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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Mystery of the Stolen Blue Paint (1982)
Belinda’s can of blue paint is missing and she is sure somebody took it.
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Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Peter Spier’s Rain (1982)
Playing in the rain.
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Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Prehistoric Pinkerton (1982)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Run Away Home (1982)
The Marlows help a young boy return to his father, but it requires a dangerous sea voyage.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Roger Phillips
Runes of the Lyre (1982)
The lyre is the key to power in an interplanetary conflict.
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Author(s):
Ardath Mayhar
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Snow Queen (1982)
When the Snow Queen steals Kai away, Gerda goes in search of him.
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Amy Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1982)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Beatrice Crane: Her Book: The 2nd June 1st 1879 (1983)
A collection of pictures for the artist’s daughter.
Author(s):
Walter Crane
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Complete Borrowers (1983)
A British paperback edition including all five Borrowers books and the short story ‘Poor Stainless.’
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Diana Stanley
Four Dolls (1983)
Author(s):
Rumer Godden
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Iron Lion (1983)
The suitor who would win the princess must bring the iron lion, alive or dead.
Author(s):
Peter Dickinson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Miranty and the Alchemist (1983)
An Elizabethan girl’s uncle, an alchemist, sends her to fantastic realms.
Author(s):
Vera Chapman
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Mouldy (1983)
Author(s):
William Mayne
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Peter Spier’s Christmas! (1983)
A wordless evocation of Christmas.
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Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
So You Want to Be a Wizard (1983)
The first book in a series about two aspiring young wizards.
Author(s):
Diane Duane
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
That’s My Baby! (1983)
A fold-out ‘Daisychain’ of babies with humorous verses.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
A, My Name is Alice (1984)
An alphabet jump rope jingle with animals from Alice ape to …
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Author(s):
Jane E. Bayer
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Fragile Flag (1984)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Lure of the Dark (1984)
A high school girl’s life is disrupted by the Norse god Loki.
Author(s):
Sarah Sargent
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Peter Spier’s Little Cats (1984)
Five little kittens. When they are not eating … they sleep. All day.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier