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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Pegeen (1941)
When her Granny dies, Pegeen goes to stay with her friend Francie and the O’Sullivans until she hears from her uncle in America.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Saturdays (1941)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
The Scalawagons of Oz (1941)
Author(s):
John R. Neill
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
Susannah the Pioneer Cow (1941)
Susannah and her calves Posy and Rosy travel from Virginia to a new home in the Midwest.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Tag-Along Tooloo (1941)
Tooloo is too little to play with the big girls, but she still wants to tag-along.
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Author(s):
Frances Clarke Sayers
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah (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):
Stuart Tresilian
The Young Patriots (1941)
Patty escapes capture by pirates during the Revolutionary War and ends up on Block Island.
Author(s):
Marjorie A. Hayes
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942)
Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in these adventures.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Blue-Eyed Lady (1942)
Pip and Nanny’s mother is an angel in heaven. A Christmas story.
Author(s):
Ferenc Molnár
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Doll Who Came Alive (1942)
Jyd, a young English girl, loves her doll so much that it comes to life and together they go off to the land of the Good People.
Author(s):
Enys Tregarthen
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The First Thanksgiving (1942)
Author(s):
Lena Barksdale
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Friend (1942)
The triplets make friends with a lonely old geography teacher after they leave a big snow ball on his walk.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
The Four-Story Mistake (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Fun and Frolic (1942)
This reader for the early grades is a collection of short stories and poems.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Rachel Field
Rose Fyleman
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Emma L. Brock
Henrietta’s House (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Lorna R. Steele
The Kellyhorns (1942)
When separated-at-birth twins Penny and Pam discover each other, they determine to put their family back together.
Author(s):
Barbara Cooney
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
The Long White Month (1942)
Priscilla lives with her aunt in New York. When she gets a chance to live in a cabin in the woods with cousin Susan, she takes responsibility for the wild birds.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Theresa Kalab
The Middle Moffat (1942)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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Over the Big Hill: A Betsy-Tacy Story (1942)
Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in this series of adventures. Later editions are titled Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski