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Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World

10 best books like Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World (Katrin Hyman Tchana): King Stork, Remembering Mrs. Rossi, Shakespeare's Spy, Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World, Who Comes with Cannons?, Evvy's Civil War, Mermaid Tales from Around the World

King Stork
AuthorHoward Pyle
ISBN0688158137
Minimal dragons and lions, despite what the blurb implies. No dragons, no lions, despite what the blurb says. I can't tell for sure, but I don't think the text is Pyle's original (despite no mention of an adaptation, when I find picture captions for Pyle's original art the language is much more archaic)....
Remembering Mrs. Rossi
AuthorAmy Hest
ISBN0763621633
Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.

Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....
Shakespeare's Spy
AuthorGary L. Blackwood
ISBN0142403113
Things are disappearing mysteriously from Will Shakespeare's acting company, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the orphan boy turned actor, and former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence...
Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel
AuthorPatricia Storace
ISBN0786807911

"You live in a tower without a stair,
Sugar Cane, Sugar Cane, let down your hair."

Stolen away from her parents on her first birthday by island sorceress Madam Fate, beautiful Sugar Cane grows up in a tower overlooking the sea. With only a pet green monkey named Callaloo for company,...
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0152020470
These thirteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, brawny, brave heroines--and not one damsel in distress! From Bradamante, the fierce female medieval knight, to Li Chi, the Chinese girl who slays a dreaded serpent and saves her town, these heroines use their cunning, wisdom, and strength...
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
AuthorMarianna Mayer
ISBN0688085008
Sweet, lovely Vasilisa lives with her jealous stepmother and stepsisters on the edge of a dark forest inhabited by the evil witch Baba Yaga. One night the stepmother sends Vasilisa to visit Baba Yaga, an errand from which the gentle girl has little chance of returning alive. "An engaging text and accomplished...
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
AuthorCynthia Chin-Lee
ISBN1570915229
“Reading people's life stories inspired me. I could empathize with their struggles, glory in their achievements, and use their examples to overcome the obstacles in my life” (Cynthia Chin-Lee – Author’s Note). Although the count of influential women is way more than twenty-six, this stellar...
Who Comes with Cannons?
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688110282
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
Evvy's Civil War
AuthorMiriam Brenaman
ISBN0399237135
On her fourteenth birthday in June of 1861, spunky Evelyn Chamberlyn finds herself stuffed into a corset, a dress with hoops and a hairstyle so ornate she calls it the Edifice. It is time for her to be introduced to society-no more climbing fences and jumping into streams. She is expected to be a lady now....
Mermaid Tales from Around the World
AuthorMary Pope Osborne
OMG guys!!!! Look!!! Mermaids!!!!!


So I found this as I was cleaning out an old closet and totally forgot that I stole this from a library when I lived in Virginia a decade ago. Shhhhhh.....don't tell Erica.

So I decided to delve in. I've been in a mermaid place lately. I need to get...
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World
AuthorEthel Johnston Phelps
ISBN0805006796
The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, courageous and smart. This type of heroine is not easily...
The Burning Time
AuthorCarol Matas
ISBN1551436248
Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life...
Spacer and Rat
AuthorMargaret Bechard
ISBN1596430583
Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships....
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
Vampire Island
AuthorAdele Griffin
ISBN0399237852
Life isn't easy for vegetarian vampires trying to blend in with regular people in a new city. The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left Old World dangers, and immortality, behind for a "normal" ”life in New York City. But normal doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially with lingering...
Merlin and the Making of the King
AuthorMargaret Hodges
In this collection of three exciting Arthurian legends, Merlin the magician watches over young Arthur as he rises to become king of all England. But many threats befall Arthur in the kingdom of Camelot: the evil witch Morgan le Fay, the traitor Mordred, and even his best friend, Sir Launcelot. Will the...
Ojingogo
AuthorMatthew Forsythe
ISBN1897299699
Many will complain about the book because it bucks narrative conventions on linearity and language, but those exact factors are what makes it genius. The basic message, if there can be said to be one is that things grow larger and become menacing, things grow smaller and become friendly, and cameras...
Beauty and the Beast
AuthorMahlon F. Craft
ISBN0060539194
Award-winning team Mahlon and Kinuko Craft bring us a gorgeous and vivid retelling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast in this stunningly illustrated picture book.

The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose from the garden of a beast. His beautiful daughter sacrifices herself to...
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
AuthorLaurie Halse Anderson
ISBN0689858086
Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part?

Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched...
Dear Mili
AuthorWilhelm Grimm
ISBN0060543124
These illustrations are beautiful, a scary version of William Morris telling a dark fairytale of a girl and her mother that live by the woods. Soldiers come to their village so the mother takes the little girl to the woods and tells her to hide and return to her in three days. The little girl waits for three...
Jim Henson's Labyrinth Tales
AuthorCory Godbey
ISBN1608869318
“What a flabbergastingly delightful series of events! Where ever to begin?”

Experience the endlessly imaginative world of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth through the eyes of its most fantastical and beloved characters! Witness a day in the life of Sir Didymus, the recklessly heroic fox-terrier;...
The Mountains of Tibet
AuthorMordicai Gerstein
ISBN0064432114
In a tiny village, high in the mountains of Tibet, lives a woodcutter. All his life he has longed to travel to faraway places, to see the world. But he grows old without ever leaving the mountian. When he dies, he is suddenly offered the chance to live another life, in any form he wants, anywhere in the galaxies....
Children of the Sea, Volume 3
AuthorDaisuke Igarashi
ISBN1421529203
Reads R to L (Japanese Style). The sea has a story to tell, one you've never heard before...

Ruka is traumatized when Sora disappears into the night sea right in front of her. But although she refuses to speak of the incident, the meteorite Sora made her swallow is not so silent. It whispers to her...
Bayou Vol. 2
AuthorJeremy Love
ISBN1401225845
South of the Mason-Dixon Line lies a strange land of gods and monsters; a world parallel to our own, born from centuries of slavery, civil war, and hate. Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate,...
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