer Murdley's Toad (Magic Shop Books)
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More Great Books for Intermediate Girls
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles)
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 12/12/2009)
Ida Early Comes over the Mountain
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Ella Enchanted (Trophy Newbery)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Classic Girl Stories
Little Women (Signet Classics)
Amazon Price: $3.95 (as of 12/12/2009)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Puffin Classics)
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The Secret Garden (The Illustrated Children's Library)
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 12/12/2009)
More Classic Girl Stories
Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
A Little Princess
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Heidi (Children's Classics)
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Understood Betsy
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 12/12/2009)
Classic Girl Stories on Film
Little Women (Collector's Series)
Amazon Price: $8.49 (as of 12/12/2009)
Anne of Green Gables
Amazon Price: $18.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel
Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Secret Garden (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
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Medieval Girls
Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Raging Quiet
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Pioneer Girls
Caddie Woodlawn
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Addie Across the Prairie
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
World War II Girls
The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Number the Stars
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
More Historical Fiction for Girls
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (rpkg)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Puffin Story Books)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Girls Around the World
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Breadwinner
Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 12/12/2009)
Detective Girls
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 12/12/2009)
Trixie Belden Boxed Set #1-#3
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The Ghost in the Third Row (Ghost in the ...)
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Fantasy for Girls
Mariel of Redwall (Redwall, Book 4)
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons / Searching for Dragons / Calling on Dragons / Talking to Dragons
Amazon Price: $16.29 (as of 12/12/2009)
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Chronicles of Prydain (The Five Books of Prydain, Complete Set)
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Young Adult Romances
Children of the River (Laurel-Leaf Contemporary Fiction)
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman (Laurel-Leaf Books)
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Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling Novel
Amazon Price: $10.04 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Only Alien on the Planet
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Classics for Girls
Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
Amazon Price: $4.95 (as of 12/12/2009)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
Real Girls
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Story of My Life (Bantam Classic)
Amazon Price: $4.95 (as of 12/12/2009)
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
Amazon Price: $12.55 (as of 12/12/2009)
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman (Scholastic Biography)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
My Life with the Chimpanzees
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/12/2009)
More Real Girls to Look Up
Queen Elizabeth I
Annie Oakley
Marie Curie
Susan LaFlesche Picotte
Nellie Bly
Rosa Parks
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Joan of Arc
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clara Barton
Amelia Earhart
Books About Girl Stuff
Girltalk Fourth Edition: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You
Amazon Price: $11.66 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Period Book: Everything You Don't Want to Ask (But Need to Know)
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What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls : A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
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Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/12/2009)
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era
For older teenagers - highly informative, but graphic. Feminist outlook, pro-comprehensive sex education, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, sex-positive.
Amazon Price: $18.72 (as of 12/12/2009)
Cool Non-Fiction for Girls
Women in the Material World
Amazon Price: $26.37 (as of 12/12/2009)
Herstory: Women Who Changed the World
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For Parents and Educators
Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/12/2009)
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books about Girls
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100 Books for Girls to Grow On
Amazon Price: $11.97 (as of 12/12/2009)
The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading
Amazon Price: $11.92 (as of 12/12/2009)
Recommendations on Amazon
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This Squidbook is dedicated to my daughter Noori. May she love books all her life.
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- JenOfChicago JenOfChicago Jan 11, 2009 @ 11:30 pm
- This is a great lens!
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- yestermorrow511 yestermorrow511 Oct 5, 2008 @ 2:12 am
- You have a nice collection of recomendations. Since I also have a lens on book recomendations, I just thought I'd say hey. So, "hey"! And good luck.
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- Barkely Barkely Aug 4, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
- You have a great resource here, thanks for joining the Fun For Kids group.
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- crafty1_nh crafty1_nh May 7, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
- What a great lens! I added you to my Fandangle Book Reviews lens that features reviews of recent children's books.
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