Girls & Women - Kids Fiction

Holly loves planting hollyhocks and black-eyed Susans in her yard and watching them grow. When those blossoms turn into seed pods, she gathers more than her little buckets can hold. After a trip to the library, she is inspired to share her seeds with...

Ding! Ding! Join Lydia Riverthane as she faces more dangerous challenges as she fights for her brother's freedom and wrassling glory in Round 2! READY FOR WRASSLING ROUND 2! As the Wrassle Castle tournament enters Round Two and Lydia continues to rise up the...

A brand-new look for a classic story. First published in 1979, this was the first of Robert Munsch's oral stories to be turned into a book. Since then, it has made countless children (and adults) all around the world laugh out loud. When Jule...

The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.Jade Blossom never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court. In seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not leave home until she...

School Library Journal Best Book * ALA Notable Children's Book * New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" * Chicago Public Library Best of the Best * Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice * Connecticut Book Award Winner * American Library...

From the acclaimed author of Tune It Out and Roll with It comes a "needed, hopeful" (Booklist) middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one life-changing summer. Twelve-year-old June Delancey is kicking summer...

May loves teaching her dog, Babe, new skills. Today it's ballet! While Babe's not perfect and needs a lot of breaks, May doesn't give up. But can Babe finish the lesson with a perfect leap over Teddy, or will the neighbor's cat, Shadow, ruin...

Can Astronaut Girl save the day with a little help from science? Find out as she and her space crew blast off on new adventures in this chapter book series! Everyone knows that humans can't travel to the sun...at least that's true in the...

In this engaging and inspiring biography, a groundbreaking but relatively unknown woman finally gets her due as one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. Emmy Noether is not pretty, quiet, good at housework or eager to marry -- all the things...

Erin loves to lie on the jetty, looking for the weirdest fish in the sea--the weirder, the better! And she knows the best ones must be further out, where her mum won't let her go... Out there in the deepest sea lies the Black...

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew are off on a spooky adventure when their prizewinning scarecrow goes missing. Nancy, Bess and George are thrilled when their class is asked to design a scarecrow for the town's biggest department store's window. And it gets even...

Alex and her family just moved, which means she has to start a new school and adjust to a new soccer team. She soon learns that she must play a new position on the team, which makes her frustrated. Alex must learn how to...

In Camp Creepy, the girls take a school trip to Taos, New Mexico A classmate's uncle has opened a new camp and the kids of River Heights Elementary are invited to come test it out. But when a series of mysterious incidents ruin Nancy's...

Twelve-year-old Willa and her twin brothers have survived with their father in the Alaskan wilderness for five years. But Willa knows this can't go on--they must escape. Now in paperback. Since their mother died five years ago, Willa, her younger brothers, and her father...

In this Nancy Drew and the Clew Crew adventure, Nancy and her friends must track down a beautiful--and very rare--butterfly when it goes missing from the new butterfly museum. Nancy, Bess, and George can't wait to check out Flutter House, an awesome new museum...

In Liberty Porter First Daughter, eight-year-old Liberty Porter's father has just been elected President of the United States--and she's the new First Daughter As Liberty moves into the White House, she vows to make herself indispensable to her country--but can she get past her...

Afros, Braids, & Curls: ABCs for Curly Girls, is an alphabet book written and illustrated to promote self-love and pride in girls with naturally curly and textured hair. With a colorful and unique illustration for each and every letter, this rhyming alphabet book is...

A masquerade party at the Hendricks' mansion quickly turns into a mystery when Nancy and her favorite date, Ned Nickerson, spy a stranger about to climb the rose trellis to the second story. Who is this enigmatic man in the black cloak and the...

When Mrs. Putney seeks Nancy Drew's help in recovering her stolen jewelry, the search for the thieves takes the teen-age detective and her friends Bess and George to the colorful French Quarter of New Orleans. But the quest is hampered by the strange behavior...

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew are out to solve the case of a stolen stuffed animal. River Heights has gone gaga over Make-a-Pets! Nancy and her friends are excited to make their own cuddly stuffed animals--and play the online game Petopia that goes...

In Buggy Breakout, spring has sprung, bringing...bugs? The Clue Crew must use their best detective skills to recover the Bug Club's prize insect.Author: Carolyn KeeneISBN-10: 1416978143ISBN-13: 9781416978145Publisher: Aladdin PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2010Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 7.66h x 5.06w x 0.26dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 1Interest...

Nancy Drew must search for a flight of 99 steps to solve the mystery of a friend's weird dream. Her search leads her to France, but before she leaves the United States, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not...

Nancy Drew witnesses a purse snatching and runs after the thief. She rescues the purse, but not its contents, then is asked by the owner, a doll collector, to do some detective work. Readers will enjoy Nancy's clever ways of finding all she seeks,...

We first meet Mom over a cup of coffee, clad in a floral robe. The robe is ever present as her child describes her wondrous abilities and traits. The ultimate message that shines forth is: I love my mom. And you know what? SHE...

