Great Books for Girls

Fancy Nancy

By Jane O’Connor

Call
#: JP O’Connor

A
young girl
who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special
night.

Muncha, Muncha, Muncha

By Candace Fleming

Call
#: JP Fleming

After
planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to
find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his
vegetables.

Don’t let
the pigeon drive the bus

By Mo Willems

Call
#: JP Willems

A
funny
pigeon tries everything to get you to let him drive the bus while the
bus driver is away.

Duck! Rabbit!

By Amy Rosenthal and tom
Lichtenfield

Call
#:JP Rosenthal

Is
it a
duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it!

What’s the
time Grandma Wolf

By Ken Brown

Call
#: JP Brown

A
group of brave, or foolhardy, little animals creeps closer and closer
to Grandma Wolf as she gets down the stewpot, chops wood, lights a
fire, and prepares to fix dinner, with a surprising outcome.

Dragon Slippers

By Jessica Day George  (Utah author)

Call
#: JF George

Orphaned
after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly
inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.

Moving Day (Allie
Finkle’s rules for girls series)

By  Meg
Cabot

Call
#:JF Cabot

Nine-year-old
Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule
book,
but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is
moving
across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and
plenty of
new rules.

Annie’s
Adventures

By Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Call
#: JF Baratz-Logsted

On
New Year’s Eve, the octuplets Huit–Annie, Durinda, Georgia,
Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia–discover that their parents
are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that
each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what
happened to their parents.

Diamond Willow

By Helen Frost

Call
#: JF Frost

In
a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with
their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more
popular,
all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the
spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.

Which Witch

By Eva Ibbotson

Call
#: JF Ibbotson

Deciding
that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light
and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a
competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him

Terrier

By Tamora Pierce

Call
#: YF Pierce

When
sixteen-year-old Beka becomes “Puppy” to a pair of “Dogs,” as the
Provost’s Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural
abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a
murdered baby in Tortall’s Lower City.

Sisterhood of the
Travelling pants

By Ann Brashares

Call
#: YF Brashares

Four
best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a
magical pair of pants

Pretties

By Scott Westerfield

Call
#: YF Westerfield

Tally’s
transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot
boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and
freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life
because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.

Book of a Thousand Days

By Shannon Hale

Call
#: YF Hale

Fifteen-year-old
Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren,
shares Saren’s years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her
safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are
as they work as kitchen maids.

Gossip Girl

By Cecily von Ziegesar

Call
#: YF Von Ziegesar

Presents
a world of jealousy and betrayal at an exclusive private school in Manhattan.