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Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:

The Railway Children (1905)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905)

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Lucie has lost three handkerchiefs and a pinafore, but finds Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle has carefully laundered and starched them for her. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource. Or at Gutenberg.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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Mr. Woodchuck (1906)

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Mr. Woodchuck teaches Twinkle that it is not at all nice to set leg-hold traps for people.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Prairie-Dog Town (1906)

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Twinkle and Chubbins pay a visit to a prairie-dog town.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

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Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

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Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read for free online at Internet Archive or at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Railway Children (1906)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Story of the Amulet (1906)

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The five children re-encounter the Psammead—the “It” in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children’s other discovery, the Amulet. R... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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Sugar-Loaf Mountain (1906)

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Twinkle and Chubbins explore the interior of Sugar-Loaf Mountain and meet the sugar people in their sugar city. Read online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Twinkle’s Enchantment (1906)

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Twinkle goes berry-picking in the gulch and crosses a line of enchantment. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)

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Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Enchanted Castle (1907)

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Jerry and Jimmy and Kathleen (who was never called that, but often simply Cat) are playing in the woods when they come on the castle and are soon caught in the toils of the magic. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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A Horse’s Tale (1907)

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Twain could do sentiment - and bathos - none better, as he shows here. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock

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The Princess and the Goblin (1907)

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The Princess Irene is being raised at her King Papa’s hunting lodge. When her nurse keeps her out too late one evening, they are rescued from the goblins by Curdy, a miner’s son. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Arthur Hughes
Maria L. Kirk

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Anne of Green Gables (1908)

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Anne, with an ‘e,’ is an orphan girl, mistakenly sent instead of a boy orphan, to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): M. A. Claus
W. A. J. Claus

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Anne’s Terrible Good Nature (1908)

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A collection of short stories. Only the endpapers and cover are by F. D. Bedford. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Arthur H. Buckland

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The Enchanted Castle (1908)

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Jerry and Jimmy and Kathleen (who was never called that, but often simply Cat) are playing in the woods when they come on the castle and are soon caught in the toils of the magic. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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The House of Arden (1908)

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Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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Meggie: A Day-Dream (1908)

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A collection of short sentimental essays about an orphan girl and her aunt and grandmother.

Author(s): Victoria F. C. Percy
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Princess and Curdie (1908)

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In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie and his beasts restore Irene’s King-Papa to his throne. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

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