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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
Tamora Pierce
★★★★★· Published 1983· 274 pages
Alanna disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight. I devoured this whole series growing up.
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle
Meg travels across the universe to rescue her father, armed with love and stubbornness. A childhood favorite that holds up.
★ 5Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
Patricia C. Wrede
Princess Cimorene is bored of being a proper princess, so she runs off to keep house for a dragon instead. I loved this as a kid — funny, fizzy, and quietly feminist.
The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
Megan Whalen Turner
A quest fantasy narrated by a cocky young thief, and then that ending. I did not see it coming.