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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Jane Eyre (1938)
Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
A Letter to Popsey (1938)
The Tooseys need some livestock for their new farm home so they write to their Popsey to bring them when he comes.
Author(s):
Mabel Guinnip La Rue
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
The classic tale of Snow White.
Read online at archive.org.
Swallowdale (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons (1938)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Clifford Webb
Thimble Summer (1938)
Garnet lives on a farm in Wisconsin and has adventures all summer long.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Tim and Lucy Go to Sea (1938)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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Adventure May be Anywhere (1939)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
All Over Town (1939)
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Author(s):
Florence Stebbins Gleeson
Gretchen McKown
Illustrator(s):
Zhenya Gay
Anne of Ingleside (1939)
In this final volume in the series, Anne is now the mother of five children with another baby on the way.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Charles V. John
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Children of America (1939)
Sixteen stories about American children.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Lois Lenski
Leonard Weisgard
Kurt Wiese
Et al
An Ear for Uncle Emil (1939)
Uncle Emil, the best herdsman doll in Switzerland has lost his ear to Gigi the goose.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. R. Gaggin
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the New Dotted Dresses (1939)
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Madeline (1939)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Manuela’s Birthday (1939)
Manuela has a special fifth birthday.
Author(s):
Laura Bannon
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
Ocean-Born Mary (1939)
A girl born on the voyage from Ireland to America grows up in New Hampshire in the 1700’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski