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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
A Lesson for Janie (1958)
Janie resents the new girl on the island and it takes a near tragedy to make them friends.
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Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Little Sioux Girl (1958)
Life on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Madeline and the Gypsies (1958)
Pepito and Madeline join a gypsy circus.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Magic City (1958)
Philip builds a model city using his blocks and things about the house. When he and his sister Lucy shrink to the size of the inhabitants, they must fight for the throne.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Magic in My Shoes (1958)
When Sally meets Josset Ormond at her aunt's home, she cannot determine whether he is a single boy or a set of triplets.
Author(s):
Constance Winifred Savery
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Myrtle Albertina’s Song (1958)
Myrtle Albertina is only nine, but she makes up a plan to help her Uncle Harvey overcome malicious gossip.
Author(s):
Lillian Pohlmann
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Paleface Redskins (1958)
When a Boy Scout camp opens on their Happy Hunting Grounds the Potawatomi Indians vow to drive the palefaces back where they came from.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
The Peppernuts (1958)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
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Rock Hounds (1958)
When Eddie’s cousin Priscilla joins him at science camp he is certain she will ruin it for him.
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Arnold Spilka
Seraphina (1958)
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Sheila Rose
The Seven Days (1958)
Seven siblings, each born on a different day of the week:
"Monday’s child is fair of face …"
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Susan Einzig
Stories of Early America (1958)
Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.
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The Story of Holly and Ivy (1958)
An orphan girl goes to see her ‘grandmother in Appleton’ on Christmas eve, while a doll in a toy shop waits for a child to claim her.
Author(s):
Rumer Godden
Illustrator(s):
Adrienne Adams
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1958)
The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne
The Sword of Ganelon (1958)
In ninth century England, Binna studies to become a healer and must contend with the evil legacy of the the sword of Ganelon, the betrayer of Roland.
Author(s):
Richard Parker
Illustrator(s):
William Ferguson
Tim and Lucy Go to Sea (1958)
Time and Lucy are invited to cruise on a yacht and are captured by mutineers.
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Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Time Garden (1958)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)
While waiting out quarantine for measles, Tom stays with his aunt and uncle in an old house and discovers he can enter the past through the garden at night.
Author(s):
Philippa Pearce
Illustrator(s):
Susan Einzig
Treasure of Green Knowe (1958)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Upside-Down Town (1958)
As you might guess, everything is upside-down in this strange town, but the inhabitants seem to enjoy it.
Author(s):
F. Emerson Andrews
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin