As Malala Yousafzai once said, 'I raise up my voice not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.'

Here are our top picks for kids to read and listen too in celebration of International Women's Day. Let these stories inspire you to make change. 

Junior non-fiction:

• Fabulously feisty queens, Valerie Wilding 
• Girls who changed the world, Michelle Roehm McCann 
• Teen trailblazers: 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20, Jennifer Calvert
• Good night stories for rebel girls: 100 immigrant women who changed the world, Elena Favilli
• Girls rebel: amazing tales of women who broke the mold, Heather E. Schwartz
• We are explorers: extraordinary women who discovered the world, Kari Herbert
• Living the confidence code: real girls, real stories, real confidence, Katty Kay
• Wonder women of science: twelve geniuses who are currently rocking science, technology and the world, Tiera Fletcher

Picture books:

• ABC what can she be: girls can be anything they want to be from A to Z, Sugar Snap Studio
• Ada Twist: scientist, Rosie Revere: engineer, Sofia Valdez: future prez - Andrea Beaty
• Look up!, Nathan Bryon
• Little people, big dreams series, Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Audiobooks:

• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

Junior fiction:

• Eight princesses and a magic mirror, Natasha Farrant 
• The amber pendant, Imogen White
• The case of the missing marquess (Enola Holmes mystery), Nancy Springer