For Girls Fourteen to Sixteen
Reading edition
Across the Campus. By Caroline M. Fuller.
A girl’s college story.
Anne of Avonlea. By Lucy M. Montgomery.
A sequel to “Anne of Green Gables.”
Anne of Green Gables. By Lucy M. Montgomery.
An elderly brother and sister, living on a farm on Prince Edward’s Island, want a boy to assist them. The brother asks for one from an orphan asylum and a girl is sent instead. This is one of the best stories of recent years for girls.
Biography of a Prairie Girl, The. By Eleanor Gates.
A story of life on a Dakota farm.
Captain’s Daughter, The. By Gwendolen Overton.
A story of girl life at an army post on the frontier.
24Captain Polly of Annapolis. By Gabrielle E. Jackson.
Polly is an original, attractive little girl, a leader among her playfellows, and with ideals which make her seem older than her years. The story is linked with the Naval Academy, and the Battleship fleet which made the journey round the world.
Confidences—Talks with a Young Girl Concerning Herself. By E. B. Lowry, M.D.
Gives the facts concerning the development of life in such clear and suitable language that it may be placed in the hands of the young girl.
Dale Girls, The. By Frances Weston Carruth.
A story of every-day life, with two attractive young heroines.
Daughter of Freedom, A. By Amy E. Blanchard.
A story of the latter period of the War for Independence.
Dorothy Brooke’s School Days. By Frances C. Sparhawk.
25Dorothy Brooke’s Vacation. By Frances C. Sparhawk.
The first volume is a good story of school life, and the second tells of a vacation spent in great part on a motor trip. A chauffeur who enacts the villain; an elderly young lady, and an absent-minded professor supply a source of good-humored fun.
Elinor’s College Career. By Julia A. Schwartz.
Takes four girls of widely different characters through the four years of college, supposedly Vassar.
Faith Gartney’s Girlhood. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
Tells about Faith’s New Year oracle, and of what it meant to her.
Frolics at Fairmount. By Etta A. Baker.
Follows “The Girls of Fairmount.”
From Sioux to Susan. By Agnes McClelland Daulton.
Tells about a brave, generous, madcap girl, who had times of storm and stress in overcoming her faults.
26Girl Wanted, The. By Nixon Waterman.
Cheerful, friendly talks to young women. An aid to the moulding of temperament and the shaping of character.
Girls of Fairmount, The. By Etta A. Baker.
A story of genuine, natural, and generous girls; the keynote is loyalty to friends.
Hearts and Coronets. By Alice Wilson Fox.
The school life of Audrey Denver, which includes some rather unusual experiences.
Hitherto. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
A story of New England country life of fifty years ago.
Janet’s College Career. By Amy E. Blanchard.
Tells of the studies, pleasures, and various experiences that make up the life of a college girl.
Katrina. By Ellen Douglas Deland.
The story of a girl who indulged her waywardness and stand-offishness until she learned the sad results brought about by such qualities.
27Land of Pluck, The. By Mary Mapes Dodge.
A series of stories and sketches, chiefly of Holland.
New Chronicles of Rebecca. By Kate Douglas Wiggin.
This book takes Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm up to her eighteenth birthday.
Oh! Christina! By J. J. Bell.
Christina is a quaint, good-hearted little Scotch girl, and her dialect is very funny to American ears. Very humorous.
Other Girls, The. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
A companion to “Real Folks.”
Philippa at Halcyon. By Katharine Holland Brown.
A rattling good college story for girls. It is full of fun, and the characters are very human.
Polly Page Ranch Club, The. By Izola L. Forrester.
Sprightly Polly Page is brimful of ideas and is quite able to carry them out. She plans a summer outing in Wyoming for the Ranch 28Club and arranges for the jolly good times the girls have while there. Polly is a thoroughly fine, all-round girl, who cannot fail to make friends. Follows “The Polly Page Yacht Club.”
Polly Page Yacht Club, The. By Izola L. Forrester.
A sprightly girl, leader of her set, forms a yacht club, secures a yacht, and engages a skipper to sail it. The story tells about the jolly times the club members have.
Prairie Rose, A. By Bertha E. Bush.
A true-to-life story of pioneer days in Iowa.
Real Folks. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
Two orphan sisters are adopted, one into a family where luxury abounds, and the other into a simple country home. Follows “We Girls.”
Revolutionary Maid, A. By Amy E. Blanchard.
A story of the middle period in the War for Independence.
The “Sidney” Books. By Anna Chapin Ray.
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Sidney: Her Summer on the St. Lawrence.
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Janet: Her Winter in Quebec.
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Day: Her Year in New York.
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Sidney at College.
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Janet at Odds.
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Sidney: Her Senior Year.
Very interesting stories of Smith College life. In the last volume the Commencement that ends the story rounds out several love affairs which have developed in this group of young people.
Sister’s Vocation, and Other Stories. By Josephine Daskam Bacon.
A collection of eight stories of which girls are the heroines. Each has a striking situation and incident, and is well told.
Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life, A. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
About a summer spent in the White Mountains. A story full of kindly, Christian feeling, spiced with quaint New England characters and their odd reflections. Followed by “We Girls,” “Real Folks,” and “The Other Girls.”
“Teddy Books,” The. By Anna Chapin Ray.
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Teddy: Her Book.
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Phebe: Her Profession. 30
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Teddy: Her Daughter.
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Nathalie’s Chum.
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Ursula’s Freshman.
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Nathalie’s Sister.
There is genuine sympathy with boy and girl life in these books. The style is unaffected, and the stories give a wholesome view of life.
That Freshman. By Christina Catrevas.
A Mount Holyoke College story for girls. The heroine is an impulsive, attractive girl, with fine attributes of character.
Two College Girls. By Helen Dawes Brown.
Tells of college life, with its classroom dilemmas, spreads, and holiday merrymakings.
Two Maryland Girls. By Amy E. Blanchard.
The story of two girls just home from boarding-school, who are introduced to the social life of an old Maryland town.
Two Wyoming Girls. By Carrie L. Marshall.
Two girls, thrown upon their own resources, are obliged to “prove up” their homestead claim. In doing so they meet with difficulties and adventures.
31We Girls. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
The home life of three New England girls. Sequel to “A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life.”
“Wide Awake Girls” Series, The. By Ruth K. Ellis.
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Wide Awake Girls, The.
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Wide Awake Girls in Winsted, The.
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Wide Awake Girls at College, The.
Bright stories, full of action. The “Wide Awake” girls establish a library in a country town. The third volume tells of the youthful gaiety of college life.
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