Heroes and Heroines


  • After the Dancing Days-Rostkowski
  • All-American Girl, Meg Cabot's latest, the protagonist saves the life
  • almost anything by Lloyd Alexander, including the delightful new ROPE TRICK
  • Because of Winn-Dixie-DiCamillo
  • Bud, Not Buddy-Curtis
  • By the Great Horn Spoon!-Fleischman
  • Collection of retold folktales:  NOT ONE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.
  • Ender's Game Scott Orson Card
  • Flags of Our Fathers-Bradley
  • Forbidden Forest by Michael Cadnum
  • Freak the Mighty-Philbrick
  • Freedom's Children
  • Girl in a Cage--Robert the Bruce's daughter, captured by the wicked King
  • Goose Chase by Patrice Kindl.
  • Greek Myths-D'Aulaires
  • Hearts of Gold: a celebration of Special Olympics and its heroes-Dinn
  • HEIR APPARENT, by Vivian Vande Velde
  • Home Run Heroes-Stewart
  • Hoot-Hiasson
  • HOPE WAS HERE, by Joan Bauer (a non-fantasy kind of heroine)
  • Horse Heroes-Petty
  • I RODE A HORSE OF MILK-WHITE JADE, by Diane Lee Wilson
  • Kate Shelley-San Souci
  • Kid Heroes of the Environment
  • Kids Who Make a Difference-Chandler
  • King Arthur tales
  • Norma Howe's Blue Avenger series?  : )
  • Pink and Say-Polacco
  • Queen's Own Fool
  • Rodzina-Cushman
  • SHADOW SPINNER, by Susan Fletcher
  • Shelter Dogs: amazing stories of adopted strays-Kehret
  • THE FOLK KEEPER, by Franny Billingsley
  • The Hero's Trail-Barron
  • The Hunting of the Last Dragon (there's a hero AND a heroine in that one!)
  • The Legend of Lady Ilena by Patricia Malone (Girl power!)
  • The Wainscott Weasel-Seidler
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham-Curtis
  • Tunes for Bears to Dance To* by Robert Cormier
  • We Were There Too!
  • When Heroes Die-Durant
  • Wilma Unlimited-Krull
  • Witness-Hesse
  • Young Heroes series-Yolen
  • Young Merlin series-Barron


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