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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Doctor Marigold (1945)
A sentimental tale as only Dickens can tell. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Robin Jacques
Heaven to Betsy (1945)
Betsy and Tacy start high school at Deep Valley High.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
The Mitchells (1945)
The five Mitchell children and their mother stay behind in Washington D.C. as father goes off to war.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)
Author(s):
Becky Reyher
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Pippi Longstocking (1945)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Richard Kennedy
The Plain Princess (1945)
Author(s):
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Helen Stone
Skippy’s Family (1945)
An homage to a dog and his family.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth P. Korn
Strawberry Girl (1945)
Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Surprise Place (1945)
Ellen Surprise and her brother Ronnie live in a fishing village in Nova Scotia.
Author(s):
Mary Graham Bonner
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)
Betsy and her friends are sophomores at Deep Valley High.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
A Date for Diane (1946)
Meet Diane, whose young life is one crisis after another! Just the beginning of Diane's fifteenth year, and she's getting braces -- on the day of her first big party!
Author(s):
Betty Cavanna
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
The Donkey Cart (1946)
Linda and her brother spend the summer on their uncle’s farm.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Farm Stories (1946)
Fifty stories about farm activities with 100 color illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and a Little Dog (1946)
The triplets rescue a dog and return it to its owner, but it keeps coming back to them.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1946)
The classic tale of Hans and Gretel and the race for the silver skates.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Little White Horse (1946)
As Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor she catches a glimpse of the little white horse.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Little White Horse (1946)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Little Women (1946)
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Magic Bed-Knob (1946)
Carey, Charles and Paul discover that their neighbor, Miss Price is a witch. To gain their silence she agrees to give them a magic bed-know that allows their bed to travel through space and time.
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Joan Kiddell-Monroe
Mistress Masham’s Repose (1946)
Author(s):
T. H. White
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Eichenberg