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A Woman's Place is in the Resistance

They say well-behaved women rarely make history... March is Women's History month. Women have been part of almost every historical movement for change. Here is a list of fictional stories featuring women who refuse to conform to the status quo, and who choose to rise up and rebel instead, for their communities and for justice.

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  • From Bibliocommons: "Gather around, children of Chu Dien, and be brave. For even to listen to the story of the Trung Sisters is, in these troubled times, a dangerous act. In 40 CE, in the Au Lac region of ancient Vietnam, two daughters of a…
    Book, 2022New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — Fiction Nguyen
  • From Bibliocommons: "Told in four voices, four prisoners, including undocumented seventeen-year-old Rania, rebel against the corrupt and xenophobic government of the New American Republic that exploits undocumented immigrants in deadly labor camps…
    Book, 2024New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024. — Fiction Mendoza TEEN
  • Internment: "A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
    Book, 2019New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — Fiction Ahmed TEEN
  • Don't let the title mislead you - this lyrical, dystopian book is all about the women who make up the resistance.
    Book, 2025New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. — Fiction Flores
  • Here is a description provided by the publishers: "It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper…
    Book, 2021New York : Penguin Books, 2021. — Fiction Alvarez
  • I love this book! Starr is a phenomenal character.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — Fiction Thomas TEEN
  • From Bibliocommons: "In Roman-occupied Britain, the Iceni tribe crowns an extraordinary new queen. Tall and flame-haired, Boudicca is devoted to Andraste, the Iceni's patron goddess, known for her raven familiar, her fierceness and her swirling blue…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : William Morrow & Company, [2025] — Fiction Cast
  • Katniss is the girl on fire, the Mockingjay.
    Book, 2008New York : Scholastic Press, 2008. — Fiction Collins TEEN
  • A second book from the Hunger Games universe in honor of Lucy Gray. She is a character full of surprises.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2020. — Fiction Collins TEEN
  • Elphaba defies gravity!
    DVD, 2025Universal City, CA : Universal, [2025] — DVD Wicked