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Picture Books:

• Atalanta by Betty Miles in Free to Be a Family conceived by Marlo Thomas
• Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox
• Free to Be You and Me conceived by Marlo Thomas
• Girl Who Wouldn't Get Married by Ruth Belov Gross
• La Cucaracha Martina: A Caribbean Folktale by Daniel Moreton
• Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
• Paper Bag Princess by  Robert Munsch
• Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke
• Princess Smartypants Rules by Babette Cole
• Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole
• Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane Auch
• Reckless Ruby by Hiawyn Oram
• The Library by Sarah Stewart

Chapter Books:

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• Child Bride by Ching Yeung Russell
• Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
• Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Outlaw Princess of Sherwood: Tale of Rowan Hood by Nancy Springer
• Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
• Young women escaping an arranged marriage:

Independent Spirits:

• Boston Jane by Jennifer Holm
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Tamora Pierce books
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Messenger by Lois Lowry
• Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka

Non-Marrying Women:

• Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England ed. by Jack Zipes
• Nan in Little Men and Jo's Boys by Alcott
• Tatterhood and Other Tales: Stories of Magic and Adventure ed. by Ethel Johnson Phelps

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