RIYL Girly Books (JHS)

For Girls Only!!!

Books about periods and Puberty from SLJ

14 Hollow Road by Jenn Bishop

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume

Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis

Go with the Flow by Lily Williams

The Line Tender by Kate Allen

The Moon Within by Aida Salazar

The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth by Various Authors and Kate Farrell

Revenge of the Red Club by Kim Harrington

Strong Female Protagonists

“Alice” series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“Anastasia Krupnik” series by Lois Lowry

Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers

Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier

Circle of Magic series by Isobel Bird

“The Clique” series by Lisi Harrison

“Daughters of the Moon” Series by Lynne Ewing

Does My Head Look Big in This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah

Dork Diaries by Rene Russel

Eleven by Lauren Myracle

Fame, Glory, and Other Things On My To-Do List by Janette Rallison

Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates

“Georgia Nicolson” series by Louise Rennison

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Here Today by Ann M. Martin

Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee

Love and Other Four-Letter Words by Carolyn Mackler

“Princess Diaries” series by Meg Cabot

The Secret Language of Girls by Frances O’Roark Dowell

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Stargirl and Love, Stargril by Jerry Spinelli

TTYL by Lauren Myracle

Samurai Girl series by Carrie Asai

What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter

Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf by Jennifer Holm

See Also:

• RIYL Adventurous Girls

• RIYL Alice Series

• RIYL Chick Lit

• RIYL The Clique by Lisi Harrision

• RIYL Gutsy Girlies