Alice Turner Curtis: 12 books

Children's and young adult author Alice Turner Curtis was born in Sullivan, ME. She lived most of her life in Boston, MA. Alice Turner Curtis is the author of "The Little Maid" Series of books. Originally published by Penn, during the period from 1913 to 1937.

Children's and young adult author Alice Turner Curtis was born in Sullivan, ME. She lived most of her life in Boston, MA. Alice Turner Curtis is the author of "The Little Maid" Series of books. Originally published by Penn, during the period from 1913 to 1937.

A LIBERTY POLE Anna and Rebecca Weston, carrying a big basket between them, ran along the path that led from their home to the Machias River. It was a pleasant May morning in 1775, and the air was filled with the fragrance of the freshly cut pine logs that had been poled down the river in big rafts to...

ANNE NELSON I don't know what I can do with you, I'm sure! declared Mistress Stoddard, looking down at the small girl who stood on her door-step gazing wistfully up at her. A man at the wharf said that you didn't have any little girls, responded the child, and so I thought – – 'Twas Joe Starkweather...

Written for young ladies, this is a tale of a young lady who wants to become a spy for the Americans during the Revlutionary Way. Thrilling reading for all members of the family.

AMANDA’S MISTAKE “Do you think I might go, Aunt Martha?” There was a pleading note in the little girl’s voice as she stood close by Mrs. Stoddard’s chair and watched her folding the thin blue paper on which Rose Freeman’s letter was written. “It is a pleasant invitation, surely,” replied...

HERO IS LOST "Where do you suppose Hero can be, Aunt Deborah? He isn't anywhere about the house, or in the shed or the garden," and Ruth Pennell's voice sounded as if she could hardly keep back the tears as she stood in the doorway of the pleasant kitchen where Aunt Deborah was at work. "Do you suppose...

ESTHER AND BRUIN Faith Carew was ten years old when Esther Eldridge came to visit her. Faith lived in a big comfortable log cabin on one of the sloping hillsides of the Green Mountains. Below the cabin was her father’s mill; and to Faith it always seemed as if the mill-stream had a gay little song...

The first Anne Nelson story was A Little Maid of Province Town, which told how the little Cape Cod girl's father went away to fight for the colonies, how she went to live with the Stoddards, how she escaped perils from Indians and wolves, made an unexpected trip to Boston, and carried an important message for the colonial army.

This is the story of a little girl whose home was among the Green Mountains of Vermont, then known as The Wilderness, at the beginning of the American Revolution; and at the time when Ethan Allen and his brave soldiers were on guard to defend their rights. Ethan Allen was the friend of Faith, the heroine...

Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her faTher and mOther in The beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before The opening of The Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her new friends, and Their chivalrous kindness toward The little norThern girl, as well as Sylvia's...