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Girls Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:

Bluebonnets For Lucinda (1934)

Lucinda live on an island of the coast of Texas and comes to the mainland when the bluebonnets are in bloom.

Author(s): Frances Clarke Sayers
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

The Broken Song (1934)

The story of a family in the last days of Imperial Russia.

Author(s): Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Coot Club (1934)

When the Hullabaloos moor right on top of the coots’ nest, what choice had Tom Dudgeon but to cast their motor boat adrift? Dot and Dick help the outlaw elude his pursuers. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome

A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic (1934)

The story of a school outing on the frozen Dutch canals.

Author(s): Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1935
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Farm Boy: A Hunt for Indian Treasure (1934)

Harlan visits his cousins on their farm and helps them hunt for Indian treasure.

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (1934)

A twelve-year old girl finds a new way of growing up in the changing society of China in the 1920’s. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Island Magic (1934)

The author’s first book is set in the Channel Islands and concerns the du Frocq family’s struggles to live on a small farm. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Lost Merry-Go-Round (1934)

Two children explore a wood and discover a merry-go-round. The animals take them on exciting journeys.

Author(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Mary Poppins (1934)

When the Banks family’s new nanny blows in on the east wind the children are in for a series of magical adventures. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

Miki and Mary: Their Search for Treasures (1934)

Miki and Mary take a world tour on an ocean liner and bring back souvenirs of their travels. Read online at archive.org. ... View More
Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1934)

The story of the piper who was not paid and took his revenge on the children of the town.

Author(s): Robert Browning
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Ruth Visits Margot, A Little French Girl (1934)

Just after the end of World War I, an American girl visits France.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Roy A. Keech
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Surprise for Mother (1934)

Three sisters make a cake for mother’s birthday.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Winter Holiday (1934)

Dick and Dorothea are spending the winter holidays by the lake where they meet the Swallows and Amazons. Thanks to Nancy’s mumps their vacation is extended as the lake freezes over.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter
Arthur Ransome

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934

Aboard the Bulger (1935)

Five children running away from an orphanage steal (or are stolen by?) a small ship and explore the Hebrides.

Author(s): Ann Scott Moncrieff
Illustrator(s): C. L. Davidson

Ann Frances (1935)

A story about the everyday doings of a five year old girl.

Author(s): Eliza Orne White
Illustrator(s): Grace Paull
Helen Sewell

Caddie Woodlawn (1935)

Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1936

Coot Club (1935)

When the Hullabaloos moor right on top of the coots’ nest, what choice does Tom Dudgeon of the Bird Protection Society have but to set their motorboat adrift? Dot and Dick help the outlaw elude his pursuers.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter
Arthur Ransome

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

The Enchanted Castle (1935)

Bebe and Jean go on a believing journey to Colleen Moore’s Doll House.

Author(s): Colleen Moore
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

The Good Master (1935)

The adventures of Jancsi and his cousin Kate on his father’s ranch in Hungary.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

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