Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
10 best books like Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls (Jane Yolen): Beverly, Right Here, When Sadness Is at Your Door, Displacement: A Travelogue, Dovey Coe, The World of Lore: Dreadful Places, The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, Drinking at the Movies, Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War, Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World, The Taken
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763694649 |
Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.
Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted....
When Sadness Is at Your Door
| Author | Eva Eland |
| ISBN | 0525707182 |
In the style of Harold and the Purple Crayon comes a picture-book primer in emotional literacy and mindfulness that suggests we approach the feeling of sadness as if it is our guest.
Sadness can be scary and confusing at any age! When we feel sad, especially for long periods of time, it can seem...
Displacement: A Travelogue
| Author | Lucy Knisley |
| ISBN | 1606998102 |
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...
| Author | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| ISBN | 0689846673 |
My name is Dovey Coe and I reckon it don't matter if you like me or not. I'm here to lay the record straight, to let you know them folks saying I done a terrible thing are liars. I aim to prove it, too. I hated Parnell Caraway as much as the next person, but I didn't kill him.
Dovey Coe says what's on her...
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
| Author | Aaron Mahnke |
| ISBN | 1524798029 |
Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore--now a streaming television series--including "Echoes," "Withering Heights," and "Behind Closed Doors" as well as rare material.
Sometimes you walk into a room, a building,...
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country.
Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no...
| Author | Julia Wertz |
| ISBN | 0307591832 |
In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over...
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War
| Author | Yukio Tsuchiya |
| ISBN | 0395861373 |
Although Yukio Tsuchiya's 1988 picture book Faithful Elephants (well actually, the author wrote the story in the immediate post WWII period, in 1951, but this here picture book was originally published in 1988) most definitely has a strong and also powerful anti-war (and thus also a pro peace) message,...
| Author | Kathleen Ragan |
| ISBN | 0393320464 |
Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and...
| Author | Vicki Pettersson |
| ISBN | 0062064649 |
“Exceptional. Mystery, crime scene drama, and more than enough romance to keep the heart pumping blend seamlessly into an enthralling read that kept me glued to the pages.”
—Kim Harrison
“A delectably dark paranormal thriller. I’ve always been a fan of Pettersson’s work,...
| Author | Lorena Alvarez Gomez |
| ISBN | 1910620343 |
I had expected this to be a tale about environmental conservation, specifically wetlands. To some degree, it is, but that degree is small. This is more about the power of imagination and creation, the ability to bring life and passion into your projects, to grow something bigger than you. And also about...
