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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975)
A Mary Poppins story about food and cooking, with recipes.
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Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1975)
Having performed Midsummer Night’s Dream three times on midsummer’s eve, Dan and Una are visited by Puck, who leads them on adventures in English history.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
H. R. Millar
Rewards and Fairies (1975)
Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past.
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Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
C. E. Brock
Song of the Trees (1975)
Cassie Logan does not want her mother to sell their timber while her father is away working on the railroad during the Great Depression.
Author(s):
Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Yak, the Python and the Frog (1975)
Some little-known facts are revealed that will be useful for those thinking of choosing an exotic pet.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Attic Term (1976)
Ginty Marlow is pretty, clever and popular. But then she breaks the rules and gets herself in trouble.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Grant
The Champion of Merrimack County (1976)
O Crispin is practicing for the annual bicycle races when he injures his tail. The Berryfield family rally round.
Author(s):
Roger Wolcott Drury
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Wegner
Emily and the Headmistress (1976)
Emily has to spend the school holidays with the headmistress.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Sheila Rose
It’s Not Fair (1976)
Did you ever want to have what your friend had and be what she was? And then find out that she wanted to be like you and have what you had?
Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
May I Visit? (1976)
A young girl wonders about visiting her mother after she is grown up.
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Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Moving Day (1976)
Author(s):
Tobi Tobias
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Princess and Curdie (1976)
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Helen Stratton
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976)
A clear-eyed look at the American south at the time of the Great Depression through the eyes of a young African American girl.
Author(s):
Mildred D. Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
That Makes Me Mad! (1976)
Common situations that make everyone mad.
Author(s):
Steven Kroll
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Quicksand Book (1977)
A practical guide for those caught in quicksand.
Author(s):
Tomie dePaola
Illustrator(s):
Tomie dePaola
Carbonel and Calidor (1978)
When Prince Calidor strays off, his father, Carbonel King of the Cats, calls on Rosemary and John to help bring him back to the straight and narrow.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Charles Front
The Dangerous Journey (1978)
When the bored Susanna puts on the magic glasses she is whirled into a magic world of dangerous adventure. Fortunately, the Moomins are there to help her.
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
Inside a Sand Castle (1978)
What is it like to go inside a sand castle? Or slide down a hay stack? Or climb a tall pine tree?
Author(s):
Mary Louise Cuneo
Illustrator(s):
Jan Brett
Jessica on Her Own (1978)
An orphaned cousin and an out-of-work uncle add to Jessica's difficulties with her school mates.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Dave Griffiths
Alison Prince
Little Red Riding Hood (1978)
Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit Grandmother, but my, what big teeth she has!
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois