Fiction with Great Female Characters

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The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
F STOCKETT
In Jackson Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the Civil Rights Movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women – black and white, mothers and daughters – view one another.

These is My Words
By Nancy E. Turner
F TURNER
This is the fictionalized diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 17, who goes from New Mexico to Texas and back, protecting her family with her rifle. She recounts the trials and heartache of settling the Arizona Territory but also the joys of life that helped her to keep moving forward.

The Blue Castle
By L.M. Montgomery
YA F MONTGOMERY
At 29, Valancy has always done what everyone expects of her until she receives a letter from her doctor telling her she only has a short time to live. For the first time in her life she does and says exactly what she wants and soon discovers a world of love and adventure.

Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins
YA F COLLINS
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place.

Mistborn
By Brandon Sanderson
SCIFI SANDERSO
Kelsier, a half-Skaa, finds in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he recruits the best criminal crew ever assembled to engineer the downfall of the Lord Ruler. The plan seems impossible until Kelsier discovers Vin, a street urchin who has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed. This is the first book in the Mistborn Trilogy.