Brenda's Ward: A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia'Reed, Helen Leah
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Brenda's Ward: A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia'
Reed, Helen Leah
Boston (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction; Young women -- Juvenile fiction
Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
A charming picture of vacation life along the famous North Shore of
Massachusetts.
_The Outlook_ says: "The author is one of the best equipped of our
writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent,
and wholesome."
BRENDA'S COUSIN AT RADCLIFFE
Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens.
A remarkably real and fascinating story of a college girl's career,
excelling in interest Miss Reed's first "Brenda" book. The _Providence
News_ says of it: "No better college story has been written." The author
is a graduate of Radcliffe College which she describes.
No better college story has been written.--_Providence News._
Miss Reed is herself a Radcliffe woman, and she has made a sympathetic
and accurate study of the woman's college at Cambridge.--_Chicago
Evening Post._
The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of
larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome.--_The
Outlook_, N. Y.
The book has the background of old Cambridge, a little of Harvard, and
Boston in the distance.... The heroine is a fine girl, and the other
characters are girls of many varieties and from many places.--_New York
Commercial Advertiser._
She brings out all sides of the life, and, while making much of the fun
and good fellowship, does not let it be forgotten that work and growth
are the end and object of it all.--_Chicago Tribune._
BRENDA'S BARGAIN
Illustrated.
"The fourth and last of the 'Brenda' books," says _The Bookman_, "deals
with social settlement work, under conditions with which the author is
familiar." The _Boston Transcript_ adds: "This book is by far the best
of the series."
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_Another Popular "Brenda" Story_
AMY IN ACADIA
Illustrated by Katharine Pyle.
A delightful scene for a tale that arouses and holds the young reader's
attention and sympathies from the beginning.--_Washington Star._
The entire story is full of life, action, and entertainment, as well as
information.--_Newark Advertiser._
Amy, now a college senior, and some of her friends have various unique
experiences, and incidentally introduce a great many historical details
concerning the descendants of the exiled Acadians in the romantic region
of Clare in Nova Scotia.--_New York Sun._
A splendid tale for girls, carefully written, interesting, and full of
information concerning the romantic region made famous by the
vicissitudes of Evangeline.--_Toronto Globe._
The adventures of Amy and her girl friends among the descendants of the
exiled Acadians have a spice of novelty to them.--_Philadelphia Press._
So well written that it holds the attention of the young reader, and so
well developed in its story as to prove without question another popular
addition to the young folks' library.--_Boston Journal._
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_A Story for Younger Girls_
IRMA AND NAP
Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood.
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