Children's Literature Books
The USF Libraries growing Children’s and Young Adult Literature Collections currently include over 25,000 titles of American fiction for adolescent and young readers, dating from 1870 to the present. They provide researchers, teachers, students, and readers the opportunity to study the evolving culture and sociology of American adolescence through the literature written for them.
This digital collection of children’s literature from USF’s Special Collections is just the tip of the iceberg, featuring boys and girls series books from before 1923. This is a growing collection, and more titles will be added over time.
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The Riddle Club in Camp
Alice Dale Hardy
The club members went into camp on the edge of a beautiful lake. Here they had rousing good times swimming, boating and around the campfire. They fell in with a mysterious old man known as The Hermit of Triangle Island. Nobody knew his real name or where he came from until the propounding of a riddle solved these perplexing questions.
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The Riddle Club through the Holidays
Alice Dale Hardy
This volume takes in a great number of winter sports, including skating and sledding and the building of a huge snowman. It also gives the particulars of how the club treasurer lost the dues entrusted to his care and what the melting of the great snowman revealed.
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The Girl Scouts' Motor Trip
Edith Lavell
The Girl Scouts take a road trip to visit Alice's Aunt Emeline
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When We Were Young
A. A. Milne
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Cathalina at Greycliff
Harriet Pyne Grove
The girls at Greycliff get together and discover a new member, who undergoes mysteries and adventures with them.
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The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.
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Emily of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery
When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and loney, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
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Rootabaga Pigeons
Carl Sandburg, Maud Petersham, and Miska Petersham
Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man and many others
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The Cowardly Lion of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson and John R. Neill
The cowardly lion's story about the people who were hunting him.
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Boy Partners, February 1922
Edward Edson Lee
Contents: "The Wild and Woolly West" by George W. Cook; "The Storm Drain" by Lester A. Hansler; "When the Forest Flamed" by Robert Earle Wyman; "Troubles in Doubles" by Edward Edson Lee; "The Business of Writing" by Edward Edson Lee; "An Unusual Weapon" by Exton Talley; "Christening the Bike" by Kenneth Steele; "Johnny at the Picnic" by Walter Reiche; "Dude and Silas" by George W. Cook; "Her Nationalisty" by Herman Gottlieb; and "The Man Behind the Gun" by Darrell V. Martin.
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Boy Partners, August 1921
Edward Edson Lee
Contents: "Jimmy Decides to be a Plumber" by George W. Clow; "Troubles in Doubles" by Edward Edson Lee; "The County Championship" by Eli Fink; "The Business of Writing" by Edward Edson Lee; "The Secret of the Jade Throne" by Edward Edson Lee; "The Red Bull" by Carl L. Haefka;
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Boy Partners, May 1921
Edward Edson Lee
Contents: "The Hemlock Pass" by Egbert H. van Delden; "A Dog Can Think" by Everette W. Travis; "The Secret of the Jade Throne" by Edward Edson Lee; "Troubles in Doubles" by Edward Edson Lee; "When I Went in Swimming" by Wesley W. Henley; "I'd Like to Be A ---" by Alexander Heitowit; "The Den in the Oak Tree" by Charlie Eglet; and "Fred's April Fool Joke" by Joseph A. Szultz;
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Boy Partners, November 1921
Edward Edson Lee
Contents: "The Mind-Master" by Edward Edson Lee; "A Football Story" by John D. Ackerman; "Ima Lyre Has Another Adventure" by Flemon Sellers; "The Frog Hollow News" by Edward D. Sweaney; "The Business of Writing" by Edward Edson Lee; and "Trouble in Doubles" by Edward Edson Lee.
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Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
L. Frank Baum
In this tale, indefatigable heroine Mary Louise finds out that her beloved grandfather has been accused of treason and works tirelessly to clear his name and restore his reputation.
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T. Haviland Hicks Freshman
J. Raymond Elderdice and George Avison
Episodes in the life of a "green" freshman in at Bannister College, where tradition demands a deadly rivalry between the freshman and the sophomores.
