March is Women's History Month! What better time to check out a book from the Amelia Bloomer Project's list of recommended feminist literature for children from ages 0-18? Below are this year's top 10 list. Click here to see the full list of this year's Amelia Bloomer Project recommendations. And click here to learn more about Amelia Bloomer, the noted American suffragist.
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The poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world. |
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Speak : the graphic novel
by Laurie Halse Anderson Adapted by the author and featuring artwork by an Eisner Award winner, a graphic novel edition of the award-winning novel follows the experiences of a girl who is rendered an outcast for her role in breaking up an end-of-summer party during which she was raped by a popular boy. |
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Damsel
by Elana K Arnold Required to slay a dragon and rescue a damsel to be his bride in order to inherit, a crown prince astonishes the girl of his choice, who has no memory of her capture by a dragon and who discovers unsettling truths about the legends shaping their lives. |
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Crush
by Svetlana Chmakova When the group dynamic among Jorge's friends starts to shift, he must learn to balance what his friends expect of him and what he really wants. |
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Learning to breathe
by Janice Lynn Mather Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau. |
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Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible. |
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Amal unbound
by Aisha Saeed Forced to leave school to care for her siblings in accordance with Pakistani village tradition, a disappointed Amal suffers an accidental run-in with the son of a corrupt landlord and is forced into indentured servitude, where her witness to her master's nefarious dealings compels her to make risky alliances in support of change. |
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Sugar and snails
by Sarah Tsiang When the traditional rhyme about what boys and girls are made of just doesn't fit his grandchildren, a grandpa comes up with a list of unusual alternative, and soon the children are coming up with their own versions. |
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Naondel
by Maria Turtschaninoff A prequel to the award-winning Maresi traces the story of the First Sisters and founders of the Red Abbey female utopia, describing how, at great cost, they escaped from a man with dark-magic powers and struggled to trust each other in a world of oppression and exploitation. |