Happy International Women’s Day!
We love reading about heroines and leading ladies all through the year, but today we’re taking the time to truly appreciate and celebrate them – in quirky listicle form.
Our friends over at Date a Book have rounded up six of their favourite YA female protagonists who remind us what women and girls are capable of, in both life and fiction.
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A high stakes YA sports romance following an elite gymnast caught between her head, her heart and the competition of a lifetime. Perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Jenny Han. -
Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan's Labyrinth. -
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Season 2 streaming now! -
From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, WORDS OF RADIANCE, and the internationally bestselling MISTBORN series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future. -
Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, darkly provoking and deeply romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. -
Read the book behind the upcoming NETFLIX movie launching on 3rd March 2021, directed by and starring Amy Poehler.When an unlikely teenager stands up to sexism in her high school she unwittingly starts a feminist revolution that shakes her whole town. It's time to fight like a girl!
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