New Books! New Books!Gutsy Girls
1. Happily Ever After, by Anna Quindlen (F) (for younger girls)
2. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (F)
3. Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh (F)
4. Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell (F)
5. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (F)
6. Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink (F)
7. Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt (F)
5. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (F)
6. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George (F)
8. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth G. Speare (F)
9. Jacob Have I Loved, by Catherine Patterson (F) (for older girls)
12. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan (F) (for older girls)
13. Thousand Pieces of Gold, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn (F)
14. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, by Patricia C. McKissack & Pat McKissack (F)
15. I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (F) (for older girls)
16. Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry (F)
Positive Body Image/ Eating Disorders
1. Everything You Need to Know About Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia, by Rachel Kubersky (NF)
2. Food Fight: A Guide to Eating Disorders for Pre-teens and Their parents, by Jan Bode, illustrated by Jim Carroll (NF)
3. Update: Eating Disorders, by Deborah Crisfield (NF)
4. Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters, by Joan Ryan (NF) (for older girls)
5. The Best Little Girl in the World, by Steven Levenkron (F) (for older girls)
Educating Girls
1. Math Curse, by Jon Scieszka (F) (for younger girls)
2. Overcoming Math Anxiety, by Sheila Tobias (NF) (for older girls)
3. How to Survive High School, by Michael Riera (NF) (for older girls)
Competition, Sports & Exercise
1. Who Let Girls in the Boys' Locker Room? by Elaine Moore (F)
2. Blowing Bubbles with the Enemy, by Alison Jackson (F)
3. Gwen Torrence (Grolier All-Pro Biographies), by Mark Stewart (NF) (and others in the series)
4. Winning Women: Eight Great Athletes and Their Unbeatable Stories (Sports Illustrated for Kids), by Fred McMane (NF) (and others in the series)
5. Belles of the Ballpark, by Diana Star Helmer (NF)
6. In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle, by Madeleine Blais (NF) (for older girls)
Peer Pressure & How to Avoid it
1. Jumping the Nail, by Eve Bunting (F)
2. Go Ask Alice, by anonymous (NF) (for older girls)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (F)
4. Coping with Peer Pressure (Coping Series), by Leslie S. Kaplan (NF)
Problems with Parents
1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume (F)
2. The Pigman, by Paul Zindel (Bantam) (F)
3. Anastasia Krupnik, by Lois Lowry (F)
4. My Feelings, Myself, by Lynda Madera with Area Madera (NF)
5 .How to Survive Your Parents Divorce: Kid's Advice to Kids, by Gayle Kimball (NF)
Heroines
1. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, by Russell Freedman (NF)
2. Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?, by Patricia C. McKissack & Fredrick McKissack (NF)
3. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank (NF)
Why Boys Act the Way they Do
1. The Boys Start the War, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (F) (for younger girls)
2. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier (F)
3. A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, by Alice Childress (F) (for older girls)
4. The Catcher in the Rye, by J D Salinger (F) (for older girls)
5. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (F) (for older girls)
6. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (F) (for older girls)
Growing Up
1. It's Perfectly Normal, by Robie H. Harris (NF)
2. My Body, Myself, by Lynda Madera with Area Madera (NF)
3. The Period Book, by Karen Gravelle & Jennifer Gravelle (NF)
4. It's a Girl Thing, by Mavis Jukes (NF)
5. Girl Talk: Staying Strong, Feeling Good, Sticking Together, by Judith Harlan (NF)
6. Girl Talk, by Carol Weston (NF) (for older girls)
7. The Babysitters' Club books, by Ann Martin (F) (for younger girls)
8. Alice In-Between, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (F)
9. A Greengage Summer, by Rumer Godden (F) (for older girls)
10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (F) (for older girls)
AIDS & STDs
1. Risky Times, by Jeanne Blake (NF) (for older girls)
2. Ryan White: My Own Story, by Ryan White (NF)
3. Until Whatever, by Martha Humphreys (F) (for older girls)
4. At Risk, by Alice Hoffman (F) (for older girls)
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