The Best Girls & Women Kids' Books 2024

1. Nancy Drew Nancy Drew 02: The Hidden Staircase, Book 2, (Hardcover)

Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase hits the big screen in March of 2019! Read the classic book that inspired the movie! After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen's Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie shadows on the walls. Could the house be haunted? Just as soon as she hangs up the phone, a strange man visits Nancy's house to warn her and her father that they are in danger because of a case he is working on buying property for a railroad company. This warning leads Nancy and her father Carson to search for the missing Willie Wharton, a landowner, who can prove he signed away his land to the railroad and save the railroad from a lawsuit. Will Nancy be able to find the missing landowner and discover how these mysteries are related?

Nancy Drew Nancy Drew 02: The Hidden Staircase, Book 2, (Hardcover) Author: Grosset & Dunlap ISBN: 9780448095028 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 1930-05-01 Page Count: 192

2. Nancy Drew Nancy Drew 01: The Secret of the Old Clock, Book 1, (Hardcover)

Read the original Nancy Drew mystery! The Secret of the Old Clock is the mystery that began it all for America's favorite teenaged slueth. The accidental rescue of a little girl who lives with her two great-aunts leads to an adventurous search for a missing will.

Nancy Drew Nancy Drew 01: The Secret of the Old Clock, Book 1, (Hardcover) Author: Grosset & Dunlap ISBN: 9780448095011 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 1930-05-01 Page Count: 192

3. Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea, Book 02, (Paperback)

Eleven-year-old Anne recounts her mishaps before she wins the heart of her foster mother.

Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea, Book 02, (Paperback) Author: Laurel Leaf Library ISBN: 9780553213140 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1984-06-01 Page Count: 304

4. Anastasia Krupnik

Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.

5. Anastasia Has the Answers

Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up, as her thirteenth year involves conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowed uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

6. Reading Rainbow Books Jamaica's Find, (Paperback)

In this richly illustrated picture book, when first grader Jamaica finds a stuffed animal in the park, she comes up against a moral dilemma and the concepts of right and wrong. Jamaica really likes the toy dog and wants to keep it! But with the help of her family, Jamaica decides that it could belong to a kid, just like her. What will Jamaica decide to do? With simple yet vivid text and gentle illustrations, this hopeful and relatable story of lost-and-found will add to every child's toolbox of understanding how to be an empathetic person in our big and beautiful diverse world.

Reading Rainbow Books Jamaica's Find, (Paperback) Author: Clarion Books ISBN: 9780395453575 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1987-09-21 Page Count: 32

7. An Anastasia Krupnik story: Anastasia at This Address (Hardcover)

Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her.

Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her.

8. An Anastasia Krupnik story: Anastasia, Absolutely (Hardcover)

Irrepressible Anastasia is in junior high now and participating in the "Values" curriculum through which students learn to make moral decisions. Early one morning she hits the Cambridge streets with her pooper-scooper to walk her new dog. In her half-awake groggy state Anastasia mixes up the two plastic bags she's carrying: one containing letters to be deposited in the mailbox for her mother and the other with her responsible morning gatherings. She's too embarrassed to call the post office to confess and she begins to feel more and more guilty and scared as she notices some intense local police activity in the vicinity of the mailbox. What will Anastasia do?

Irrepressible Anastasia is in junior high now and participating in the "Values" curriculum through which students learn to make moral decisions. Early one morning she hits the Cambridge streets with her pooper-scooper to walk her new dog. In her half-awake groggy state Anastasia mixes up the two plastic bags she's carrying: one containing letters to be deposited in the mailbox for her mother and the other with her responsible morning gatherings. She's too embarrassed to call the post office to confess and she begins to feel more and more guilty and scared as she notices some intense local police activity in the vicinity of the mailbox. What will Anastasia do?

9. Little Red Riding Hood (Paperback)

A feisty, bike-riding heroine, her tractor-driving grandmother, and a wolf with a hankering for Grandma's award-winning wheat berry muffins -- this is not your grandmother's Little Red Riding Hood!

A feisty, bike-riding heroine, her tractor-driving grandmother, and a wolf with a hankering for Grandma's award-winning wheat berry muffins -- this is not your grandmother's Little Red Riding Hood!

10. Nancy Drew Nancy Drew 51: Mystery of the Glowing Eye, Book 51, (Hardcover)

When Nancy Drew eagerly agrees to help her lawyer father solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she has no way of knowing that it will involve the kidnapping of her close friend Ned Nickerson. A puzzling note in Ned's handwriting set Nancy and her friends Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal. From their base of operations, the Emerson College campus, the three girl detectives and Ned's college pals follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper's hideout and rescue Ned. Not only is Nancy greatly worried about Ned, but also she is alarmed by the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the case away from her. Readers will follow Nancy's exciting adventures as she unravels this dangerous web of mystery.

Nancy Drew Nancy Drew 51: Mystery of the Glowing Eye, Book 51, (Hardcover) Author: Grosset & Dunlap ISBN: 9780448095516 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 1974-01-01 Page Count: 192