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The Lost Girl
More than any other book I’ve read, The Lost Girl defends the middle grade girl as a person to be valued, respected, and taken seriously. The novel posits that every young woman needs a girl gang of her own, a group of friends and fellow warriors to lift each other up and prove to the world (and themselves) that girls are a force to be reckoned with. Everybody needs to read this book: adults who dismiss girls for being insubstantial or overly emotional boys who think girls are weak or silly women who need to be reminded of what they were, what they could have been, and what they can still be and above all, young girls who will see themselves in these pages and know that they are worthy, they are capable, and they are filled with magic that can do amazing things when they work together. There are times when this dark fairy tale feels like a howl of rage, directed at a society that wants to make sure its damsels stay in distress. Though I think it will age well, this book is very timely: the villain of the piece is revealed to bear an uncanny resemblance to a certain world leader. He has a vast collection of the world’s rarest and most valuable objects, but he doesn’t appreciate their true value he simply acquires them as status symbols to prove to the world that he is an important person of wealth and class. He doesn’t believe in science and he uses up finite resources without any consideration for the future or the needs of other people even certain pompous verbal mannerisms call to mind this Individual. In the most frightening parts of the book, the villain abuses girls and treats them like property. Young girls will relate to this allegory all too well, since they are growing up in a society that sends misogynistic messages through its popular culture and elected leaders. The characters are hardly damsels waiting for someone to come rescue them, though. They are sisters, superheroes, and girl gang warriors, and they save the day. They save themselves, and they show the girls reading the story that they can save themselves as well.