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Girls Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:

Sense and Sensibility (1908)

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When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in realtive poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who o... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)

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This Volume II from Reilly & Lee's 'The Children's Own Books' series includes Little Black Sambo and The Story of Topsy. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Anne of Avonlea (1909)

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Anne is about to start her first term teaching at the Avonlea school, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert. READ NOW.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The Seven Ages of Childhood (1909)

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’First the Infant in its Mother’s Arms’ … to the ‘Last Scene of All’ illustrations to verses by Carolyn Wells. First appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Carolyn Wells
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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The Farm Book: Bob and Betty Visit Uncle John (1910)

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Two children spend from plow time to first snow on a farm when everything was still done by hand and horse. Read online at BPL.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Magic City (1910)

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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. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Rewards and Fairies (1910)

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Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Frank Craig

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Rewards and Fairies (1910)

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Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Frank Craig

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The Children of the New Forest (1911)

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During the English civil war, a family of children take to the woods to escape from the Parliamentary forces. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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My Sea-Side Story Book (1911)

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This is a collection of stories, most by Fenn, including The Little Skipper.

Author(s): G. Manville Fenn
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): W. Rainey
Et al

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The Story Girl (1911)

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Sara Stanley is the ‘story girl’ who entertains her family and friends with stories from the satiric to the macabre. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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Twinkle and Chubbins (1911)

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This omnibus includes all six of the Twinkle Tales: Bandit Jim Crow, Mr. Woodchuck, Prairie-Dog Town, Prince Mud-Turtle, Sugar-Loaf Mountain, and Twinkle's Enchantment. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

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

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The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1911)

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Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

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

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Dickens’s Children (1912)

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This is a thin portfolio with ten illustrations and accompanying text. The illustrations were reused in The Children of Dickens. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Junior Classics Volume 7 (1912)

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Short accounts of courageous men and women from history for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Various

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The Golden Road (1913)

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In this sequel to The Story Girl, the children produce their own magazine and begin to grow up. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The New Wizard of Oz (1913)

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This was a cheaper reprint edition. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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Our Children (1913)

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Brief sketches of boys and girls in town and country from France. This English translations is of the first half of Nos Enfants. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Anatole France
Illustrator(s): Maurice Boutet de Monvel

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Pollyanna (1913)

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An orphan girl, Pollyanna, moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Despite a difficult start, Pollyanna's exuberance and positivity affect everyone who meets her, and she spreads joy and love wherever she goes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter
Illustrator(s): Stockton Mulford

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The Terrible Twins (1913)

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A pair of twins, brother and sister, terrorize the community of Little Deeping, to say nothing of the cats. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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