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Interesting to compare Harriet the Spy and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird. As a kid growing up when these books were first published, I was always attracted to interesting female characters. There was no shortage of them. One of my favourite Narnia books was The Silver Chair. The other three kids were now too old to go to Narnia, leaving Lucy to have all the adventures. There was no shortage of books about girls doing ungirllike things. Pippi Longstocking comes to mind. Maybe Anne of Green Gables and Pollyanna were more girlly, but for some reason I never read those. I like my girl characters adventurous and bad.