SECTION XIX 
REFERENCE READING FOR GIRL 
SCOUTS 
The following books have been selected for Girl Scouts with two 
ideas in mind: first, to list some of the best books of the world, with 
which all persons should be familiar, and second, to give books that 
should be easily available in all parts of the country. In some cities 
the Public Libraries have “Girl Scout Shelves.” Has your library 
one? In some places the Libraries have Beading Clubs for young 
people, conducted by the boys and girls themselves under the guidance 
of specially trained librarians who know just how to help bring the 
right book to hand, on any subject a Scout would be interested In. 
In Manhattan there are no less than thirty such clubs in connection 
with the various district libraries. Why not have one of these in 
your town? 
The American Library Association, whose headquarters are in 
Washington, will help to bring books to rural districts and places 
without regular public libraries. Write to them for help if yon 
need it. 
The Congressional Library may be called upon at any time for 
bibliography on any special topic. 
The books in this section are in addition to the special references 
for Proficiency Tests in Section XVIII. 
HANDBOOKS OF ALLIED OBG ANIZATION S 
Boy Scouts of America, Handbook for Boys, Doubleday and Page, 
1914. 
Boy Scout Camp Book, Edward Cave, Doubleday and Page. 
The Camp Fire Girls, (Handbook of Camp Fire Girls), 31 East 17th 
Street, N. Y. C. 
Girl Guiding, Sir Bobert Baden-Powell, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 
London. 
Scouting for Boys, Sir Bobert Baden-Powell, C. Arthur Pearson, 
Ltd., London. 
Woodcraft Manual for Boys and Woodcraft Manual for Girls by 
Ernest Thompson Seton, Doubleday and Page. 
ADVENTUBE 
Bobinson Crusoe, Daniel DeFoe. 
Jim Davis, John Masefield. 
A Woman Tenderfoot; Two Little Savages; Ernest Seton Thompson 
and Grace Gallatin. 
David Balfour, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Bobert Louis Stevenson. 
Bound the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues 
Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne. 
Swiss Family Bobinson, Wyss. 
ANIMAL STOBIES 
Jungle Books, First and Second; Just So Stories; Budyard Kipling. 
The Call of the Wild, Jack London. 
Bob, Son of Battle, Ollivant. 
Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Seton Thompson. 
Black Beauty, Sewell. 
Lad, a Dog; Albert Payson Terhune. 
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