Top 10 Young Adult Heroines in the Last Decade

[tps_title]10. Katsa, Graceling by Kristin Cashore

(2008)

If the first sentence of the description doesn’t already set you for an immediate read (“Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight”), then I just don’t know what to tell you.

Okay, that’s a lie. Here’s what I’ll tell you: Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight. She’s also got two different colored eyes, she’s the King’s niece, she falls in love with a prince named Po (it’s glorious), and she manages to steal your breath away in the midst of all this and then some.

Katsa is an independent woman who doesn’t need any man, and she’ll sure as hell tell you all about it.

Poor Po.

You can read the second and third book in the series by Kristin Cashore titled, Fire and Bitterblue.