As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.

"Annie Lumsden has hair that drifts like seaweed, eyes that shine like rock pools, and thoughts that dart and dance like minnows. She lives with her artist mother by the sea, where she feels utterly at home, and has long felt apart from the other girls at school. Words and numbers on the page don't make sense to her, and strange maladies have been springing up that the doctors can't explain. Annie's mother says that all things can be turned into tales,...

In early twentieth-century England, Clarry Penrose longs for an education and life of her own, but it is not until her beloved cousin, Rupert, is declared missing during World War I that she can take her chance.

A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.

Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.

"Cutie Grackle is used to being different--she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded uncle, and when she's not sucking pebbles to trick her stomach into feeling full, she's chatting with a weathered garden gnome for company. But having a flock of ravens follow you is more than just different. Cutie worries the birds are connected to the curse Uncle Horace tends to mutter about. And she's right. The ravens present her with a fortune from...

"Younger sister Maureen has found the perfect replacement for when her sister Wendy is off hanging with her friends or having yucky smoochie time with her boyfriend Mason... another stuffed animal, of course. But as Maureen isn't always too careful with her things, or her sister's things, will this stuffed sister plan become spoiled before it even begins? Plus: more sibling rivalry, more pranks, more bonding time with the sisters who depending on...

"Drawn to the horizon since she was small, the heroine of this story longs to discover what lies beyond it. She builds herself a boat, with the help of her parents, who know they cannot keep her on the little island they call home. With courage, joy, and the gift of the most brilliant of swords from her parents, she sets off.Beautifully illustrated, this immersive book celebrates the great joys of the voyage itself. It captures the experience of finding...

While her Native Alaskan peers feel trapped between traditional and modern cultures, sixteen-year-old Deneena Yazzie learns the old language and ways from her grandfather and trains for the Great Race with her lead dog, a blue-eyed wolf.

"A true daughter of the fearsome O'Malley clan, Grace spent her life wishing to join the fight to keep Henry VIII's armies from invading her homeland of Ireland -- only to be told again and again that the battlefield is no place for a woman. But after English conspirators brutally murder her husband, Grace can no longer stand idly by. Leading men into battle on the high seas, Grace O'Malley quickly gains a formidable reputation as the Pirate Queen...