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  Encouraging Our Young Girls

  If you wanted to share a positive, empowering book with young women between the ages of 14-20, what would you recommend? And to narrow this a bit, you're recommending a book to a non or reluctant reader. What would you recommend and why?

  zawadi started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  lioness7 

  I think that Letters to a Young Sister by Hill Harper would be a wonderful book! I reaad Letters to a Young Brother and the advice for young brothers in that book is a wonderful for teaching, guiding, and mentoring young men, so I think that the same approach would work for young girls. Actually, after I read the book I hoped that a similar book for young girls would be published!

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  tbetty 

  I've recommended the following:
  Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
  What I Know Is Me: Black Girls Write About Their World edited by Natasha Tarpley AND My Sisters' Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out. I recommend both of these book because they are work written by young women of color.
  for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbo is enuf by ntozake shange (I have used this book with young girls, and the stories really resonate with them, even though some of the musical references go over their heads, and there is some sexual and violent content in some parts.)
  Homemade Love by J. California Cooper because girls should see how love takes on so many shapes.
  Some people have recommended a book of interviews to me called Sugar in the Raw, so depending on your tastes and your group, they might like it.

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Wendy Raven M 

  Hi Zawadi and All,

  This is late, but if I may, I'd like to recommend a book I wrote, ASLEEP. It's a fantasy novel that chronicles a young African American girl's discovery of the secret world of superbeings.

  I'm recommending ASLEEP because fantasy novels like Twilight and Harry Potter are enjoyed by a diverse audience, yet we don't see this diversity, particularly black girls, represented in the main characters. Young women who enjoy fantasy stories will feel empowered reading ASLEEP because the main character reflects them and her story of discovering her own inner strength will inspire readers to find their own inner gifts.

  Regards,
  Wendy Raven McNair
  Author of ASLEEP (at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble on request)
  http://www.wendyravenmcnair.com/

  posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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  katrin c 

  i'd say take them to the library or bookstore and just let them walk...the books will do the rest...

  
  
  
  
  

  i'm not crazy

  
  
  
  
  

  yet.

  posted 1 month ago. ( reply )

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