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Books About Times Gone By
All books can be found by the author's last name in the Juvenile Fiction area unless noted on the booklist.
- Alcott, Louisa May.
- Little Women.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, four lively, talented sisters, have happy times within their warm family circle during Civil War days even though they are poor.
- Little Men.
In this sequel to Little Women, Jo and her husband start a school for boys and girls at Plumfield.
- Jo's Boys.
In this book the Little Women make their last appearance. The boys and girls of Plumfield have grown into young men and women facing life's problems and seeking life's happiness.
- An Old-fashioned Girl.
Tells of the first visit Polly Milton made to the city where her happy smile and manner made friends for her everywhere.
- Eight Cousins.
The story of 13-year-old Rose Campbell, an orphan, who lived with her Uncle Alec, and her seven livley boy cousins who were her playmates.
- Rose in Bloom.
Continues the story of the many pleasures and occasional disappointments of Rose and her cousins now grown up, and of Phebe whom they befriend.
- Alcott, Louisa May.
- Jack and Jill.
The story of a boy and a girl who, when sledding, took one coast too many and smashed up; and of the fun they had during their recovery.
- Under the Lilacs.
Two runaways from a circus, Ben and his performing dog, Sancho, find a home and friends in a country village.
- Avery, Gillian.
- Maria's Italian Spring.
When her uncle dies, Maria suddenly finds herself with a new guardian and a new home in a foreign land. At first she hates Italy, but after she makes a friend things begin to change.
- Avi.
- Emily Upham's Revenge.
During the summer of 1875, a 7-year-old girl is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and becomes involved in a very suspicious bank robbery.
- The History of Helpless Harry.
When young Harry is left for the first time by his overprotective parents in care of sweet Miss Annie, he is certain that she is a villain bent on stealing the family's money box. Harry then hides it and unwittingly befriends a real con man and would-be thief.
- Blos, Joan.
- A Gathering of Days: a New Englands Girl's Journal, 1830-32.
During Catherine's 14th year her widowed father marries, her best friend dies, her bookish stepmother unbends, and Catherine lets down her own reserve. It is a year of change, loss and leave-taking. (Newbery Award Winner)
- Brink, Carol Ryrie.
- Caddie Woodlawn.
Caddie and her two brothers have fun on the Wisconsin frontier in 1864. (Newbery Award Winner)
- Burnett, Francess.
- A Little Princess.
Sara Crewe, brought from India by her ship-captain father to London, goes to Miss Minchin's boarding school and has everything a princess would have. When news arrives of her father's death she is forced to live in the attic and act as a maid to the other girls. Starving and heartbroken, she retains her dignity until she is helped by a mysterious gentleman who lives next door.
- The Secret Garden.
Neglected by his father because of his mother's death at his birth, Colin lives the life of a spoiled and incurable invalid until his orphaned cousin Mary arrives. The two children secretly combine to restore his mother's locked garden and Colin to health with the help of a neighbor boy, Dickon, who has a special affinity for animals and plants.
- Edmonds, Walter.
- The Matchlock Gun.
In the middle of the 18th century 10-year-old Edward must protect his family from Indians when his father is away from home. (Newbery Award)
- Eunson, Dale.
- The Day They Gave Babies Away.
When the six Eunson children were left orphans the day before Christmas, 1868, the oldest, Bob, took the responsibility of finding homes for his younger brothers and sisters.
- Gates, Eleanor.
- The Poor Little Rich Girl.
The adventures of the emotionally under-privileged child of New York society parents in a world where metaphors such as "she's a snake in the grass" literally come true.
- Gilbreth, Frank.
- Cheaper by the Dozen.
Reminiscences of the Gilbreth family.
- Lenski, Lois.
- Strawberry Girl.
The story of Birdie Boyer, a warm-hearted little girl whose industrious family makes its living by raising strawberries in Florida, thus arousing the bitter enmity of the Slaters, their proud lazy neighbors. (Newbery Award Winner)
- Lovelace, Maud Hart.
- Betsy-Tacy.
Wherever Betsy was, there was Tacy . These two 5-year-olds became unseperable friends from almost the first day Tacy moves into the house across from Betsy's. They picnic together, go to school together, play paper dolls, dress up in long dresses, and imagine a world of their own.
- Betsy-Tacy and Tib.
When Tib comes to the little Minnesota town where Betsy and Tacy live she fits right in and makes a three-some who have many enjoyable times together.
- Betsy and Tacy Go over the Big Hill.
A queen of Summer was going to be crowned on Hill Street. Betsy and Tacy want Tib to be Queen, Julia and Katie, who are older want Julia. Their adventures during electioneering lead them to Little Syria, over the Big Hill, where they stumble upon a colony of picturesque refugees and make a new friend.
- Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown.
Betsy and Tacy are old enough to go beyond the Big Hill where they used to play and they venture towards the excitement of the town. Betsy enjoys the public library and Tib the thrill of riding in a horseless carriage. All three of them go to the theater and even take part in a real play.
- Montgomery, L.M.
- Anne of Avonlea.
Sixteen-year-old Anne has come back to Avonlea to teach school in the same village where she was taught. Here she meets a young man who brings her a first romance, Gilbert Blythe. (#2 in series)
- Anne of Green Gables.
Eleven-year-old Anne, an orphan in 1908, brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster parents, but first she must prove herself to her foster mother, who wanted a boy,and wants Anne returned to the orphanage at once. (#1 in series)
- Anne of Ingleside.
Fifteen years have come and gone since Anne and Gilbert were married on the orchard at Green Gables. Anne is the mother of five children and remains as full of joy as she was in the old days at Green Gables, a habit of living which she is able to impart to all her children. (#6 in series)
- Anne of the Island.
Anne goes to college to study to become a teacher. Here she makes new friends as many changes are taking place at Avonlea. Then she is proposed to by two young men and must chose between them and also decides if she wants marriage or a career. (#3 in series)
- Anne of Windy Poplars.
After Gilbert and Anne graduate from Redman College, he returns as a medical student, and she accepts a position as principal of Summerside High School. This is the story of these three busy years, some told in her chatty love letters to Gilbert. (#4 in series)
- Anne's House of Dreams.
Anne and Gilbert are married and start their married life in Anne's "house of dreams" on the harbor shore. (#5 in series)
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- Porter, Eleanor.
- Pollyanna.
Pollyanna, the orphaned daughter of missionaries, is a girl who sees the good side of everything. She brings joy and laughter into the life of her rich, old-maid aunt, a sick old lady, an orphan boy, and eventually everyone in town.
- Pollyanna Grows Up.
The further adventures of Pollyanna.
- Sawyer, Ruth.
- Roller Skates.
A little girl explores New York City on roller skates in the 1890's. (Newbery Award Winner)
- Sidney, Margaret.
- The Five Little Peppers and how They Grew.
A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman who changes their lives.
- Spyri, Johanna.
- Heidi.
Heidi is taken away from her home high in the Swiss Alps where she lives with her beloved grandfather and has happy times with Peter, the goatboy, and the goats. She is unhappy and homesick in the big city where she has been taken to be the companion of Clara, a crippled girl. In the end Heidi and Peter teach Clara to walk again back in the magical Alps.
- Streatfield, Noel.
- Ballet Shoes.
Three little girls attend the Children's Academy of Dancing in London to train for the professional stage. Petrova prefers the mechanics of automobiles and airplanes, but Pauline becomes a promising young actress and Posy shows great skill as a dancer.
- Theater Shoes.
Three English children brought up in the country find themselves living with their grandmother, a "grand dame" of the London theater, and they are soon attending a theatrical school.
- Taylor, Sydney.
- All-of-a-kind Family.
Five little Jewish girls; Ella, Henny, Charlotte, Sarah, and Gertie, grow up in New York's lower East Side in a happy home atmosphere before the First World War. They have an understanding mother and father, rich in kindness though poor in money.
- More All-of-a-kind Family.
The girls are two years older and Charlie, their baby brother, is now old enough to take part in the family activities.
- All-of-a-kind Family Uptown.
There are happy and anxious times as the family lives through the troubled period of World War I.
- All-of-a-kind Family Downtown.
The five little girls, devoted to their baby brother, are full of spirit and innocent mischief. Their interests center in Jewish religious festivals, Hebrew School, and Library visits; and they are also concerned about helping their newly orphaned neighbor Guido.
- Ella of all-of-a-kind Family.
Eighteen-year-old Ella is working and continuing her musical studies, and her beloved Jules is just home from the war. When she is given the opportunity to go on the stage -- not as a serious singer but as a performer in vaudville -- she is torn between her hopes for a career and her longing to settle down with Jules.
- Webster, Jean.
- Daddy Long-Legs.
Judy Abbot, an orphan girl who has lived all her life in the John Grier Home, is sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she has never seen. She writes him a series of letters, amusing and poignant, decorated with comical drawings, which he never answers. The two of them are in for a surprise when they finally meet. (Paperback)
- Wiggin, Kate Douglass.
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms.
Rebecca, high spirited and loving, comes to live with her two prim old-aunts and makes them happy with her sunny personality.
- Wilkins, Celia.
- Little City by the Lake.
Fifteen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, moves to Milwaukee in 1855 to experience city life and attend school.
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