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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Alice Adams (1921)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Arthur William Brown
Thelma C. Grosvenor
The Golden Age (1921)
Memories of growing up orphaned by Kenneth Grahame. This was the first book Lois Lenski illustrated. It was not republished in America.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
Children of Ancient Britain (1922)
A reconstruction of how children lived in prehistoric Britain. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louise Lamprey
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Five Little Friends (1922)
Five school friends and their adventures in school and out. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
Sherred Willcox Adams
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Gentle Julia (1922)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Worth Brehm
C. Allan Gilbert
Heidi (1922)
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Nobody's Girl (1922)
Author(s):
Hector Malot
Illustrator(s):
Thelma Gooch
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
Heidi (1923)
The orphaned Heidi goes to live in the Swiss mountains with her grandfather. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Sense and Sensibility (1923)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Three of Salu: Around the Year in Northern Italy (1923)
This volume in the Children of the World series focuses on three children in Northern Italy.
Author(s):
Carol Della Chiesa
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)
Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Heidi (1924)
The story of an orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the high alpine pastures.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)
Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Peggy’s Playhouses (1924)
Peggy goes on a ten-week vacation with her Aunt Madge and discovers new playhouses wherever they go.
Author(s):
Clara W. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Peterkin Papers (1924)
A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Harold M. Brett
The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)
A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margery Clark
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Children of Dickens (1925)
Short excerpts from Dicken’s novels introducing his child characters.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Samuel McChord Crothers
Illustrator(s):
Euphame Mallison
Jessie Willcox Smith
Emily Climbs (1925)
In this second volume of the trilogy, Emily goes off to high school and continues her writing. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk