love2read Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Who stayed in your memory from your pre and teen years. I'll get the list started- Francie of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Anne of Green Gables Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 From my teen years, Scarlett O'Hara. She was 16 when her story began. If I were a teen today... Flavia de Luce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onceuponatime Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 The girl from Island of the Blue Dolphins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtoamiracle Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 a little known character called Thorpe, from the book Thorpe by Mary Dutton. Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deniseibase Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Meg O'Keefe in A Wrinkle in Time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Lucy Pevensie! How could I have forgotten Lucy?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Pre-teen: Harriet from Harriet the Spy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) Harry from The Blue Sword Judy Abbott from Daddy Long Legs Edited June 15, 2012 by Twigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest robertpiazza Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) Lyra Belacqua from The Golden Compass....:) Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is a masterwork of storytelling and suspense, critically acclaimed and hailed as a modern fantasy classic.!!!! Edited June 15, 2012 by robertpiazza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca VA Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Elnora Comstock of A Girl of the Limberlost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Harriet from Harriet the Spy Meg from A Wrinkle in Time Pippi from Pippi Longstocking When I was a teen, I read a lot of junk so none of the characters really stayed with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly1730 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 All the girls from "Little Women". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
history_junkie Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Kathy from Mrs. Mike Anne from Anne of Green Gables Mabel from Grandma's Attic Constance Hopkins from Constance Laura from Little House Emily Starrr from Emily of New Moon Elinor from Persuasion I could keep going, but now I need to go read a book :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Vicky from Meet the Austins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rieshy Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 My teen girls seconded Harry from the Blue Sword, Anne from Green Gabels, and Elinore Comstock. They added: Kit from The Witch of Blackbird Pond Jane Eyre Amy Dorrit from Little Dorrit Elizabeth Bennett Linda from Beastly Max from Maximum Ride Jean Valjean- even though he's a man. Rebecca from Ivanhoe River Tam, okay she's from the movie Serenity, but my girl's listed her:tongue_smilie: Molly from Wives and Daughters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Julie of the wolves Alanna from the Tamora Pierce series and I second River Tam from Serenity :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Jo March from Little Women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missouri Okie Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Marian in The Woman in White. The book may not be quite appropriate for the younger set, but Mina in Dracula is a mighty fine character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Betsy from Understood Betsy. Rebecca from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Many of these are wonderful choices but my very favorite is: Emily, from Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace (author of Betsy-Tacy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Laurie Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 I LOVE A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, it's one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it over and over since I was about 12. But reading it now as an adult, I can see that there's some very adult content in this book and I thought it was an adult book. It's classified as young adult? Just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bearcat Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Many of my choices have been listed already but I will add Dicey from Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming and Dicey's Song. Loved those books and that character! The Chalet School books are/were great and filled with many girl characters but difficult to get copies of those in the States. As a teenager I loved Jane Eyre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooketopia Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 I've always been fond of Valancy from "The Blue Castle" by L.M. Montgomery. The story deals with more grown-up ideas than the Anne books, but I came from a stifling family situation (sort of like Valancy's) and I loved how she got over her fear of what people thought and just went out and did the things that she thought would bring her happiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Laurie Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 I've always been fond of Valancy from "The Blue Castle" by L.M. Montgomery. I love that book. Valancy's a great character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in WI Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Anne of Green Gables Jane Eyre Laura Ingalls Wilder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 I loved Dicey in Homecoming/Dicey's Song, Elnora in Girl of the Limberlost, and Anne of Green Gables. I also really, really remember Jean Fritz in her autobiography Homesick: My Own Story. I know it's not fiction, but it's a very engaging story and she is a character who stuck with me. My sister was a big fan of the Shoes books by Noel Streatfeild. I think Ballet Shoes was her favorite. I've never heard of the Chalet School books, but I found them on Book Depository. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Jane Eyre is probably my all-time favorite character from any novel. I'm also a big fan of Anne (of Green Gables). In terms of more contemporary stuff, I have to mention Hermione (from the Harry Potter series). I always feel a close kinship with the smart girl with unruly hair. Although they aren't all marketed to "young adults," I started reading Charles de Lint's novels when I was young, and I adore Jilly Cooper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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