(I realize this list is overwhelmingly white.)

• Lyra Silvertongue (HDM)
• Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
• Meg Murray (The Time Quartet)
• Miranda (When You Reach Me)
• Claudia Kincaid (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler)
• Francie Nolan (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
• Turtle Wexler (The Westing Game)
• Sara Crewe (A Little Princess)
• Laura Ingalls (Little House)
• Lucy and Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)
• Mary Lennox (The Secret Garden)
• Matilda Wormwood (Matilda)
• Casey Young (Child of the Owl)
• Jade Blossom (Seesaw Girl)