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Books in the Families genre:

Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

The chaos of World War I engulfs peaceful Prince Edward Island and claims its victims. We see it all through the eyes of Anne’s youngest child. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

The Swiss Family Robinson (1921)

A family is shipwrecked on a tropical island and proceed to make a new life for themselves. Read online at Hathitrust.

Billy Barnicoat (1922)

Billy is the sole survivor of a Spanish ship that is wrecked off the coast of Cornwall. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Greville MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Children of Ancient Britain (1922)

A reconstruction of how children lived in prehistoric Britain. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Louise Lamprey
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Five Little Friends (1922)

Five school friends and their adventures in school and out. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Gentle Julia (1922)

Julia Atwater’s large family connection, and especially her niece Florence, takes an intense interest in her social life. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Worth Brehm
C. Allan Gilbert

Heidi (1922)

This is the well loved story of a little Swiss orphan who goes to live in the mountains with her grandfather, her exile in the big city and her return home. Originally published by David McKay it was added to the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics... View More

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

Nobody's Girl (1922)

Born of a Hindu mother and a French father, Perrine is on her way to France to meet her curmudgeonly grandfather when both her parents die. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hector Malot
Illustrator(s): Thelma Gooch

Emily of New Moon (1923)

The author returns to her original vein with this story of an orphan girl on Prince Edward Island. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

Heidi (1923)

The orphaned Heidi goes to live in the Swiss mountains with her grandfather. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The Story of a Bad Boy (1923)

The story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights include the snowball battle on Slater’s Hill and the celebration of the glorious 4th.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Harold M. Brett

The Three of Salu: Around the Year in Northern Italy (1923)

This volume in the Children of the World series focuses on three children in Northern Italy.

Author(s): Carol Della Chiesa
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Doctor Dolittle’s Circus (1924)

Concerned by the abuse of animals in the circus, Doctor Dolittle decides to start his own to show how good a circus could be if the animals were in charge. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Down the Big River (1924)

Tom Lockwood and his parents are going down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Stephen W. Meader

Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)

Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

Heidi (1924)

The story of an orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the high alpine pastures.

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)

Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Midlander (1924)

The conclusion of a trilogy about the industrialization of a Midwestern city. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Thelma C. Grosvenor

The Peterkin Papers (1924)

A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.

Author(s): Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s): Harold M. Brett

The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)

A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Margery Clark
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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