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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Little Silver House (1959)
Author(s):
Jennie D. Lindquist
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Lucia Wilmot (1959)
Lucia is sixteen and suffers from tuberculous peritonitis. She has just received an offer of marriage from a veteran of the Spanish civil war and is thoroughly mixed up.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
None
Madeline and the Gypsies (1959)
Pepito persuades Madeline to run away with a gypsy circus.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
A Matter of Pride (1959)
When the new teacher scolds Janie for not wearing shoes to school, she is too proud to admit her father is too poor to buy her new shoes.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
The Nine Questions (1959)
Author(s):
Edward Fenton
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Perilous Pilgrimage (1959)
Like most of their companions who survived the journey, Geoffrey de Villacours and his sister Alys are sold into slavery in Egypt.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The River at Green Knowe (1959)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Trick or Treat (1959)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Works of Anne Frank (1959)
This edition includes Anne Frank’s stories and essays as well as her diary.
Author(s):
Anne Frank
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Bedtime for Frances (1960)
It is bedtime for Frances. Will she ever go to sleep?
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Author(s):
Russell Hoban
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Best in Children’s Books Volume 32 (1960)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Author(s):
Thornton W. Burgess
Carlo Collodi
Maud Hart Lovelace
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 35 (1960)
Castaways in Lilliput (1960)
When Peggy, Jim and Ralph wash up on the shore of a desert island, the last thing they expect to find are inhabitants no larger than a man’s hand.
Author(s):
Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s):
William M. Hutchinson
The Complete Peterkin Papers (1960)
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Various
The Elephant War (1960)
When Phineas T. Barnum buys Jumbo the elephant from the London Zoo for his circus, Victorian England is up in arms.
Author(s):
Gillian Avery
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Big Red Hen (1960)
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Flowering Spring (1960)
Laura is determined to act, but her father thinks teaching would be more practical.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
Shirley Hughes
Friendly Gables (1960)
The Mitchells now have a home of their own, and newborn twin boys.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Kidnappers at Coombe (1960)
Jane and Tim Cooper and their friends the Maitlands are off on a holiday adventure in Devonshire.
Author(s):
Joan Ballantyne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone