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Celebrating International Women's Day.

We're celebrating International Women's Day the best way we know how – through books! We've put together a selection of books featuring heroines that inspire us on and off the page.

Popular YA book heroines books
How to Be a Bawse
Lilly Singh
Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta
Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1
Philip Pullman
Obernewtyn: The Obernewtyn Chronicles Volume 1
Isobelle Carmody
Valentine
Jodi McAlister
And I Darken
Kiersten White
Now I Rise
Kiersten White
Agent Nomad 1: The Eleventh Hour
Skye Melki-Wegner
The One Memory of Flora Banks
Emily Barr

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