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May 22, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Take 5: Amelia Bloomer Project and Feminist Books

May 22, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS   2 comments

If you’re looking for feminist books, you definitely want to check out The Amelia Bloomer Project.  Sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association, this committee of librarians creates a recommended bibliography every year of new books that have significant feminist content for youth ages birth through 18.  Being a booklist like the Rainbow Project, their process is open, and they post titles on their blog as they are nominated.  They also take field submissions as well. 


Scrolling through the titles that they currently have listed for the 2014 list (to be announced at the Midwinter Meeting in January 2014 at Philadelphia) I have to say my favorites so far are these:


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Atwell, Mary Stewart. Wild Girls: A Novel. 2012. 288 p. Scribner, $25.00 (978-1451683271). Gr. 10 and up. 

Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachian town of Swan River: that she’ll be a frustrated townie forever or that she’ll turn into one of the mysterious and terrifying wild girls, killers who start fires and menace the community.


Molley, Aimee. However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph. 2013. 272p. HarperOne, $25.99 (978-0062132765). Gr. 10-up. 

In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa.


King, A.S. Ask the Passengers.  2012. 393p.  Little Brown, $17.99 (978-0-316-19468-6). Gr. 10-up.

Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother’s pushiness and her father’s lack of interest tell her they’re the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhead. She doesn’t know the passengers inside, but they’re the only people who won’t judge her when she asks them her most personal questions . . . like what it means that she’s falling in love with a girl. 
We all know that Karen loves this book and says everyone should read it, right?


Brill, Amy. The Movement of Stars. 2013. 400p. Riverhead Books, $27.95 (978-1594487446). Gr. 10-up. 

A love story set in 1845 Nantucket, between a female astronomer and the unusual man who understands her dreams.


Abdi, Hawa. Keeping Hope Alive. Grand Central Publishing, 2013. 272p. $26.99 978-1-455-0376-6 

The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. 

What are your favorite books for young women?  Share with us in the comments.

Annotations from book descriptions on Goodreads.com

Filed under: A. S. King, Aimee Molley, Amelia Bloomer Project, Amy Brill, Booklists, Feminism, Hawa Abdi, Mary Stewart Atwell

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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Comments

  1. Rachelia says

    May 22, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    Love this (and the image at the start of the article!)!

    Wild Girls has been sitting on my e-reader for a while. Hadn't heard about many of these except Ask the Passenger (which I'm going to get to this summer, I'm determined)!

    The Movement of Stars sounds fascinating as does Keeping Hope Alive!

    I'm taking part in a feminist reading challenge this year so I've been tracking them. An indie one I just read, Harem by Safia Fazlul was a hard read but touched on so many important subjects in a feminist manner, and did so while recognizing intersectionality — it was fantastic and very thought provoking! It's definitely older YA (or NA) though.

  2. Teen Librarian's Toolbox, Karen says

    May 23, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    Rachelia, you always leave the best comments! That is so cool that you are taking part in a feminist reading challenge. I would love to hear more about it. Will be watching your blog for sure. Karen

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