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Author Colman, Penny.

Title Girls : a history of growing up female in America / Penny Colman.

Publication Info. New York : Scholastic Reference, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.23 COLMAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 305.23 COLMAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J305.23 COL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Children's Department  J 305.23 COL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Children's Nonfiction  J 973 COLMAN    Check Shelf
Description 192 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.
Summary Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources.
Contents "It's a girl!": Understanding gender -- By land and by sea: How girls came to America -- In their mothers' footsteps: Girls in the early Colonial Period -- New ideas: Girls in the late Colonial Period -- Making demands: Girls in the early Nineteenth Century -- Diverse lives: Girls in the late Nineteenth Century -- "Prize it!": Girls in the early Twentieth Century -- Changes and Challenges: Girls in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Unprecedented possibilities: Girls approaching the Millennium -- Selected sources for further reading.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 6.0 53627.
Subject Girls -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Teenage girls -- United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Girls -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Teenage girls -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Girls -- History.
ISBN 0590371290 hardcover
9780590371292 hardcover
0439222346 paperback
9780439222341 paperback
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