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Girls Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:

Wet Magic (1913)

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When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Intervening Lady (1914)

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We follow the Lady Noggs as she grows up as head of the Grandison family. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

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Pollyooly (1914)

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Pollyooly, the angel child with the red hair, with a three year old brother to support, takes the post of housekeeper to the Hon. John Ruffin, and is soon on the road to independence. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Anne of the Island (1915)

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Anne Shirley attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA and finally makes up her mind about Gilbert. READ NOW.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): H. Weston Taylor

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Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1915)

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Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): George Wharton Edwards

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Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl (1915)

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The further adventures of Pollyooly, the angel child with the red hair. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

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Little Women or Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy (1915)

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The story of four girls growing up during the Civil War. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Manual of the Woodcraft Indians The Fourteenth Birch Bark Roll (1915)

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This is a handbook for starting and running an Indian tribe. This was one of the precursors of the Scouting movement, and includes ‘merit badges.’ First published in 1902, this is the fourteenth edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Smuggler's Island (1915)

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Marian Hadley is cast away on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez along with her four younger siblings, one only a baby, and successfully keeps them alive for seven years until they are finally rescued. This is the first edition which does not have ... View More

Author(s): Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s): Wallace Goldsmith

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Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines (1917)

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A story about children living in the Philippines for American children. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Stuart Thomson
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Hans Brinker: or The Silver Skates (1918)

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Hans and Gretel hope to win the prize in the skating races so they can help their mother with the household expenses and find a doctor to cure their father. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Cinderella (1919)

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The familiar story of the despised stepdaughter the fairy godmother, the prince and the glass slipper. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): C. S. Evans
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Rainbow Valley (1919)

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In this book, the attention turns to Anne and Gilbert’s children and their neighbors. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

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Saint Joan of Arc (1919)

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This biography of the saint was originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 1904. It comprises the introductory essay and the final chapter of the author’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Wilfred J. Jones
Howard Pyle

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Dot and Tot of Merryland (1920)

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Dot and her neighbor Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a new fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

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The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories (1920)

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A collection of fairy tales including the story of a princess who loses her gravity.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1920)

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This is the first appearance of Peter from the book The Little White Bird. This is the trade edition that appeared throughout the 1920’s of the second Rackham-illustrated edition. The book was also available with twenty-four, sixteen or fewer i... View More

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Pollyooly Dances (1920)

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Pollyooly grows up and is caught up in a German plot during World War I. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): None

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The Princess and the Goblin (1920)

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The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Seven O’Clock Stories (1920)

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Short stories of everyday doings of three happy children who live on a farm, Jehosophat, Marmaduke and Hepzebiah. Read for free online at Lit2Go.... View More

Author(s): Robert Gordon Anderson
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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