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Strong Female Characters in Books for Eleventh Grade Students
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March 1999
Compiled by Alan Nichter
of Lutz Branch Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Tina Ansa The Hand I Fan With, Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways
Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye
Jean Auel Clan of the Cave Bear
Sue Ellen Bridgers Home Before Dark
Anne Bronte Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Bruce Brooks Midnight Hour Encores
Octavia Butler Kindred
Kate Chopin The Awakening
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street
Mary Higgins Clark Where Are the Children?
Karin Cook What Girls Learn
Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta series
Donna Woolfolk Cross Pope Joan
Chris Crutcher Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Sandra Dallas Persian Pickle Club, Buster's Midnight's Cafe
Diane Day Fremont Jones series
Rebecca Harding Davis Life in the Iron Mills
Sarah Dessen Someone Like You
Peter Dickinson Eva
John Farris When Michael Calls
Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
Miles Franklin My Brilliant Career
Kaye Gibbons Charms for an Easy Life, Ellen Foster, Things Not Seen
Dorothy Gilman The Tightrope Walker
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
Olivia Goldsmith Switcheroo
Sue Grafton Kinsey Millhone series
Elizabeth Hailey An Independent Woman
Thomas Harris Silence of the Lambs
Laurell Hamilton Anita Blake, Vampire Slayer
Jim Harrison Dalva
Jim Harrison The Road Home
Peter Hoeg Smilla's Sense of Snow
Alice Hoffman Turtle Moon, Seventh Heaven
Pam Houston Cowboys Are My Weakness
Pam Houston Waltzing the Cat
Josephine Humphries Rich in Love
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Elizabeth Jolley The Well
Welwyn Wilton Katz Whalesinger
Laurie King The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Monstrous Regiment of Women
Barbara Kingsolver Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven
Annette Curtis Klause The Silver Kiss
Margaret Lawrence Hearts and Bones
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Billie Letts Where the Heart Is
Sonia Levitin Incident at Loring Groves
Robin McKinley Beauty
Jo-Ann Mapson Hank and Chloe
Norma Fox Mazer Out of Control
Beryl Markam West with the Night
Miriam Grace Monfredo Glynis Tryon series
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye, Beloved
Katherine Neville The Eight
Robert C. O'Brien Z for Zachariah
Whitney Otto How to Make an American Quilt, Now You See Her Now You Don't, The Passion Dream Box
Sara Paretsky V.I. Warshawski novels
Gary Paulsen The Night the White Deer Died
Ann Petry The Street
Meredith Ann Pierce The Woman Who Loved Reindeer
Ann Rice Witching Hour
J.D. Robb Eve Dallas series
Rosemary Rogers Sweet Savage Love
Dori Sanders Her Own Place
Saphire Push
Nevil Shute A Town Like Alice
Lee Smith Fair and Tender Ladies
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Anne Tyler Ladder of Years
Cynthia Voigt When She Hollers, Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Michael C. White A Brother's Blood
Virginia Euwer Wolff Make Lemonade
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