Passing the Bechdel Test
Top 10 Passing the Bechdel Test : The Jane Austen Book Club, A Little Princess, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Warrior's Path, Noah's Wife, Princess Academy, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Meet Samantha: An American Girl, Meet Molly: An American Girl
The Jane Austen Book Club
| Author | Karen Joy Fowler |
| ISBN | 0452286530 |
A Little Princess
| Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| ISBN | 0142437018 |
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
| Author | Trenton Lee Stewart |
| ISBN | 0316057800 |
The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance...
Half of a Yellow Sun
| Author | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| ISBN | 1400044162 |
The Warrior's Path
| Author | Catherine M. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0981563619 |
| Author | T.K. Thorne |
| ISBN | 0983787808 |
Princess Academy
| Author | Shannon Hale |
| ISBN | 1599900734 |
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0060575808 |
Meet Samantha: An American Girl
| Author | Susan S. Adler |
| ISBN | 0937295809 |
Meet Molly: An American Girl
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295817 |
Beezus and Ramona
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0192750968 |
Molly's Surprise: A Christmas Story
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295876 |
Like Water for Chocolate
| Author | Laura Esquivel |
| ISBN | 0552995878 |
The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller...
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0590259881 |
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never...
The Midwife's Apprentice
| Author | Karen Cushman |
Born Confused
| Author | Tanuja Desai Hidier |
| ISBN | 0545664519 |
Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. She's spent her whole life resisting her parents' traditions. But now she's turning seventeen and things are more complicated...
| Author | Victoria Hanley |
| ISBN | 0440229774 |
| Author | Lindsey Barraclough |
| ISBN | 0370331966 |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
| Author | Muriel Barbery |
| ISBN | 1933372605 |
We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly...
The Casual Vacancy
| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| ISBN | 0316228532 |
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich...
The Tombs of Atuan
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0689845367 |
When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away - home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the...
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0062049801 |
| Author | Belinda Jack |
| ISBN | 0300120451 |
This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the...
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0545297052 |
In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns...
| Author | Stephanie Grant |
| ISBN | 1416556222 |
Saga, Vol. 1
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1607066017 |
From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds....
The Woman Warrior
| Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| ISBN | 0679721886 |
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
| Author | Firoozeh Dumas |
| ISBN | 0812968379 |
The Thirteenth Tale
| Author | Diane Setterfield |
| ISBN | 0743298020 |
The enigmatic Winter has spent...
Meet Addy: An American Girl
| Author | Connie Rose Porter |
| ISBN | 1562470752 |
from slavery in the summer of 1864. But before they can make the escape, the worst happens--Master Stevens decides to sell some of his slaves, including Poppa and Addy's brother, Sam. Addy and Momma take the terrible risk of escaping by themselves,...