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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Other People’s Houses (1939)
A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Ramona (1939)
Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.
Author(s):
Helen Hunt Jackson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Secret Water (1939)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Ship that Flew (1939)
Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.
Author(s):
Hilda Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Nora Lavrin
The Singing Tree (1939)
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Sister of the Angels (1939)
A story about Henrietta, Hugh Anthony, Torminster Cathedral and Christmas.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Betsy - Tacy (1940)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Big Six (1940)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Blueberry Corners (1940)
An historical novel about two young girls growing up in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Girl Next Door (1940)
The triplets lend the girl next door some play-clothes so Nurse will not scold her for getting her dress soiled.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Happy Ever After (1940)
A Mary Poppins story which was later included in Mary Poppins Opens the Door.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
How Dear to My Heart (1940)
A biography of growing up in Missouri, by the popular journalist and radio host.
Author(s):
Mary Margaret McBride
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Jimmy and Jemima (1940)
When Jimmy joins the boy scouts, he no longer has time for his little sister Jemima until …
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Kersti and Saint Nicholas (1940)
The adventures of the smallest of seven sisters ends on St. Nicholas Eve with a ride on his white horse.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Long Winter (1940)
The Indians warn that there will be a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town for the winter.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Mother Makes Christmas (1940)
Sally and her mother make a Vermont Christmas out of nothing at all.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
Presents for Lupe (1940)
The story of a red squirrel from South America and her North American friends.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop