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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Magic Christmas Tree (1957)
Two small girls independently adopt a small pine tree for Christmas -- then one day they meet.
Author(s):
Lee Kingman
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Melvin the Moose Child (1957)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Over and Over (1957)
Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Pippi Goes On Board (1957)
Further adventures of the strongest girl in the world and her friends Tommy and Annika.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Pippi in the South Seas (1957)
Pippi’s father, the cannibal king, comes to visit and she in turn takes Tommy and Annika on a visit to his south sea island.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Pippi in the South Seas (1957)
Pippi’s father, the cannibal king, comes to visit and she in turn takes Tommy and Annika on a visit to his south sea island.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Richard Kennedy
The Railway Children (1957)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Lynton Lamb
A Safe Lodging (1957)
Ann Mawser lives through the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots.
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Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Don Bolognese
The School in Our Village (1957)
Reminiscences of a rural English school.
Author(s):
Joan M. Goldman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Sense and Sensibility (1957)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Songberd’s Grove (1957)
A group of children resist a gang that is destroying their neighborhood.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Spring of the Year (1957)
Laura Haverard moves to St. Merlyon with her family, fails her grammar school exam and discovers acting when she plays Ariel in The Tempest.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
Tiger’s Chance (1957)
Rajah takes Jennifer on a magic midnight journey.
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Author(s):
Jan Henry
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Time for Spring (1957)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Time of Wonder (1957)
Two young girls spend the summer on an island in Maine.
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Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Wild Angel (1957)
Hubert and Jane are sent to stay with Grandfather and go to school - for cause - and they give it.
Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Charles Geer
Adventures Here and There: Heroes on Land and Sea (1958)
A collection of stories and poems about adventure for older children.
American Backgrounds (1958)
An anthology of early American stories for older children.