![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/files\/2022\/03\/International-Womens-Day-Instagram-Post.png\")
Today is International Women’s Day- \u00a0a global celebration dedicated to uplifting women and honoring their achievements<\/b>. Below are 5 book recommendations if you’re looking to read some powerful female authors who write strong female characters.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
![\"ms.marvel\"](\"http:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ms.marvel-195x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal<\/strong><\/em> by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona.<\/strong> Kamala Khan is\u00a0a Muslim teen growing up in Jersey City, idolizing Captain Marvel Carol Danvers and the Avengers. Getting superpowers like Captain Marvel does not diminish her fandom but makes her have to grapple with her newfound duty to help and to her family and culture. This has been the unofficial breakout hit of Marvel\u2019s slate of comics and it deserves all the attention.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fr<\/em><\/strong>eakboy<\/em> by Kristin Elizabeth Clark.<\/strong>\u00a0Centering on three characters, one a transwoman and another a questioning boy wondering about gender fluidity, this novel in verse breaks stereotypes all over the place. It\u2019s a good reminder to many of us that remembrances such as International Women\u2019s Day and Women\u2019s HIstory Month need to include transgender women as\u00a0well as cisgender women.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today is International Women’s Day- \u00a0a global celebration dedicated to uplifting women and honoring their achievements. Below are 5 book recommendations if you’re looking to read some powerful female authors who write strong female characters. Ms. Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6197,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Lumberjanes](\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81U4rjx0Z0L.jpg\")
Lumberjanes Vol. 1<\/em> by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis. <\/strong>Diverse campers at a Girl Scout-esque summer camp who whose exclamations \u2013 Sweet Bessie Coleman! \u2013 reflect feminism and girl power? If you haven\u2019t been reading this in issues, check out the trade paperback. It\u2019s fun, powerful, and all about friendship.<\/p>\n![\"Freakboy](\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1370192806l\/18006080.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1476284759l\/32075671._SY475_.jpg\")
The Hate You Give<\/em> by Angie Thomas.<\/strong> This moving, timely book inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement follows Starr Carter as she deals with the aftermath of being the sole witness to her best friend Khalil’s shooting death by police. When it becomes clear the police have little interest in investigating the incident, protesters take to the streets and Starr\u2019s neighborhood becomes a war zone. And Starr is the only person alive who can tell everyone what really happened that night.<\/p>\n![\"Dumplin&#39;](\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61P83VfE2AL.jpg\")
Dumplin<\/strong><\/em> by Julie Murphy.<\/strong> Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson has always been at home in her own skin. Until she finds herself liking Bo, a hot former jock. Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her new relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"