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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Sea is All Around (1940)
Mab has been living with her aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she is going to live with Aunt Belinda on Nantucket Island.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Year of Jubilo (1940)
When their father dies and his business fails, the Wymans retreat to their cottage in Maine to regroup.
Author(s):
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
April’s Kittens (1941)
April’s cat Sheba has three kittens. But her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones?
Author(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941)
Betsy and Tacy gain a new friend when Tib moves to Deep Valley.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Big Six (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Colt from Moon Mountain (1941)
Joey and Cynthy befriend the littlest colt they ever saw.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Fighting Littles (1941)
Bringing up the Greatest Generation was no easy job, but Ripley Little threw himself into it wholeheartedly.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
None
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Three Kittens (1941)
When the triplets cat-sit for Aunt Helga and Uncle Jon they end up with a surprise.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Growing Up with America (1941)
A collection of short stories about growing up in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Dorothy Canfield
Eugene Field
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
A House for Elizabeth (1941)
Elizabeth has a little brother, a cat and a pretend house, but what she really wants is a real house instead of a furnished apartment.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Theresa Kalab
Indigo Treasure (1941)
Growing indigo on a southern plantation.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Frances Rogers
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Left Till Called For (1941)
When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.
Author(s):
Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
In the seventh book of her biographical series, Laura is living with Ma, Pa, Mary, Carrie and Grace in De Smet and earns her teaching certificate.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Missee Lee (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Moffats (1941)
The Moffats live on New Dollar Street with their widowed mother who is a seamstress.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Mountain Mystery (1941)
When Lum Morgan tries to steal back Broken Key farm, the girls of Glen Hazard must go into action again.
Author(s):
Maristan Chapman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton