Girls Rock: Fierce Females in Young Adult Fiction
March is Women's History Month and what better way to kick off Teen Central's celebration of the contributions of women than to share our Top Ten list of the most powerful, brave, and downright awesome female characters in Young Adult Fiction!
We invite you to check out our list. Does your favorite character make the cut? Who would you consider to be a stong female character in Young Adult Fiction?
The TOP TEN Fierce Female Characters We Love!
10. Lena- Delirium- Lauren Oliver
9. Ida Mae Jones- Flygirl- Sherri L. Smith
8. Saba- Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1) - Moira Young
7. Tally Youngblood- Uglies- Scott Westerfield
6. Max Ride - The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride #1)- James Patterson
5. Evie- Paranormalcy - Kiersten White
4. Eon - Eon: Dragoneye Reborn- Alison Goodman
3. Beatrice "Tris" Prior-Divergent- Veronica Roth
2. Katsa -Graceling- Kristen Cashore
1. Katniss Everdeen- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Amazon Says: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on t...
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Amazon Says: Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eightshe’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the ...
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Amazon Says: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegatio...
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Amazon Says: Action—a stunning magic system—swordplay galore! Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he’ll be able to apprentice to one of the t...
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Amazon Says: Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falli...
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Amazon Says: In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flo...
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Amazon Says: The Uglies series has more than 3 million books in print, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller lis...
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Amazon Says: Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for ...
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Amazon Says: Read Sherri L. Smith's posts on the Penguin Blog Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn’t stop him from fulfilling his dreams...
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