Alice nee Turner Curtis (also known as Mrs. Irving Curtis), was an American author of children's books. She was popular for the Grandpa's Little Girls series (1907- 1912), the Little Maid series (1913-1937) and the Yankee Girl series (1920-1930) which were all published by the Penn Publishing Company. Some of her works include: Grandpa's Little Girls (1907), The Little Heroine at School (1909), A Little Maid of Province Town (1913), A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony (1914), A Little Maid of Narragansett Bay (1915), A Little Maid of Bunker Hill (1916), A Little Maid of Ticonderoga (1917), A Little Maid of Old Connecticut (1918), A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia (1919), A Challenge to Adventure (1919), A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter (1920), A Little Maid of Old Maine (1920), A Little Maid of Old New York (1921), A Little Maid of Virginia (1922), A Little Maid of Maryland (1923), A Little Maid of Mohawk Valley (1924), A Yankee Girl at Gettysburg (1926), A Little Maid of Vermont (1927), A Little Maid of New Orleans (1930), A Frontier Girl of Massachusetts (1930), A Frontier Girl of New York (1931) and A Little Maid of Valley Forge (1937).
Alice Turner Curtis (1860-1958) was an American writer of juvenile historical fiction.
While visiting her aunt and cousin near Fort Ticonderoga, on the western shore of Lake Champlain, Faith Carew learns a secret about the fort that concerns Ethan Allen's Green Mountain boys.
In the spring of 1781 at her home near Yorktown, Virginia, eleven-year-old Rose Elinor Moore and her young cousin share adventures, including witnessing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
unloaded the lunch wagon, and then Mrs. Hastings called the girls to decide on the best place to erect the May-pole, a fine birch tree that Black Jason was now chopping down. "There are so many good places!
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