View source for Feminist SF for YA (Liz Henry)

This list was originally drafted in the mid-1990s.

I am considering speculative fiction -- science fiction, and fantasy in the broad sense (ghost stories, etc.) -- appropriate for or intended for young people, that meets some of the following criteria:
* Strong female protagonist
* Gender-fair
* Sexuality or sexism is a theme

; Links:
* [http://www.cyberteens.com/ezine/Issue5/Issue5TOC/Issue5TOC.html Zeen]. By & for teenagers. Don't miss it!
* [http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/young_adult_lib_ass/yateens.html Young Adult Librarians Association]
* [http://www.cyberkids.com/Launchpad/BannerPages/Books.html Cyberkids book page]
* [gopher://lib.NMSU.EDU:70/00/.subjects/Education/.childlit/.bibliographies/Brave%2C%20Active%2C%20%26%20Resourceful%20Females%20in%20Picture%20Books Brave and Resourceful Girls in picture books] (gopher)

==Science fiction==
* [[Betsy Byars]]; ''[[The Computer Nut]]''.
* [[C.J. Cherryh]] --http://www.cherryh.com/
* [[Emily Devenport]]; ''[[Shade]]''.
* [[Peter Dickinson]]; ''[[Eva]]''.
* [[Madeline L'Engle]] ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''; others.
* [[Nancy Etchemendy]]; ''[[The Watchers of Space]]'', ''[[Stranger from the Stars]]'', and ''[[The Crystal City]]''. http://www.sff.net/people/etchemendy/
* [[Nancy Farmer]]; ''[[The Ear, The Eye and the Arm]]''
* [[Helen Hoover]]
* [[Phyllis Gotlieb]]; ''[[Violent Stars]]''
* [[Monica Hughes]]; ''[[Invitation to the Game]]''. ''[[The Isis Trilogy]]''.
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]], ''[[Time City]]'', others.
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]; ''[[Fisherman of the Inland Sea]]'';
* [[Anne McCaffrey]] ''[[Dragonsong]]'', ''[[Dragonsinger]]''.
* [[Andre Norton]] ''[[Breed to Come]]'', many others. See: [http://www.sff.net/people/dave.t/hh1.htp About Andre (Alice Mary) Norton].
* [[Kenneth Oppel]]; ''[[Dead Water Zone]]''.
* [[Doris Piserchia]] ''[[Star Rider]]'', ''[[The Dimensioneers]]'', ''[[Spaceling]]'', others.
* [[Pamela Sargent]] ''[[The Watchstar]]'', ''[[Earthseed]]''
* [[Pamela F. Service]], ''[[Stinker from Space]]'', ''[[Stinker's Return]]''
* [[Stephanie Spinner]]; ''[[Aliens for Dinner]]''.
* [[Sydney Van Scyoc]]; ''[[Sunwaifs]]''.


==Fantasy==
* Martine Bates; The Dragon's Tapestry.
* Francesca Lia Block; the Weetzie Bat stories; collected in Dangerous Angels
* Suzy McKee Charnas; The Bronze King, The Silver Glove, The Golden Thread. Excellent!! Tina's adventures in Central Park, in school, fighting monsters and threats to the universe; full of pleasingly odd people.
* Susan Cooper; The Grey King series
* Anne Downer; The Spellkey Trilogy (Baen, 1996): The Spellkey (1987), The Glass Salamander (1989), and The Books of the Keepers (1993).
* Luli Gray; Falcon's Egg. When Falcon finds a mysterious glowing egg in Central Park, she also finds herself entangled in a web of secrets.
* Mercedes Lackey
* Tamora Pierce; The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Alanna: the First Adventure, In the Hand of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Lioness Rampant)
* Phillip Pullman; The Golden Compass. Lyra's adventures in a parallel universe. Incredibly exciting. First in a series!
* Theresa Tomlinson; The Forestwife. About Maid Marion, as she runs away to Sherwood Forest.
* Margaret Storey; The Double Wizard, A Quarrel of Witches, others. Ellen and Timothy travel to the Open Country; magical adventures. I like how Ellen makes her magic wand look like a used-up old stub of pencil...
* Anne Turner; Elfsong.
* Patricia Wrede; Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons
* Jane Yolen; Sister Light, Sister Dark, Here There Be a Witch, The Ballad of the Pirate Queens; others...

==Magic, Psychic Powers, Time Travel==
* Lloyd Alexander The Wizard in the Tree , The Arkadians; others.
* Alice Bartles; The Beast. Mythical ice creatures and a lost girl.
* Michael Bedard; A Darker Magic, Painted Devil. Emily and her niece, Alice, face down evil --- in the basement of the public library.
* Edward Eager; Half Magic, Knight's Castle. Girls and boys, great magic adventures.
* Lisa Fosburgh Bella Arabella. A girl gets turned into her cat.
* Beatrice Gormley Fifth Grade Magic
* Irene Haas; The Maggie B. Maggie's wish to be captain of a ship comes true.
* Welwyn Wilton Katz; Time Ghost. Sara, in the 21st century, at the North Pole.
* E. Nesbit Three Children and It, The House of Arden; The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
* Andre Norton Octagon Magic, Lavender-Green Magic, and many others
* Pat O'Shea; The Hounds of the Morrigan. Brother and sister; witches on motorcycles; ancient Ireland.
* Richard Peck The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
* Mary Rodgers Freaky Friday
* Zilpha Keatly Snyder The Changeling
* Jyotsna Sreenivasan, The Moon Over Crete Shallow, but nice, trip to
* John C. Walker. In Other Words. Disabled teenagers, telepathy, aliens. Shivery!
* Tim Wynne-Jones; Zoom Upstream. Zoom (a cat) and Maria travel back to ancient Egypt.
* Betty Wright The Secret Window

==Miscellaneous==
* [[Lynn Abbey]], ''[[Catwoman]]'', ''[[Daughter of the Bright Moon]]''.
* [[O.T. Nelson]], ''[[The Girl Who Owned a City]]''
* [[Meredith Ann Pierce]], ''[[The Dark Angel Trilogy]]''.
* [[Nancy Farmer]], ''[[The Warm Place]]''; Giraffe magic... chameleon magic...nasty evil demons.
* [[Mary-Joan Gerson]], ''[[How Night Came from the Sea]]''. [[Creation myth]] cycle from Brazil. [[Lemanj]]·, the sea goddess, had a daughter who married a son of the earth people and went to live in the in the land of daylight.
* [[Laurence Yep]]'s work (no titles yet, sorry).
* ''[[Bedknob and Broomstick]]''
* ''[[The Fledgeling]]''
* ''[[Miranty and the Alchemist]]''
* ''[[Ronia, the Robber's Daughter]]'' ([[Astrid Lindgren]])
* [[Francesca Lia Block]].
* [[Diane Duane]], ''[[Support Your Local Wizard]]'' (SFBC omnibus edition 1990. Includes ''[[So You Want to Be a Wizard]]'' (1983); ''[[Deep Wizardry]]'' (1985); and ''[[High Wizardry]]'' (1990) and ''[[A Wizard Abroad]]''
* [[Mary H. Herbert]], ''[[Lightning's Daughter]]'' (female protagonist)
* [[Sylvia Louise Engdahl]]
* [[L. Dean James]]
* [[Ursula Le Guin]]
* [[Robin McKinley]], ''[[The Hero and the Crown]]'' (female protagonist) and ''[[The Blue Sword]]'' (female protagonist)
* [[Zilpha Keatly Snyder]], [[Below the Root series]].
* [[Victoria Winter]], ''[[The Winter of Enchantment]]''
* [[Jane Yolen]]

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