Barbara Hale: A Doctor's Daughter
by Lilian Garis
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About This Book
A great period read of the 1920-30s is captured in time by the author, Lilian C. Garis, (20 October 1873-19 April 1954). She wrote hundreds of books of juvenile fiction between around 1915 and the early 1940s. A former news reporter in New Jersey, she became part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate... writing not only under her own name but also as Margaret Penrose and Laura Lee Hope, (earliest books in the Bobbsey Twins series)
Chapters (27)
- BARBARA HALE: A DOCTOR’S DAUGHTER
- I—Sea Sands and Somersaults
- II—When the Day Arrived
- III—Her Father’s Daughter
- IV—On Her Way
- V—Billows the Beautiful
- VI—The Accident
- VII—Nicky and Vicky
- VIII—Clothes
- IX—Suspicions
- X—How Girls Choose Chums
- XI—The Midnight Ride
- XII—Dumped but Not Discouraged
- XIII—Crazy Quilts Galore
- XIV—A Honeysuckle Secret
- XV—The Santa Maria
- XVI—When a Girl Thinks Hard
- XVII—The Loss
- XVIII—Suspicions
- XIX—News from Nicky
- XX—Fighting It Out
- XXI—Brighter but Not Quite Clear
- XXII—Washington Answers
- XXIII—Prolonging the Agony
- XXIV—Scouts in the Wood
- XXV—A Revelation
- XXVI—Tumbling in
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