Reddit mentions of The Ropemaker (Ropemaker Series)

Here is a list of YA books/series with strong female protagonists that I enjoyed while growing up:

• Clive Barker's Abarat series
  
• Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small, and Circle of Magic series.
  
• Garth Nix's Abhorsen series
  
• Robin McKinley's "The Blue Sword" and "The Hero and the Crown"
  
• Sherwood Smith's "Crown Duel"
  
• Patricia A. Mckillip's "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld"
  
• Charles De Lint's "The Riddle of the Wren"
  
• Eloise McGraw's "The Moorchild"
  
• Victoria Hanley's "The Healer's Keep"
  
• Patricia Malone's "The Legend of Lady Ilena"
  
• Peter Dickinson's "The Ropemaker"
  
• Elizabeth Marie Pope's "The Perilous Guard"
  
• Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series
  
• Vivian Vande Velde's "Heir Apparent"
  
• Susan Fletcher's "Shadow Spinner"
  
• Meredith Ann Pierce's "The Women who Loved Reindeer"
  

Good review. It's been a good while since I read HDM, but a friend of mine read them recently and expressed some of the same feelings about Lyra.

I think that Ropemaker trumps them both. It covers many of the same themes, but more succinctly and personally. But I might just have a soft spot for Peter Dickinson, cause I loved Flight of Dragons as a kid.