Bad Girls & Wicked Women: The Most Powerful, Shocking, Amazing, Thrilling and Dangerous Women of All Time

9 best books like Bad Girls & Wicked Women: The Most Powerful, Shocking, Amazing, Thrilling and Dangerous Women of All Time (Jan Stradling): Princess Academy, May Bird and the Ever After, Waiting for Normal, Prisoners in the Palace, Turtle in Paradise, Wrapped, May Bird, Warrior Princess, Lucky Breaks, 一人交換日記

Princess Academy

Author	Shannon Hale
ISBN	1599900734

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of...

May Bird and the Ever After

Author

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Most people aren't very comfortable in the woods, but the woods of Briery Swamp fit May Bird like a fuzzy mitten. There, she is safe from school and the taunts and teases of kids who don't understand her. Hidden in the trees, May is a warrior princess, and her cat, Somber Kitty, is her brave guardian. Then...

Waiting for Normal

Author	Leslie Connor
ISBN	0060890886

This poignant and joyful novel is filled with meaningful moments and emotional resonance.

Addie is waiting for normal. But Addie's mother has an all-or-nothing approach to life: a food fiesta or an empty pantry, her way or no way.

Addie’s mother is bipolar, and she often neglects...

Prisoners in the Palace

Author	Michaela MacColl
ISBN	0811873005

London, 1838. Sixteen-year-old Liza's dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in an accident. Penniless, she accepts the position of lady's maid to young Princess Victoria and steps unwittingly into the gossipy intrigue of the servant's world below-stairs as well as the...

Turtle in Paradise

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0375836888

Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.

She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...

Wrapped

Author	Jennifer Bradbury
ISBN	1416990070

Agnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the wrappings, about to unlock ancient (and not-so-ancient) history.

Maybe you think this girl is wearing a pith helmet with antique dust swirling around her.

Maybe you think she is a young Egyptologist...

May Bird, Warrior Princess

Author	Jodi Lynn Anderson
ISBN	0689869258

At Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. Then she went on a long trip to the land of the dead, where ghost towns glowed blue in the dark dusk and spooky specters dwelled in cities on the Dead Sea.

Back on Earth at last, May and her hairless cat, Somber Kitty, are now...

Lucky Breaks

Author	Susan Patron
ISBN	1416939989

"Eleven is much more intrepid than only ten."

On the eve of her eleventh birthday, Lucky wants to let loose and become intrepid; she's ready for life to change. But Hard Pan (population 43) drones on like it always has: Lincoln all tied up in knotty matters, Miles newly diagnosed as a genius but...

一人交換日記

Author	Kabi Nagata
ISBN	4091893201

I don't know what to write in this review. This series has become very personal to me.
Things that I never realized in my life were described here that caught my attention and began to make sense.
This is a very intimate and striking reading as well as exciting. From the drawings that illustrate...