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way...

When a fisherman finds a baby girl in his net, he and his wife are overjoyed. Their wish for a child has come true! But as the years go by, Merella, their beloved daughter, has a secret longing - a longing that will lead...

What happens when a gifted young girl creates an animated reindeer on her computer so realistic that it comes to life in cyber space? We learn that it is not by coincidence that Santa is in need of an intelligent partner in the modern...

When Loretta dropped her armload of firewood on the hearth, a mysterious tube fell from between the logs. It was a leafcutter bee nest. Loretta took it back out to the woodpile and watched as holes appeared. But where were the bees? She found...

Two little girls pepper their father with questions about whether or not they can be a profession and still be a princess. Motivated by her granddaughter's fascination with all things 'princess, ' Carole P. Roman penned this adorable poem celebrating all the wonderful possibilities...

Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She whispers to the dresses in her...

The story goes... Grandmama could hit the ball a mile, catch anything that was thrown, and do everything else -- just like Josh Gibson. But unfortunately, no matter how well a girl growing up in the 1940s played the game of baseball, she would...

* "[A] heartwarming and richly engaging tale." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review When Inge Maria Jensen's mother dies, the ten-year-old girl in braids is sent from Copenhagen to live on her grandmother's farm on the Danish island of Bornholm. The whimsical Inge is desperate to...

When Nancy Drew receives a valuable moonstone as a gift from an unknown person, she is amazed and puzzled. But it is only the first of several startling events in this complex mystery that challenge the ingenuity of the pretty sleuth. Why are the...

Set in Pennsylvania, the fifth book in the American Horse Tale series follows the story of a young girl who moves to a small rural town and begins a friendship with the horse next door. Nat is a city girl through and through. She...

A hilarious and empowering picture book about a small but strong Viking girl who is determined to be a warrior and make a name for herself. Filled with humor and heart, this clever picture book about perseverance and following your dreams stars Helga, a...

In book 6 of the Major Eights series, someone is leaving notes for the band. Do the Major Eights have a secret admirer? Scarlet is flattered when she finds a sweet message in her locker. But she doesn't know who it's from. Is it...

Friends make everything better--and so do cookies!--in this warm-hearted novel in the tradition of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, with a middle grade dash of sugar and spice. The campers in Flowerpot Cabin have nothing in common. There's Grace, the quiet one. Emma,...

Liberty Porter is your average eight-year-old girl. Except for the fact that her dad is the newly-elected President of the United States. She just moved into her new house--the White House. And she's about to start at her new school. It's hard being the...

When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. They're not the only survivors; with them are four babies. Immediately the sisters set out to make the island a home for themselves and the little ones....

The perfect gift for lovers of ghost stories. Three of Mary Downing Hahn's scariest ghost stories are in this handsome boxed set: Wait Till Helen Comes, All the Lovely Bad Ones, and Deep and Dark and Dangerous.Author: Mary Downing HahnISBN-10: 0547612206ISBN-13: 9780547612201Publisher: Clarion BooksLanguage:...

More than anything, Ida Bidson wants to become a teacher. To do that, she must finish eighth grade, then go on to high school. But her dream falters when the one-room school in her remote Colorado town shuts down. Her only hope is to...

Daddy Can Do Anything (Except Kill a Spider) is a look inside how children see their parents while rethinking traditional gender roles. Showing men as caring and loving fathers while also showing women taking on the part of the protector is essential for children....

In Smile, Sophia, a smart, relatable picture book by author/illustrator Skylaar Amann, a serious dino-loving little girl just doesn't feel like smiling...and that's okay. Sophia loves finding fossils and digging up dinosaur bones. But she doesn't love the way all the grownups just want...

Every year, Calla and her family participate in the town's showcase, but this year, she is determined to create a song garden without the help of her parents. Her friends all have great ideas, but writing a song doesn't come as easily to Calla....

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Junko Tabei, the first female climber to summit Mount Everest. Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is...

Look out for Little Women--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timoth e Chalamet, and Meryl Streep Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of the March sisters continues with this beautiful keepsake edition of Good Wives, the second novel in the Little...

A night at the museum and a broken sculpture lead to artistic injustice--unless Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew can find the true culprit! Nancy, Bess, and George are so excited. Their favorite new art teacher, Miss Alcott, is taking them on their best...

Have you ever wondered how Santa knows exactly when you fall asleep? Does he really have time to check if every single child's been naughty or nice? And do the naughty kids actually end up with coal? How Santa Really Works has the real...

Sisters are different in so many ways, yet alike in many more. But there is one heartfelt way in which they are most alike--they love each other so very much. David McPhail's celebration of the joys--and trials--of sisterhood has been a favorite with sisters...

Award winning author/adapter/illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky's Caldecott Medal Winning book! Perfect for readers of all fairy tales. "A breathtaking interpretation gives the fairy tale new art-historical roots, with illustrations that daringly-and effectively-mimic the masters of Italian Renaissance painting."--Publishers Weekly Trapped in a tower with...