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This new series of girls" books is in a new style of story writing.
The interest is in knowing the girls and seeing them solve the problems that develop their character. Incidentally, a great deal of historical information is imparted.
1. THE LINGER-NOTS AND THE MYSTERY HOUSE or The Story of Nine Adventurous Girls
How the Linger-Not girls met and formed their club seems commonplace, but this writer makes it fascinating, and how they made their club serve a great purpose continues the interest to the end, and introduces a new type of girlhood.
2. THE LINGER-NOTS AND THE VALLEY FEUD or The Great West Point Chain
The Linger-Not girls had no thought of becoming mixed up with feuds or mysteries, but their habit of being useful soon entangled them in some surprising adventures that turned out happily for all, and made the valley better because of their visit.
3. THE LINGER-NOTS AND THEIR GOLDEN QUEST or The Log of the Ocean Monarch
For a club of girls to become involved in a mystery leading back into the times of the California gold-rush, seems unnatural until the reader sees how it happened, and how the girls helped one of their friends to come into her rightful name and inheritance, forms a fine story.
4. THE LINGER-NOTS AND THE WHISPERING CHARMS or The Secret from Old Alaska
Whether engrossed in thrilling adventures in the Far North or occupied with quiet home duties, the Linger-Not girls could work unitedly to solve a colorful mystery in a way that interpreted American freedom to a sad young stranger, and brought happiness to her and to themselves.
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THE GIRL SCOUT SERIES
By LILIAN GARIS
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The highest ideals of girlhood as advocated by the foremost organizations of America form the background for these stories and while un.o.btrusive there is a message in every volume.
1. THE GIRL SCOUT PIONEERS or Winning the First B. C.
A story of the True Tred Troop in a Pennsylvania town. Two runaway girls, who want to see the city, are reclaimed through troop influence. The story is correct in scout detail.
2. THE GIRL SCOUTS AT BELLAIRE or Maid Mary"s Awakening
The story of a timid little maid who is afraid to take part in other girls" activities, while working n.o.bly alone for high ideals. How she was discovered by the Bellaire Troop and came into her own as "Maid Mary" makes a fascinating story.
3. THE GIRL SCOUTS AT SEA CREST or The Wig Wag Rescue
Luna Land, a little island by the sea, is wrapt in a mysterious seclusion, and Kitty Scuttle, a grotesque figure, succeeds in keeping all others at bay until the Girl Scouts come.
4. THE GIRL SCOUTS AT CAMP COMALONG or Peg of Tamarack Hills
The girls of Bobolink Troop spend their summer on the sh.o.r.es of Lake Hocomo. Their discovery of Peg, the mysterious rider, and the clearing up of her remarkable adventures afford a vigorous plot.
5. THE GIRL SCOUTS AT ROCKY LEDGE or Nora"s Real Vacation
Nora Blair is the pampered daughter of a frivolous mother. Her dislike for the rugged life of Girl Scouts is eventually changed to appreciation, when the rescue of little Lucia, a woodland waif, becomes a problem for the girls to solve.
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BILLIE BRADLEY SERIES
By JANET D. WHEELER
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1. BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE or The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners
Billie Bradley fell heir to an old homestead that was unoccupied and located far away in a lonely section of the country. How Billie went there, accompanied by some of her chums, and what queer things happened, go to make up a story no girl will want to miss.
2. BILLIE BRADLEY AT THREE-TOWERS HALL or Leading a Needed Rebellion
Three-Towers Hall was a boarding school for girls. For a short time after Billie arrived there all went well. But then the head of the school had to go on a long journey and she left the girls in charge of two teachers, sisters, who believed in severe discipline and in very, very plain food and little of it--and then there was a row! The girls wired for the head to come back--and all ended happily.
3. BILLIE BRADLEY ON LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND or The Mystery of the Wreck
One of Billie"s friends owned a summer bungalow on Lighthouse Island, near the coast. The school girls made up a party and visited the Island.
There was a storm and a wreck, and three little children were washed ash.o.r.e. They could tell nothing of themselves, and Billie and her chums set to work to solve the mystery of their ident.i.ty.
4. BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER CLa.s.sMATES or The Secret of the Locked Tower
Billie and her chums come to the rescue of several little children who have broken through the ice. There is the mystery of a lost invention, and also the dreaded mystery of the locked school tower.
5. BILLIE BRADLEY AT TWIN LAKES or Jolly Schoolgirls Afloat and Ash.o.r.e
A tale of outdoor adventure in which Billie and her chums have a great variety of adventures. They visit an artists" colony and there fall in with a strange girl living with an old boatman who abuses her constantly.
Billie befriended Hulda and the mystery surrounding the girl was finally cleared up.
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