Books with title Elsies Girlhood

In this third volume in The Original Elsie Dinsmore Series, Elsie matures into a young woman as her father falls in love, marries, and provides her with a brother and sister: Horace Jr. and Rosebud. Elsie experiences a bittersweet agony in her first love and her first heartbreak, only to discover that true love has been with her almost as long as she can remember.

Harper has tried to forget the past and fit in at expensive boarding school Brodick Academy. But she can't escape the guilt of her twin sister Izzy's death and her own part in it. But new girl Kirsty seems to understand Harper. She has lost a sister, too. Harper finally feels secure. She finally feels...loved. As if she can grow beyond the person she was when Izzy died. Then Kirsty's behaviour becomes more erratic. Why is her life a perfect mirror of Harper's? And why is she so obsessed with Harper's dead sister? A darkly compulsive story about love, death, and growing up under the shadow of grief. Then Kirsty's behaviour becomes more erratic. Why is her life a perfect mirror of Harper's? And why is she so obsessed with Harper's dead sister? A darkly compulsive story about love, death, and growing up under the shadow of grief.

Enter the world of "Elsie Dinsmore"! These nineteenth-century fictional chronicles of a beautiful young heiress in the Civil War South have captivated generations of 10- to 14-year-old readers eager to follow Elsie's life from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Covers feature custom illustrations."Elsie's Girlhood, Book 3" Elsie's father remarries, giving her a mother she adores--and a brother and sister. But not everybody has the young woman's best interests in mind!

Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense. For fans of Jandy Nelson, Paula Hawkins, and Megan Abbott.'Emotive, creepy AND funny. A quality page-turner' SARAH CROSSAN'A new Cat Clarke novel is always something to celebrate and Girlhood could be her best yet' JUNO DAWSONHarper has tried to forget the past and fit in at expensive boarding school Duncraggan Academy. Her new group of friends are tight; the kind of girls who Harper knows have her back. But Harper can't escape the guilt of her twin sister's Jenna's death, and her own part in it - and she knows noone else will ever really understand. But new girl Kirsty seems to get Harper in ways she never expected. She has lost a sister too. Harper finally feels secure. She finally feels...loved. As if she can grow beyond the person she was when Jenna died. Then Kirsty's behaviour becomes more erratic. Why is her life a perfect mirror of Harper's? And why is she so obsessed with Harper's lost sister? Soon, Harper's closeness with Kirsty begins to threaten her other relationships, and her own sense of identity. How can Harper get back to the person she wants to be, and to the girls who mean the most to her?A darkly compulsive story about love, death, and growing up under the shadow of grief.

As Elsie experiences changes from girlhood to womanhood, her family is also undergoing change. With the marriage of her father to a woman Elsie has loved from childhood, Elsie is joined by a brother and sister who adore her. But all the support of her family cannot prepare her for what is ahead--her first love and her first heartbreak. Her relationship with her father forces her to give up on the man she desperately loves. But to her surprise, and the surprise of her father, true love's shadow has been with her since childhood. Join Elsie as she grows into a fine young woman, facing all the challenges--and blessings--that come with womanhood.

Martha Finley (1828-1909) who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Martha Farquharson, was the author of Black Steve (1865), Elsie Dinsmore (1867), Casella (1869), Holidays at Roselands (1873), Elsie's Girlhood (1873), Elsie's Womanhood (1875), Elsie's Motherhood (1876), Elsie's Children (1877), Grandmother Elsie (1882), Elsie's New Relations (|1883), Elsie at Nantucket (1884), The Two Elsies (1885), Elsie at Home (1887), Elsie's Kith and Kin (1889), Christmas with Grandma Elsie (1889), Elsie and the Raymonds (1890), Elsie's Vacation and After Events (1891), Elsie at Viamede (1892), Elsie at Ion (1893), and Elsie at the World's Fair (1894).