Post date:
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Enjoy these teen reads for Women's History Month.
Historical Teen Fiction:
- The Good Braider: a novel by Terry Farish — Sudanese refugees
- Copper Sun by Sharon Draper — 1700s American slavery
- Newes from the Dead: Being a True Story of Anne Green, Hanged for Infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, Restored to the World and Died Again 1665 by Mary Hooper — 1650 Oxford, England
- Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl — 19th Century England
- Gilt by Katerine Longshore — Tudor England
- The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano — Puerto Rican communities and history in 1960s New York City
- The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller — 1918 Russia
- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys — 1950s New Orleans
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein — World War II
- In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters — The 1918 Spanish Influenza in America
Historical Heroines:
- I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II by Cheryl Mullenbach
- Amanda Barnhart is a Young Adult Associate at the Trails West Branch