Juliette Low: Girl Scout Founder (Young Patriots series)
Texas Tomboy (American Regional)
Evvy’s Civil War
On her fourteenth birthday in June of 1861, spunky Evelyn Chamberlyn finds herself stuffed into a corset, a dress with hoops and a hairstyle so ornate she calls it the Edifice. It is time for her to be introduced to society-no more climbing fences and jumping into streams. She is expected to be a lady now.
But Evvy has an agenda of her own, questions of her own, and soon finds answers of her own too. She wants to prove that a woman can do everything a man can, and still be a true woman. But in order to find out all she needs to know, and keep her family together as the war rages around them, she must uncover her family’s secrets, and ultimately make impossible choices.
Evvy’s fascinating story of honor, love and a little sneakiness is based on the real diaries of Civil War-era women, whose legacy became the next generation of feminists, the suffragettes. More than that, she is an independent-minded heroine whose thoughts and ideas shed a new light on what it meant to be southern and female during the Civil War.
Carlota
Yet while Carlota throughly enjoys her freedom, she wants to be more than her father’s “son.” She wants to be herself, brave and courageous but free to show feelings of tenderness and compassion as well. Her father thinks such feelings are shameful, so Carlota must defy him. That will be the most difficult battle of all.
Winged Girl of Knossos
Here is an adventure story for older girls—an exciting tale of ancient Crete three thousand five hundred years ago! From this island the empire of the mighty Minos extended even to the southern slopes of Greece. It was an age of color, of drama and of danger. Phoenician traders brought tin from far off Cornwall, Minos sent gifts of purple dye to the Pharoahs of Egypt. What a background for a story! And yet this is the only book for young people—boys or girls—to be laid in that period. Erick Berry, the author and artist, has thoroughly sifted history and legend for the tale, and in her illustrations has reconstructed the actual murals of Knossos itself.
The heroine is Inas, the lithe, blue-eyed, tomboy daughter of the famous Daidalos. She is her father’s companion in his experiments with the flying gliders, and is, herself, renowned for her skill in bull-vaulting in the Royal ring. Jealousy of Daidalos’ success and of his position of favor with the king, and Inas own implication in the escape of Theseus from the labyrinth, conspire to drive both father and daughter to far-distant Siceli. Here occurs the destruction of Minos’ white-sailed fleet. Inas escapes with Kadmos, son of the captain of the fleet…and what happens next will be left for the reader to discover. Here is a tale of high adventure, but with a background both fascinating and valuable as supplementary reading for the study of Ancient history.
