Coming of Age Stories for Girls

Catherine, Called Birdie (Cushman)

Midwife's Apprentice (Cushman)

Little Women (Alcott)

Out of the Dust & After the Dancing Days (probably more for 12+)

Summer of My German Soldier

Jacob Have I Loved

Girl of the Limberlost

Dicey's Song

Jackaroo

The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet

the last few books in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series

Anne of the Green Gables series

The Ramsay Scallop

the rosewood series(?)

Diary of Anne Frank

Homecoming, by Cynthia Voigt (and the rest of the series)

Up A Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith (for older readers, some s*xual situations)

A Year Down Yonder, by Robert Peck (MY Favorite!)

Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson

Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer

Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech

I Capture the Castle (smith)



Movie:

Spirited Away (Ghibli/Miyazaki)