Books like Nzingha, warrior queen of Matamba by Patricia McKissack

A nine‑year‑old girl named Ada escapes her abusive home amid World War II, joining her brother in London’s evacuation; she learns to ride a pony, reads, and finds a new family with Susan Smith while watching for German spies.

Through a diary begun in 1627, Jahanara, eldest daughter of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, records the politics, weddings, battles, and everyday life of the Mughal court in India.

A fictional diary of the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn, a princess from Hawaii who seeks to improve her royal station in the early 1900s.

Miri returns to her childhood kingdom and learns the power of friendship and self-confidence in an epic fantasy adventure of self-discovery and the quest for a new charter.

A fictional diary of Isabella I of Castile, chronicling her struggle to choose a husband and side in a dynastic conflict during 15th‑century Spain. The book presents her inner world against the backdrop of royal rivalry.

Follow Aminata Diallo, a child sold into slavery in South Carolina, as she escapes to Canada after the Revolutionary War and seeks a new life of freedom.

When an attack threatens her kingdom, fifteen‑year‑old Princess Branwen encounters a mystic woman who foretells that she will lead her people to victory over the Saxons.

Princess Kazunomiya, half‑sister of the emperor, narrates the intrigues of the Imperial Palace in 1858 through diary entries and poems.

Through a series of messages hidden in her grandmother’s ancestral jar, 7th‑century Korean Princess Sŏndŏk of Silla laments her forbidden access to astronomy, her yearning to learn hidden in letters that survive to the present.

A young Princess Elizabeth, aged eleven, records her life in diary entries, noting holidays, birthdays, her mother’s execution, lessons at court, and worries about her father’s health.

A fictional diary that follows Princess Elisabeth of Austria over her 1853‑1854 engagement and marriage to her cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I, offering a child‑friendly glimpse into her life as an empress.

A fourteen‑year‑old Prussian princess, Sophia, is groomed for a politically charged marriage to a German duke in Russia, where she must navigate family betrayal, espionage, and a loss of identity while becoming Catherine.

Follow young Kristina as she becomes the Girl King of 17th‑century Sweden, discovering her unique path to royalty while studying military tactics and defying gender expectations.

Mary, a young Scottish queen, receives a diary from her mother and recounts life at the French court while awaiting her marriage to Prince Francis of France.

A 15‑year‑old Hsien princess in 531 A.D. documents her life as a mediator between her tribe and Chinese settlers, navigating periods of peace and conflict in southern China.

A diary‑style journey of Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess of Russia, charting her life from a 1914 holiday through the upheavals of war to her arrival in Saint Petersburg in 1918.

A personal diary of the young Queen Victoria, from age eight to her wedding anniversary in 1843.

In this panoramic work of history, Fraser looks at women who led armies, empires and rebellions: Cleopatra, Tamara of Georgia, Isabella of Spain, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Jinga Mbandi of Angola, the Rani of Jhansi, and the 20th-century "iron ladies" Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi, among others. Her touchstone is Boadicea, the first-century Briton who led 120,000 compatriots in a revolt that temporarily shook the Roman hold on her country. With her as a vibrant centerpiece, Fraser brings forward a constellation of 17 women who, through accidents of fate or descent, or sheer genius for power, have been cast in the role of Warrior Queen--seen by her contemporaries as (often simultaneously) monster, angel, honorary male, one who shames men into bravery--and seen, long after her reign, as the focus of a golden age.--From publisher description.

Anacaona, Golden Flower recounts the 1490 life of a Taino princess who as queen‑in‑waiting, wife of the chief of Maguana, defends Xaragua from the first gold‑hungry Europeans.

Grace, a maid of honor, uncovers a sinister poisoning plot when a fellow servant’s strange behavior points to foul play in the court of the queen.

In southeastern Africa a young Yao girl and her mother help their village evade approaching slave traders.

In victor fort from the nineteenth century, Queen Lakshmi of Jhansi defies the British Empire, raising both male and female armies and charging into battle to protect her homeland and people.