BOOKS 4 GIRLS!

Many of you requested to see a list of terrific books on many topics of interest to girls. Do you know of a good book we forgot to add to this list? Let us know!


Featured Books Career Books
List of Books 4 Girls Your Favorites
Free Spirit Press Books
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Featured Books


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Career Books

  • Turn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness
    Written by Darcie Sanders and Martha M. Bullen
 
  • Making Cents: Every Kid's Guide to Money: How to Make It, What to Do With It
    Written by Elizabeth Wilkinson and Martha Weston
 
  • 50 Money Making Ideas for Kids
    Written by L. Allen Burkett and Mark Herron

    For more information and how to order these money making books, visit Amazon, Inc.
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List of Books 4 Girls

  1. Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul : 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning Written by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, 1997

  2. Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth. Written by Rosa Parks, with Gregory J. Reed, Lee and Low Books, 1997.

  3. Finding Our Way: The Teen Girls Survival Guide. Written by Allison Abner and Linda Villarosa, HarperPerrenial Publishing, 1995.

  4. Girl Power! -- Young Women Speak Out! Written by Hillary Carlip, Warner Books, 1995.

  5. Girl Power! Diary

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Free Spirit Press Books

The following Free Spirit Press books are available at your local bookstore, at your school or local library, or from Free Spirit Press.


  1. Becoming Myself: True Stories about Learning from Life, by Cassandra Walker Simmons.

  2. Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens, by Earl Hipp.

  3. Girls & Young Women Inventing:Twenty True Stories About Inventors PLUS How You Can Be One Yourself, by Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D., and Suzanne M. Bean, Ph.D.

  4. Girls and Young Women Leading the Way: 20 True Stories about Leadership, by Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D., and Suzanne M. Bean, Ph.D.

  5. The Kid's Guide to Service Projects: Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want to Make a Difference, by Barbara A. Lewis

  6. Kids With Courage: True stories about young people making a difference, by Barbara A. Lewis.

  7. STORIES FROM MY LIFE, by Cassandra Walker Simmons.

  8. Taking Charge of My Mind and Body: A Girl's Guide to Outsmarting Alcohol, Drug, Smoking and Eating Problems, by Gladys Folkers and Jeanne Englemann.

  9. Totally Private and Personal: Journaling Ideas for Girls and Young Women, by Jessica Wilber

  10. Making the Most of Today: Daily Readings for Young People on Self-Awareness, Creativity, and Self-Esteem, by Pamela Espeland & Rosemary Wallner.

  11. Psychology for Kids II: 40 Fun Experiments That Help You Learn About Others, by Jonni Kincher. Find out if you are an "innie" or an "outtie." Click here to go to visit Girl Zone and take one of the quizzes found in the book!

  12. The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Writer, by Janet. E. Grant.

  13. The Right Moves: A Girls Guide to Getting Fit and Feeling Good, by Tina Schwager, P.T.A., A.T.,C. and Michele Schuerger.
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Your Favorites

We asked you tell us your favorite books. Below are your recommendations. Print out this list and run--don't walk!--to the nearest library. For more information online and how to order these favorite books, visit Amazon, Inc.

  • Girls Know Best

  • The Unicorn Club

  • Annie's Choice

  • Captain Underpants

  • Sidhartha

  • Witch of Blackbird Pond

  • Baby by Patricia MacLaughlan

  • Snot Stew

  • Wounded Warriors

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • Animorphs

  • Friends Forever by Judy Blume

  • Here's to You by Rachel Robinson

  • Gone with the Wind

  • Socks

  • Nancy Drew

  • Pizza Puzzle

  • Chasing Redbird

  • Molly Saves the Day

  • Clueless: Cher's Guide to...Whatever

  • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

  • Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

  • Grandfather Toad's Secrets

  • Elizabeth Valentine

  • The Doll in the Garden

  • Indian in Dead Man's Creek

  • Reviving Ophelia

  • Are you there God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume

  • Forever by Judy Blume

  • Walk Two Moons

  • California Diaries

  • A Very Personal Computer

  • A Wrinkle in Time

  • Sula by Toni Morrison

  • Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

  • School's Out by Johanna Hurwitz

  • Bad Girls by Cynthia Voigt

  • I Won't Let Them Hurt You

  • Absolutely Normal Chaos

  • Brave New Girls

  • Six Months to Live

  • The Rainbow Bridge

  • The Golden Compass

  • Little Women

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