Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women
Maggie Lou, Firefox
Maggie Lou’s grandpa doesn’t call her Firefox for nothing. She’s always finding ways to make life more interesting — even if this means getting into big trouble.
When her grandfather Moshôm ...
Wednesday Wilson Connects the Dots
Will an insult (and Ruby Beautiful?!) spark Wednesday Wilson's next business idea?
When Wednesday Wilson and her best friend, Charlie, get an unexpected day off from school, they plan to work on a new ...
World Shakers
What does it take to change the world? Whether it was the rule that forced Muslim women athletes like Ibtihaj Muhammad to choose between competition and wearing hijab or Indigenous women like Mary Two-Axe ...
A Pocket of Time
Before becoming a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Elizabeth Bishop lived with her Gammie and Pa on a rural farm, learning to walk, to read and write, to sing hymns, and to catch bumblebees in foxglove ...
Boonoonoonous Hair
In this beautifully illustrated picture book a young girl learns to love her difficult-to-manage but electric, kinetic, bombastic, fantastic, twirly, whirly, curly, fuzzy, snappy, nappy, wavy, crazy, ...
Flannery
A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed Lisa Moore.
Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s ...
A Cave in the Clouds
Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom.
Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured ...
nipêhon / I Wait
A quiet, gentle story about a family working together written in Cree and English.
A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and ...
What's My Superpower?
Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for ...
Fired Up about Reproductive Rights
Decades after abortion was legalized and decriminalized in places like Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, why are we still fighting for reproductive rights? Shattering the myth that the ...