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Best Loved Girls' Books series
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Best Loved Girls' Books series
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Always Anne by Holly Wilson (1957)
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Anne Fraser longed to emulate Glory Hoffman, the most popular girl in high school, for Glory was everything Anne wanted to be--gleaming an...
One Small Voice by Bob and Jan Young (1961)
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Gina Morgan's ambition was to be an opera singer. All her spare time was spent in practicing, till suddenly, in her senior year, she r...
Sunday Dreamer by Bob and Jan Young (1962)
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The letter from Grandmother Demarest arrived just as Nancy was indulging in her favorite dream--she was living in a new town and people we...
Champlain Summer by Marjorie Vetter (1959)
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Who would let an oar float away without paddling anxiously after it? Kit Turner wondered as she fished the blade out of Lake Champlain. Bu...
The Hundred Steps by Holly Wilson (1958)
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Marcy McKay grew up to the sound of ore boat whistles and the pounding surf of Lake Superior. Her father was first mate on the North Star ...
Four-Party Line by Dorothy Gilman Butters (1954)
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This unique and charmingly-told junior novel traces the intermingling patterns in the lives of four girls who work as operators for the te...
Summer of Surprise by Helen Reynolds (1960)
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Not finish art school! Such a thing couldn't happen to her, Penny Warburton, could it? She had planned to spend this summer vacation i...
Halfpenny Linda by Jean Nielsen (1963)
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"You can't run away from yourself," Linda Duncan's father tells her one warm September night in Los Angeles as he puts h...
Boy Wanted by Janet Lambert (1959)
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In this captivating novel, Janet Lambert once again proves her gift for telling a lively story with warmth and rare insight into the world...
Stardust for Jennifer by Jane S. McIlvaine (1956)
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Beginning from her first year at Briar College Jennifer looks forward to another summer of work on the Collingwood Herald , and dates with...
Follow Your Dream by Marjorie Holmes (1961)
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So what's wrong with a girl's wanting to be a veterinarian? Especially when she's Tracey Temple, who has been loving and cari...
Saturday Night by Marjorie Holmes (1959)
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Carly is wearing a green Paisley skirt and an off-the-shoulder peasant blouse which she has bought with the first pay from her job at Dea...
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The Paris Hat by Mary Cunningham (1958)
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Ever since Rex, already a professional ballet dancer at eighteen, had complimented her on her gracefulness and asked for a date, Cathy Darfi...
Julie Builds Her Castle by Hila Colman (1959)
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Why in the world, thought Julie Hartman disconsolately, do we have to travel all the way across the United States to Cape Cod because Dad wa...
Skates for Marty by Barbara Clayton (1959)
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Sports had little appeal for Martha Ann Fuller. Although her beautiful mother had been an excellent ice-skater in her teens, Marty--plump, ...
Second Best by Barbara Clayton (1963)
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Lucy Ritchard felt that she was always second best. Her older sister Meg excelled scholastically and socially, her younger brother Brad was...
Angel on Skis by Betty Cavanna (1957)
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Angela gazed down at the powdery new snow with a rising sense of anticipation. Frost had turned its surface into crystals that glittered ...
The Look of Love by Denise Cass Brookman (1960)
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Candy was Kirk Stock's girl, and to be Kirk's girl was to be admired and respected--even envied. For he was a letterman in footba...
Say Hello, Candy by Bianca Bradbury (1961)
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Candy didn't start out by saying hello. In fact, she felt she was saying goodby to everything; to the only home she'd ever know, ...
Christy by Carole Bolton (1960)
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When the doorbell rang, Christy was wearing faded jeans and big fat curlers in her hair. She was in absolutely no condition to meet her f...
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