Juvenile & Young Adult / Themes / Girls & Women

A Quest of Heroes (Book #1 in the Sorcerer's Ring)

by Morgan Rice

“THE SORCERER’S RING has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valiant knights, and blossoming relationships replete with broken hearts, deception and betrayal. It will...

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)

by Sarah Mlynowski

Praised by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Myracle as “hilarious, moving and flat-out fun,” and Kirkus as a “pitch-perfect rendering…of the teen experience,” Ten Things We Did (and Probably...

Hidden

by Donna Jo Napoli

A young girl must learn to survive and find her family against all odds in this heartbreaking companion to Hush from award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli.

Lost at sea when her sister is taken captive on a marauding...

Picture Perfect #4: Between Us

by Cari Simmons & Melinda Metz

Being one half of a BFF heart necklace is serious business—and in the Picture Perfect series, each story tackles a tough friendship challenge. Through the ups and downs of life in middle school, through braces...

Midnight Dolls

by Kiki Sullivan

Pretty Little Liars meets Beautiful Creatures in this thrilling follow-up to Kiki Sullivan's The Dolls.

It's only been a couple of months since Eveny Cheval discovered that she's a powerful queen of zandara,...

Sweet Secrets

by Helen Perelman & Erica-Jane Waters

Berry the Fruit Fairy is excited to enter a fashion contest, but when she overhears a secret, it may not be fair game in this Candy Fairies adventure.

It’s a Candy Fairies Fashion Show! Top fashion designer...

Sacagawea

by Flora Warren Seymour & Robert Doremus

Learn about the childhood of Sacagawea, one of the first female all-stars in American history—and honored in US currency on the dollar coin.

Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and...

Green with Envy

by Jessica Burkhart & Victoria Ying

Bella feels jealous for the first time when her cousin visits Crystal Castle and gets along a little too well with Glimmer in the third book in the Unicorn Magic series!

Princess Bella is super excited to have...

Matt's Story

by Lauren Gibaldi

We've seen Ella's story in The Night We Said Yes, but now we'll hear Matt's tale in this e-original novella from Lauren Gibaldi.

Seventeen-year-old Matt had the perfect life in Orlando. He met the girl of his...

Lark

by Tracey Porter

When sixteen-year-old Lark Austin is kidnapped from her Virginia hometown and left to die in a snowy forest, she leaves behind two friends who are stunned by the loss. As Lark's former best friend, Eve can't...

Aphrodite the Fair

by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

Aphrodite has her hands full with Eris, who loves to stir up mischief, in this Goddess Girls adventure.

Eris is a goddess girl who has a penchant for causing trouble. So when her brother, Ares, is celebrating...

The Year of the Rat

by Clare Furniss

Pearl deals with death, life, and family in this haunting, humorous, and poignant debut that School Library Journal calls a “well-written depiction of adolescence and the pervasive, perplexing nature of loss.”...

From This Moment

by Lauren Barnholdt

Each book in The Moment of Truth trilogy is told from the perspective of former best friends Lyla, Aven, and Quinn. When they were freshman, they wrote emails to themselves about one thing they hoped to accomplish...

Picturing Alyssa

by Alison Lohans

Every time Alyssa looks at an old family portrait, she lands on an Iowa farm in 1931. The past is nothing like Alyssas unhappy life, and Alyssa finds herself wanting to live on the farm with her new friend,...

Never Wear Red Lipstick on Picture Day

by Allison Gutknecht & Stevie Lewis

The spirited and sassy eight-year-old Mandy Berr strives to look—and behave!—her best in this sweet and funny tale.

Class Picture Day is fast approaching, and Mandy Berr is looking for the perfect accessory...

Island of Secrets

by Carolyn Keene

There is danger in the wind and scandal in the sand—and now Nancy’s about to discover where the bodies are buried!

Behind the rustic charm of beautiful Block Island lurks an ugly secret...a secret worth...

Squeeze Play

by Carolyn Keene

Nancy Drew comes to the aid of Sean Reeves, the star pitcher of the River Heights Falcons, when his young daughter is kidnapped and the price of her release is for him to lose the championship game.

The Runaway Bride

by Carolyn Keene

Nancy’s in Tokyo to attend the wedding of her friend, Midori Kato, but the guests are greeted with a most shocking announcement: the bride has disappeared! Will Nancy’s sleuthing enable Midori to keep her...

Chasing Gold

by Catherine Hapka

When all of Haley’s time goes to training her pony, keeping an eye on the prize causes problems in this third book in a contemporary middle grade series in the tradition of Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague...