After Dark has beautiful fashion-model Eri and her little intelligent sister with short hair and tomboyish characteristics, Mari. This Trope is subverted, though. They have drifted way apart and "have lived two different lives" in the same house.
Tattooed badass Zoe and shy, sensitive Erin in the Ahriman Trilogy.
All-American Girl (Meg Cabot): Sisters Sam and Lucy, though Sam is more artsy than tomboyish. They have a third sister who's a child prodigy, but she's less important to the plot.
In Animorphs, down-to-Earth farm girl Cassie is the tomboy while beautiful, fashion-obsessed Rachel is the girly girl, and they are best friends. Ironically, it is the "tomboy" who acts as The Heart of the group and it is the girly girl who becomes more and more of an Action GirlBlood Knight as the series goes on.
Rose-Red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flowers and catch butterflies; but Snow-White sat at home with her mother and helped her in the household, or read aloud to her when there was no work to do.
Kristy is brash, outspoken, athletic and tomboyish, while her best friend Mary Anne is sensitive, romantic, cries easily, hates sports, loves sewing and knitting, and has a fondness for kittens. After Mary Anne's father stopped being so strict (book 4), she starts caring about her clothes, hairstyle, and appearance, unlike Kristy who couldn't care less and always wears jeans and baseball caps.
Kristy is also the tomboy to her neighbor Shannon's Girly Girl (pictured above). Kristy is a sporty girl who doesn't care about her appearance, while Shannon represents The Beautiful Elite hated by Kristy, which is the main conflict of "Kristy and the Snobs". By the end of this book, Shannon turns into a Lovable Alpha Bitch, befriends Kristy, and becomes an Associate Member of Kristy's BSC.
Polar Opposite Twins Abby and Anna. Abby is outgoing, athletic, and a big joker, her twin Anna is quiet and loves to play the violin.
The Braided Path trilogy has Kaiku and Mishani. Kaiku is the fighter out of the two with a history of competing with her brother in just about everything. Mishani is more refined, well educated and diplomatic with a love of literature and beauty. Both are necessary in the fight against the Weavers as Kaiku has the combat skills and her kana while Mishani uses her diplomacy skills in order to bring more allies to the cause.
Amelia has Boyish Short Hair, has been captain of a corsair ship and often successfully adopts a Sweet Polly Oliver disguise. Isabel has long hair, adores romantic novels, poetry and music, and works in finance.
Eua-le is a skilled fighter and secret service agent (at eighteen, no less). Yvonne is a timid, naive, pampered Daddy's Girl – though she does toughen up thanks to Eua-le's mentorship.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Lucy and Susan Pevensie. After being crowned they're even given the names Queen Lucy The Valiant and Queen Susan the Gentle — Corin tells Shasta that Lucy fights in wars just like a boy and Susan is more like a gentlewoman, despite both being great archers. Also, Aravis and her best friend Lasaraleen in The Horse and His Boy.
Dimension Heroes: Brittany and Tami, though Tami appears to be just as much a girly girl as she is a tomboy.
Dracula: Mina is focused on her career. Lucy mainly wants to find a husband.
Tomboy: Kajiya - Not only is she the only girl in her tribe to wear pants, but she also's headstrong, and completely disregards every gender-associated rule without repercussion, due to the fact she's a magik.
Girly Girl: Ainee - Her dress is long and flowing, just as any woman's should be - and while she's probably their planet's first feminist, she still abides by the rules and accepted conventions, (with an attitude, of course), choosing to become a healer.
The short story The Dragon's Claw from The Dream Eaters and Other Stories features schoolgirls Em and Charlotte. Em wears jeans and T-shirts, has messy hair, and has a male best friend. Charlotte wears short skirts and make-up, has carefully-groomed hair, and is horrified at the thought of wearing hiking gear. Neither is happy about being forced to share a room.
Emberverse by S. M. Stirling. The tomboy and the girly girl are a couple: Tiphaine d'Ath and her long-time lover Delia de Stafford. Tiphaine is a Dark Action Girl and the toughest woman in the male-dominated Protectorate, dresses in male garb (generally forbidden to Protectorate women), wears her hair as short as she can get away with, and doesn't like children. Delia is inept at combat (which she attempted exactly once, to aid Tiphaine), dresses very femininely and fashionably, wears her hair long and lush, and adores babies. They're inseparable.
Emily of New Moon: Tomboy Ilse is rowdy, tough, and very direct. Girly girl Emily is more emotional, introspective, and more concerned with her appearance.
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating: Ishu is something of a tomboy, having short hair and not liking girly things, with casual attire (but she'll also dress up on special occasions). Her interests aren't stereotypically masculine however, just more nerdy. Hani is long-haired, dresses in a girly way and she likes more feminine things. First they fake a relationship, and then fall for each other legitimately.
Ginny Weasley and Fleur Delacour. While there are many Tomboys and Girly Girls in the Harry Potter books, this is the most pronounced, especially in the sixth book when the two are forced to room together. Fleur is beautiful, has a magic that entrances men, and thinks about romance and clothes all the time. Ginny is a tomboy who grew up with six brothers, likes sports, and her signature spell is the Bat Bogey Hex.
Heidi: Tomboy Heidi liked being outdoors and playing with the goats, snuck some kittens and a turtle into the Sessemann house, and often asked impertinent questions. Girly Girl Klara had no issue with staying indoors, was always prim and proper — and somebody had to motivate her to be outdoors and try to walk again.
There's also Katniss and the prim Effie Trinket, who loves wearing makeup and fancy dresses and occasionally admonishes Katniss for unladylike behavior.
InCryptid: The sisters Verity and Antimony Price both have aspects of each. Verity is a professional dancer and likes other traditionally feminine things like dresses, but she's also a short-haired Action Girl who loves climbing trees and buildings so much that her title is "The Arboreal Priestess". Plus she's a Dance Battler. Antimony is more tomboyish and a Nerd Action Hero, but she was also a Pom-Pom Girl and has longer hair and bigger breasts than her sister (to Verity's envy).
The premise of Annie Barrows's Ivy & Bean series is an unlikely friendship formed from this.
Joe Pickett: Joe and Marybeth's biological daughters Sheridan and Lucy. Sheridan - the elder - is athletic, outdoorsy, something of a loner and an apprentice falconer. Lucy is popular, extremely social and into fashion. Sheridan even calls Lucy a "girly girl" when she is irritated with her, and despairs that she might become a cheerleader.
Journey to Chaos: Tiza Sprial and Hailey Heleti spot the contrasts as soon as they meet; Tiza wears the same outfit every day, belches as loud as she can, and speaks in a rude manner while Hailey always dresses fashionably, observes proper manners and speaks in a refined manner. After Defeat Means Respect, they find out they have more in common than they thought.
Kamikaze Girls: Momoko is a sweet lolita who hates sports, but loves shopping and cake. Ichiko/Ichigo is a tough (on the outside at least), if somewhat childish, Yanki biker girl. They are the "best friends" variety of this trope.
The Last Unicorn: Molly Grue and the Lady Amalthea (the human form of the Unicorn). Molly has unruly curly hair, wears dirty, tattered clothes, is usually snarky and isn't afraid to call out people when they make dumb decisions. In contrast, Amalthea has long, flowing bright hair, wears silk dresses, falls in love with a gallant prince, and is more passive-aggressive in her comments towards others.
Lockwood & Co. has tough, pragmatic, messy ghosthunter Lucy Carlyle and proper, feminine, beautiful, health-conscious Neat Freak Holly Munro. The two don't get on at first but later begin to warm up to each other, especially when Holly begins displaying a hidden Girly Bruiser side.
Lottie and Lisa has twin sisters Lotte and Luise. Luise is a loud and wild tomboy who doesn't care about her grades and proper behavior while Lotte is obedient, quiet and used to doing housework to help her mother.
Little Women: This is the main contrast between Jo and Amy, from the first chapter. Jo is a rebellious, headstrong Spirited Young Lady with a fiery temper who finds sentimentality utterly repellent and generally rejects female values and convention. Amy is a vain, spoiled artistic beauty, obsessed with her appearance, who aspires to be the perfect Proper Lady and marry a rich man.
Cinder is a CyborgWrench Wench who's normally seen in dirty work gloves and cargo pants, while her Alpha Bitch stepsister Pearl is a priss who is very much into boys. This also applies to Cinder and her younger stepsister Peony, who is definitely a flirt. However, unlike the original story, the two actually get along quite well. Cinder's Wicked Stepmother Adri also counts.
As far as the other members of the Rampion crew go, Cinder acts as the Tomboy to her best friend Iko's Girly Girl, a Ridiculously Human Robot who's into fashion and cute boys. She's still perfectly capable of holding her own in a fight, though.
Cinder, again, as the tomboy to Cress's dreamy Girly Girl attitude, and to Winter's spacy yet gentle nature.
Scarlet, a Fiery Redhead gunslinger, acts as the Tomboy to every other Rampion Crew girl's Girly Girl, except for Cinder.
Both Cinder and Scarlet's personalities contrast heavily with Queen Levana's ladylike manner.
In Madicken by Astrid Lindgren, Madicken is the tomboy and Lisabet is the girly-girl. Madicken likes to climb trees and house roofs and will win every fight. Lisabet might be mischievous, but still, she's the more delicate and prettier of the two. It should be noted though that Madicken, not Lisabet, is the one who cries when she hears sad songs or sad stories.
The Mill on the Floss: Tomboy central character Maggie Tulliver, girly-girl cousin Lucy Deane. The original instance of this trope? Or, perhaps, the first case in which this trope is a major plot driver in a long work in which the tomboy is the hero?
Main character Vin actually manages to be this dynamic all by herself. As a spy for the rebellion, she has two distinct personas — Vin the tomboyish Action Girl assassin, and Valette the girly-girl noblewoman — both of which reflect some degree of her actual personality. By the third book she's largely reconciled them, and the result approaches Lady of War.
Also, in the second book there's a more traditional example, with Vin as the tomboy to Allrianne's girly girl.
The same author's Warbreaker toys with this one—two of the three main POV characters are a pair of sister princesses. Vivenna, the older, is dignified, elegant, and traditional, while younger sister Siri is a wild and rebellious tomboy. As the book progresses, though, the roles are reversed as Siri gets an Arranged Marriage to a God-Emperor and gets tied up in a political intrigue storyline, while Vivenna ends up an outcast on the streets and by the end is well on her way to becoming an Action Girl.
In The Moomins, Little My is the tough and plucky tomboy, Snork Maiden is the emotional and delicate girly-girl.
Nory Ryans Song: Nory is the outdoorsy, rebellious tomboy and Celia is the reserved girly girl who is the better of the two at sewing.
Our Only May Amelia has tomboy May Amelia who dislikes dresses, and girly girl Emma who is always well dressed and very prim and proper.
In Peter Pan, Wendy's goal is to be the best mother ever. She likes cooking, cleaning, darning socks, and taking care of animals. Tinkerbell, on the other hand, likes tinkering and fixing things, and is brash, assertive, and adventurous.
Phantom's Reckoning 2 has Makoto Guererro, who's toughened up from living on the streets and fights with mainly her strength, and Kaori Koiboto, who has a sweet and friendly persona and the least physically strong member of the group, but also the Combat Medic.
Pride and Prejudice: Eldest sister Jane Bennet is sweet and elegant and the Austenverse's resident Proper Lady. Her closest companion is her younger sister Elizabeth, a Snark Knight who engages in more physical exercise than the rest of the sisters put together, thinking nothing of a three-mile walk through muddy fields and not caring a jot for the condition of her petticoat as a result.
Remnants: Violet specifically rejects modern technology and parts of the culture because she feels it is depriving girls of their girlness, she was a member of a Jane Austen-inspired clique and even dressed the part. 2Face is a hardcore survivalist perfectly willing to let someone else (except possibly Edward) die if it means her own survival, an athlete and it was hinted that she started the fire that caused her facial scars. Whether or not they get along usually depends on the situation; they don't appear to like each other much, but usually end up on the same side inside the larger group.
In Överenskommelser, Beatrice is the ladette-like and competent one, who will even compete with men in ice-skating and horse-riding, while her cousin Sofia is beautiful, demure and "perfect". note Interestingly enough, while Sensitive Guy and Manly Man is the technical spear counterpart to this trope, Beatrice's love interest Seth (a Byronic Hero) and Sofia's love interest Johan (an Ideal Hero) rather have a Noble Male, Roguish Male dynamic.
In "De skandalösa", there's a romantic couple example with Venus (a beautiful and docile Lipstick Lesbian) and Nora (a way more brassy and "mannish" Butch Lesbian).
Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: Kathryn Lucas (tomboy) and Yoko Akia (girly girl). Well, actually, just about every female character is a girly girl when compared to Kathryn.
Slayers: In the fifteenth light novel, oddly enough, the Demon Lords Greater Beast and Deep Sea form such a pair. Greater Beast has short hair and mannish clothes, while Deep Sea has long hair and a fancy dress. Contrary to prior Fanon speculation, they actually seem to get along with each other just fine.
Sisters... No Way!: The titular stepsisters are this. Cindy (tomboy) is brash, rebellious, dresses casually (except when She Cleans Up Nicely) and has no problem getting drunk in front of the family, while Aishling (girly girl) is polite, refined, a lover of classical music and literature, and nicknamed "Miss Prim" by Cindy. An interesting case is that Cindy is actually richer than Aishling, despite their personalities.
There are the two Stark sisters. Arya's the tomboyish one, eager to fight, meddle with commoners and learn ninja skills; Sansa's the girly one, dreaming about pretty dresses, pretty boys and minding her manners. They bicker a lot as a result... at first. Then it went From Bad to Worse for both of them: Arya has joined an assassin guild to ensure her survival while Sansa is the forced protegée of Petyr Baelish in being chess-mastering stratagems he knows and has to act cold, aloof and bitchy and grow into Silk Hiding Steel to ensure her own survival.
Aegon the Conqueror's sisters: Rhaenys (who loved dancing, music, and finery) and Visenya (an austere strategist, a Dark Action Girl with Braids of Action).
Aegon the Uncrowned's daughters: Aerea (rebellious, spirited, liked flying with her dragon) and Rhaella (studious, obedient, never flew a dragon and instead became a septa).
Daemon Targaryen's daughters: Baela (had Boyish Short Hair, enjoyed boyish pursuits, joined her stepmother's Black army as a soldier during the Dance of the Dragons) and Rhaena (girly, graceful, stayed well away from the Dance).
Jaina Solo and Tenal Ka. Both are daughters of Royalty. Jaina as a young woman is a Wrench Wench and pilot in her father's footsteps, while Tenel Ka is a Proud Warrior Race Princess. Jaina goes on to become a career soldier and eventually receives hardcore combat/assassination training courtesy of Boba Fett, while Lady of War Tenel Ka learns to balance her duties as Queen and as a mother with her pride and warrior nature.
Princess Leia (tomboy) and her lady-in-waiting Winter (girly girl) have this dynamic. Winter was even mistaken as the princess many times because she had the grace that Leia didn't.
Corie and Elisandra in Summers at Castle Auburn. The former has her girly moments and the latter is an accomplished rider, but in general, Corie is rough around the edges while Elisandra is the perfect lady.
Among the young teenagers, Piper is a fashionable Little Miss Con Artist, while Annie cares more about pitching baseballs and reading books than stereotypically girlish pursuits.
Among the seven-year-olds, there's Theresa Mattaman (a nosy, rough-and-tumble girl with several missing teeth) and Janet Trixle (who braids her hair and has many pixie imaginary friends). However, Janet is also a bit of a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, as best shown when she sometimes imitates her guard father, complete with carrying a bullhorn around.
A Taste of Honey: Lucretia and — to Aqib's surprise — her best friend Enghélasade. Lucretia is the Outdoorsy Gal who spends any free minute outside, at the Menagerie or out hunting with the prince, and Enghélasade is a second-order cousin who spends her time inside with 'women's business', that is mathematics and linguistics, and sports an impressive amount of expensive dresses and jewelry.
Tell Me How You Really Feel: Rachel is the tomboy, always wearing jeans and t-shirts with little care for her looks, while being devoted to her film work (a male-dominated profession, as they discuss). Sana on the other hand is the girly girl, a cheerleader who wants to be a doctor, and when not in her outfit always wears feminine clothing, while being very occupied with her looks.
Trixie Belden: Trixie (wears jeans, abrupt, likes running around with her brothers, hates fussing with hair/makeup/jewelry/sewing) and her best friend Honey (tactful, can dress for any occasion and enjoys it, likes to sew). It's especially funny when Honey helps Trixie fake being girly and fake having a crush on Honey's cousin for plot reasons.
Kel and her sisters. Kel is going to be the first (legal) lady knight; her sisters are worried that her unwomanliness will dim their prospects in the marriage market.
And in the Circle of Magic books, there's Sandry, whose girliness is epitomized by the fact that her magic is sewing-related, and Tris, who has traditional ideas about how a woman of the merchant class should act, versus Daja, who's from a very different culture where girls wear pants and fight with staffs, is a muscular blacksmith, and turns out to be gay. Lark and Rosethorn are also a bit like this: Lark is beautiful, graceful, motherly and nurturing, and has sewing magic like Sandry, while Rosethorn is brisk, acerbic, and wears her hair short. An interesting case since they're a couple.
Vampire of the Mists: Played more or less straight with Leisl and Katya except that Katya turns out to be Trina.
The Vampire Sisters is a series of German books aimed toward kids about two Half-Human Hybrid girls half human half vampire who are tough punk rocker Dakaria and her feminine old fashioned sister Silvania.
Vows and Honor by Mercedes Lackey feature Tarma and Kethry. Tarma is a hard-bitten swordswoman whose vow of celibacy to her goddess makes her completely asexual. Kethry is a former noblewoman and a Squishy Wizard. Of course, Kethry's only "girly" in comparison to Tarma; by herself, she's in better condition and more suited to rough living than most men. The trope is also subverted in that despite her asexuality, lack of looks, and ability to make Red Sonja look like a chorus girl, Tarma's the more domestic of the two — every time they get near kids she ends up babysitting them and loving it, and she's the better cook. This carries over even after Kethry gets married and settles down, in that Tarma is (among other things) their live-in nursemaid.
In Warrior Cats, Squirrelflight and Leafpool fit this; the former being a fiery Action Girl warrior while the latter is a kind and gentle medicine cat.
There's also Dovewing and Ivypool. They're both warriors, but Dovewing is more sensitive and gentle, while Ivypool is snarky and more aggressive.
Whateley Universe: Roommates Tennyo (Billie Wilson) and Generator (Jade Sinclair) at Whateley Academy. Billie is a tomboy who likes fishing, and was wearing jeans and flannel shirts at the start of the school year. Jade is the kind of girl who still wears Hello Kitty and Barbie clothes and has stuffed animals around. On the other hand, given what she can make those stuffed animals do...
The Winnie Years: Winnie and Amanda. Amanda is the girly-girl, liking such things as tanning, fashion, makeup, cheerleading, and boys, while Winnie (in earlier books) is the tomboy, who doesn't care about those things and just wants to have fun and be active.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins has this in the form of sweet, pretty, demure Laura Fairlie and her sharp-tongued, resolute and masculine-looking half-sister Marian Halcombe.
In The Worst Thing About My Sister, Marty is active and doesn't wear dresses, whereas Melissa wears pink and is focused on her opinion.
