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Empowering young and adult females is a common feature in feminist children’s literature. Positive female representations in this literary genre have a huge effect on increasing female readers’ self-worth and self-esteem, thus increasing their achievements. However, the way feminist authors empower their fictional heroines to act upon their world varies across feminist works. Although all heroines in feminist works are empowered in one way or another, their personal characteristics and concerns differ. The objectives of this thesis are to figure out how the two authors Philip Pullman and Mildred Taylor in their children’s novels Northern Lights and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, respectively, empower their heroines and what their vision of the future female feminist role model is. The analysis of their heroines, Lyra and Cassie, shows that both have similar feminist characteristics with slight variations, yet the role of family in their lives represents a huge contradiction. The variation in the authors’ versions of future feminist role model is ascribed to the authors’ backgrounds.