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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Five of Us – and Madeline (1925)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Plucky Allens (1925)
Four orphans are raised by their aunt in the good old fashioned way.
Author(s):
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The School at the Chalet (1925)
This is the first in a series of about 60 books by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970.
Author(s):
Elinor Brent-Dyer
Illustrator(s):
Nina K. Brisley
The Black Angels (1926)
They all seven loved to sing, except Joseph, and eagerly accepted Benjy's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
George Breans
Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1926)
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
George Wharton Edwards
Juan and Juanita (1926)
Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.
Author(s):
Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Light Princess (1926)
A collection of fairy tales including the story of a princess who loses her gravity.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Little Girl Blue (1926)
When Winkie’s mother is reported to have died, she is expelled from her boarding school and enters the inferno of the orphanage system.
Author(s):
Beth A. Retner
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Pride and Prejudice (1926)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Princess and the Goblin (1926)
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.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Children of the Mountain Eagle (1927)
The story of a girl who lives in the mountains of Albania.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Cleveland Miller
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Children of the New Forest (1927)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Bernhard Stafford Good
Emily’s Quest (1927)
In the last installment of the trilogy Emily falls in and out of love, and finally becomes a published author.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
Heidi (1927)
An orphan goes to live in the high pastures of Switzerland with her grandfather.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Clara M. Burd
The Princess and Curdie (1927)
In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie and his beasts restore Irene’s King-Papa to his throne.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Skipping Village: A Town of Not So Long Ago (1927)
Life in a small town in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on the author’s own childhood.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Bastable Children (1928)
An omnibus volume containing The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, and The New Treasure Seekers.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Browne
Et al
Boots of the Holly-Tree Inn (1928)
Harry and Norah elope to Gretna Green.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Bright Avenues (1928)
Nineteen year old Christine comes to San Francisco to seek her fortune during the roaring 20’s.
Author(s):
Josephine Bentham
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians (1928)
Three Chippewa children captured by the Sioux escape to warn their tribe of an imminent raid by their enemy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling