Girl Sleuth (50 page)

Harrison, John M.
The Blade of Toledo: The First 150 Years.
Toledo, OH: Toledo Blade Co., 1985.

Hartmann, Susan M.
The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s.
Boston: Twayne, 1982.

Hawes, Joseph M., and N. Ray Hiner.
American Childhood: A Research Guide and Historical Handbook.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Heiferman, Marvin, and Carole Kismaric,
The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G.
Writing a Woman's Life.
New York: Ballantine, 1988.

Hope, Laura Lee.
The Bobbsey Twins; or, Merry Days Indoors and Out.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1904.

Johnson, Deidre.
Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
Twayne's United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne, 1993.

Keene, Carolyn.
The Bungalow Mystery.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.

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The Clue in the Diary.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932.

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The Clue of the Dancing Puppet.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962.

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The Hidden Staircase.
Facsimile edition. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1991.

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The Mystery at Lilac Inn.
Facsimile edition. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1994.

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The Mystery of the Ivory Charm.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936.

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Mystery of the Tolling Bell.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976.

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The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977.

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The Nancy Drew Sleuth Book: Clues to Good Sleuthing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1979.

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The Secret at Shadow Ranch.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931.

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The Secret at Shadow Ranch.
Facsimile edition. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1994.

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The Secret in the Old Attic.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1944.

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The Secret of the Old Clock.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930.

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The Secret of the Old Clock.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1959.

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Secret of the Old Clock.
Facsimile edition. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1992.

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Secrets Can Kill.
New York: Archway/Pocket Books, 1986.

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The Slumber Party Secret.
New York: Minstrel/Pocket Books, 1994.

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Two Points to Murder.
New York: Archway/Pocket Books, 1987.

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Without a Trace.
New York: Aladdin Books, 2004.

Lanes, Selma G.
Down the Rabbit Hole: Adventures and Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature.
New York: Atheneum Books, 1976.

Lurie, Alison.
Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter.
New York: Penguin Books, 2003.

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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's Literature.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

Marcus, Leonard S., ed.
Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom.
New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

Mason, Bobbie Ann.
The Girl Sleuth: On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, and Cherry Ames.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

McFarlane, Leslie.
Ghost of the Hardy Boys.
New York: Methuen/Two Continents, 1976.

Meigs, Cornelia, et al., eds.
A Critical History of Children's Literature: A Survey of Children's Books in English from Earliest Times to the Present, Prepared in Four Parts Under the Editorship of Cornelia Meigs.
New York: Macmillan, 1953.

Milford, Nancy.
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
New York: Random House, 2001.

Orchard, Hugh.
Fifty Years of Chautauqua: Its Beginnings, Its Development, Its Message and Its Life.
Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1923.

Palladino, Grace.
Teenagers: An American History.
New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Penrose, Margaret.
Dorothy Dale, A Girl of Today.
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1917.

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Dorothy Dale's Engagement.
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1917.

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The Motor Girls; or, A Mystery of the Road.
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1910.

Penzler, Otto, ed.
The Great Detectives: A Host of the World's Most Celebrated Sleuths Are Unmasked by Their Authors.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.

Plunkett-Powell, Karen.
The Nancy Drew Scrapbook: 60 Years of America's Favorite Teenage Sleuth.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Prager, Arthur.
Rascals at Large; or, The Clue in the Old Nostalgia.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

Richmond, Rebecca.
Chautauqua: An American Place.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Rollin, Lucy.
Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide.
West-port, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Rosenthal, Naomi.
Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Schrum, Kelly.
Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1945.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Shapiro, Laura.
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.
New York: Viking, 2004.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, et al., eds.
History of Woman Suffrage.
Vol. 1. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881.

Steeples, Douglas, and David O. Whitten.
Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Stratemeyer, Edward.
Richard Dare's Venture; or, Striking Out for Himself.
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1902.

Tarbox, Gwen Athene.
The Clubwomen's Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive Era Girls' Fiction, 1890–1940.
New York: Garland, 2000.

West, Elliott, and Paula Petrik, eds.
Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850–1950.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

Woody, Thomas.
A History of Women's Education in the United States.
Lancaster, PA: Science Press, 1929.

Yellin, Emily.
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II.
New York: Free Press, 2004.

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