Al-Khatahtbeh, Amani. Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age. 2016. 134p. Simon & Schuster, $20.00 (9781501159503). Gr. 7-up.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh reflects on her experiences coming of age as a young Muslim American woman in a post-9/11 world and founding MuslimGirl.com.
Slade, Suzanne. Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story. Illus. by Jessica Lanan. 2017. 32p. Sleeping Bear Press, $16.99 (9781585369867). Gr. 1-4.
Naturalist and artist Anna Comstock defied bias against women in the sciences to pursue and share her passion for studying the natural world.
Wheeler, Andrew. Another Castle: Grimoire. Illus. By Paulina Ganucheau. 2017. 134p. Oni Press, paperback, $15.99 (9781620103111). Gr. 7-up.
Princess Misty leads an unlikely group of revolutionaries as she rescues herself and frees the people of Beldora and Grimoire from the tyrannical Lord Badlug.
The 2017 Amelia Bloomer Project committee selected the following titles, listed in alphabetical order by title, as our Top Ten. The complete 2017 Amelia Bloomer List of 69 titles is now also available.
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley, illustrated by Jessie Hartland (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman)
Balcony on the Moon by Ibtisam Barakat (Farrar Straus Giroux/Margaret Ferguson)
Becoming Unbecoming by Una (Arsenal Pulp)
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (Candlewick)
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston (Penguin/Dutton Books for Young Readers)
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (Abrams/Amulet)
Take It As a Compliment by Maria Stoian (Jessica Kingsley/Singing Dragon)
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why by Sady Doyle (Melville House)
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino (Macmillan/Holt)
The Amelia Bloomer List is a project of the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association.
Members of the 2017 Amelia Bloomer Project committee are Katie Mitchell (co-chair), Saline District Library (MI); Lizz Zitron (co-chair), Pacific Lutheran University (WA); Katelyn Browne, University of Northern Iowa (IA); Kelly Dickinson, National Cathedral School (DC); Emily Fear, Sewickley Public Library (PA); Kelsey Keyes, Boise State University (ID); Caitie Morphew, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (PA); Melissa Nemitz, West Windsor Public Library (NJ); Leila Roy, Lyman Community Library (ME), and Dr. Susan C. Griffith (alternate), Central Michigan University (MI).
Stewart, Amy. Girl Waits With Gun. 2015. 448p. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.00 (978-0-5444-0991-0). Gr.9-up
After an altercation with powerful local factory owner Henry Kaufman, Constance Kopp and her sisters find their lives under threat. Refusing to be bullied, Constance puts her brain and courage to work, protecting her sisters from both Kaufman’s violent attacks and the larger threat to their hard won independence.
Willen, Janet and Marjorie Gann. Speak A Word for Freedom: Women Against Slavery. 2016. 216p. Tundra Books, $21.99 (978-1-7704-9651-4). Grade 7-up.
For centuries, women have played a particularly important role in abolitionist movements around the world. These fourteen activists refused to be silenced in their fights to end slavery in their time and for all time.
Gomez, Betsy, ed. CBLDF Presents: She Changed Comics: The Untold Story of the Women Who Changed Free Expression in Comics!. 2016. 176p. Image Comics, $14.99 (978-1-6321-5929-8) Grade 8-up.
Women have played a significant role in maintaining free expression and creating ground-breaking content in comics since the industry’s earliest years. These boundary-busting female writers, artists, publishers, and editors finally have their stories told in brief and informative profiles.
