Teen Girls Adventures

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• Teen books
• Adventure
• Spunky female characters

The Princetta
By Anne-Laure Bondoux
YA F BONDOUX
Rebelling against the rigid constraints of her life as Princetta of Galnicia, fifteen-year-old Malva escapes with her maid Philomena and together they embark on a perilous and adventurous journey that will change the course of their lives forever.

Piratica
By Tanith Lee
YA F LEE
Artemesia is the daughter of a pirate queen, and she’s sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping from the school, she hunts up her mother’s crew and breezily commands them out to sea in a leaky boat. But her childhood memory of her mother’s piratical life might not be as accurate as she thought.

Bloody Jack
By L.A. Meyer
YA F MEYER
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.

The Ruby in the Smoke
By Philip Pullman
YA F PULLMAN
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby, encountering a pirate along the way.

Pirates: The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates
By Celia Rees
YA F REES
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

On Fortune’s Wheel
By Cynthia Voigt
YA F VOIGT
In this romantic adventure, Birle, the innkeeper’s daughter, pursues a would-be thief only to fall in love with him. They are shipwrecked, rescued by pirates, sold into slavery, eventually escape and head home.

Star Crossed
By Elizabeth Bunce
YA F BUNCE
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.