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Amelia Bloomer List for 2012 Announced

//“One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity." – Amelia Earhart//

As we come to the end of a year emphasizing the intersection of feminism and social activism in the world around us, the defiance shown by the women featured in books on this list hold particular relevance. From a female Jesus to Victoria Donda, the youngest member of the Argentine Congress, these women and girls reflect the complexities of the female experience and the increased awareness of strong women and girls throughout history and around the world. Courageous choices include those made by women committed to insane asylums for excessive book reading, women using their bodies as art to express their rage, saving lives and standing up to institutional injustice, and trying on new identities under challenging circumstances.

Women claim their voices through the confluence of revolutionary politics and artistic expression. Loud and self-possessed, they would not be silenced.

Sometimes whimsical yet always substantive fictional characters and real-life heroines inspire us to consider new ideas. Even those bred to timidity refuse to accept limitations.

The Amelia Bloomer Project is part of the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association’s Social Responsibility Round Table. The Amelia Bloomer Project committee members are Maureen McCoy (co-chair), Beth Olshewsky (co-chair), Jennie Law, Lalitha Nataraj, Linda Parsons, Kelly Rottmund, Angela Semifero, April Witteveen, and Joy Worland. For the full list and more information, please visit the [|Amelia Bloomer Project blog]

**The top ten titles of the Amelia Bloomer List include:** 
 * //**Addie on the Inside** // by James Howe. 2011. 224p. Atheneum Books, $16.99 (978-1-4169-1384-9). Gr.5-8.
 * //**Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map** // by Sue Macy. Illus. by Matt Collins. 2011. Unpaged. Holiday House, $16.95 (978-0-8234-2163-3). Gr.1-4.
 * //**Beauty Queens** // by Libba Bray. 2011. 390p. Scholastic Press, $18.99. (978-0-439-89597-2). Gr. 8-up.
 * //**Deadly** // by Julie Chibbaro. 2011. 293p. Atheneum, $16.99 (978-0-689-85738-6). Gr.7-10.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. 2011. 256p. HarperCollins, $24.99 (978-0-06-173237-9). Gr.7-up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Ruth Bader Ginsburg: U.S. Supreme Court Justice** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Paul McCaffrey. 2010. 119p. Chelsea House, $35.00 (978-1-60413-6876). Gr.5-10.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Sue Stauffacher. Illus. by Sarah McMenemy. 2011. Unpaged. Knopf, $17.99 (978-0-375-84442-3). K-Gr.2.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Kathryn J. Atwood. 2011. 272p. Chicago Review Press, $19.95 (978-1-556-52961-0). Gr. 6-up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Sue Macy. 2011. National Geographic, $18.95 (978-1-4263-0761-4). Gr.5-up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**When She Woke** //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> by Hillary Jordan. 2011. 344p. Algonquin, $24.95 (978-1-561-2629-9). Gr. 10-up.