Brenda's Bargain: A Story for GirlsReed, Helen Leah
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Brenda's Bargain: A Story for Girls
Reed, Helen Leah
Boston (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction; Young women -- Juvenile fiction
Introduces a new generation of girls and boys, all well bred and gifted
with good manners, takes them through much fun and such adventures as
one may find on a small sandy island, and gives the girl a page or two
of saving common sense about her duties to boys and her obligation to be
true and womanly.--_New York Times Saturday Review._
NATHALIE'S CHUM
Illustrated by Ellen Bernard Thompson. 12mo. $1.20 _net._
A charming story of a courageous fifteen-year-old girl's effort to help
her older brother support an orphaned family of five. "Nathalie is the
sort of a young girl whom other girls like to read about," says the
_Hartford Courant_.
URSULA'S FRESHMAN. A Sequel to "Nathalie's Chum"
Illustrated by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. 12mo. $1.20 _net._
A hot-tempered, domineering girl, yet full of common sense and capable
of loyal love, and Jack, her cousin, who stoically accepts the loss of
his father's fortune, and begins to earn his own way through Yale, are
the two principal characters in Miss Ray's new book.
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_Myra Sawyer Hamlin's Stories_
NAN AT CAMP CHICOPEE; or, Nan's Summer with the Boys
Illustrated by Jessie McDermott. 16mo. $1.25.
The story is one of free, outdoor life, characterized by a deal of fine
descriptive writing and many bits of local color that invest the whole
book with an atmosphere which is actually fragrant.--_Bangor
Commercial._
NAN IN THE CITY; or, Nan's Winter with the Girls
Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.
A bright story in which children and animals play an equal part.--_The
Outlook._
She is a womanly girl, and we have met her like outside of story-books.
A wonderfully healthy, thoroughly womanly maiden, standing at the point
in life where childhood and womanhood meet, one follows with interest
the account of her first winter at school in a great city, where she
made new friends and found some old ones.--_Chicago Advance._
NAN'S CHICOPEE CHILDREN
Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.
Myra Sawyer Hamlin's stories are full of outdoor life, redolent of the
woods, the fields, and the mountain lakes, and her characters are very
natural young folk.--_Cambridge Tribune._
Full of happiness and helpfulness, with experiences in doors and out
that will interest all young people.--_Evening Standard, New Bedford._
CATHARINE'S PROXY. A Story of Schoolgirl Life
Illustrated by Florence E. Plaisted. 12mo. $1.20 _net._
An entertaining story of a very modern young American girl of wealth who
fails to appreciate the advantages of an expensive education, and at the
suggestion of her father gives her educational advantage to another
girl, who for a year becomes her proxy.
The girl characters are from fifteen to seventeen years of age, the boys
are preparing for college, and all are instilled with the spirit of
modern life in our best schools.
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