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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
Wiggin, Kate Douglas; The Birds' Christmas Carol, Polly Oliver's 
Problems, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. 
GIRD SCOUT STORIES 
Abbott, Jane; Keineth, Larkspur. 
Blanchard, Amy E.; A Girl Scout of Red Rose Troop. 
Widdemer, Margaret; Winona's Way and other Winona Books. 
POETRY 
Verse for Patriots, Jean Broadhurst and Clara Lawton Rhodes. 
Golden Staircase, (An Anthology), L. Chisholm. 
Lyra Heroica, William Ernest Henley. 
Blue Book of Poetry, Andrew Lang. 
Story Telling Poems, F. J. Olcott. 
Book of Famous Verse, Agnes Repplier. 
Home Book of Verse for Young Folks, Burton Egbert Stevenson. 
Child's Garden of Verse, Robert Louis Stevenson. 
Children's Book of Ballads, Mary W. Tileston. 
Golden Numbers, Kate Douglas Wiggin. 
WONDERS OF SCIENCE 
Magic of Science, Collins. 
The Story Book of Science, Jean Henri Fabre, Century, 
Field, Forest and Farm, Jean Henri Fabre, Century. 
In the Once Upon a Time, Lillian Gask. 
Book of the Ocean, Ingersoll. 
Careers of Danger and Daring, Cleveland Moffett. 
Science at Home, Russell. 
Wonders of Science, Eva March Tappan. 
The Book of Wonders. 
Magazines: Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American. 
FOR CAPTAINS, LIEUTENANTS, COMMISSIONERS AND 
OTHER GIRL SCOUT OFFICERS 
After a thorough study of Scouting for Girls, the authorized Ameri- 
can Handbook, Scout Captains and Lieutenants are urged to read the 
following list of allied Handbooks for Leaders as containing many 
practical hints for workers with young people, and emphasizing the 
essential unity of these manuals. 
A study of these manuals will bring out very clearly the fact that 
though our methods of approach and phraseology may differ in certain 
instances, our ultimate aim and our broad general principles are 
precisely the same. 
The books in the following list which have been starred are recom- 
mended as particularly practical for all students and friends of young 
people. They represent the latest thought of the greatest authorities 
on the subjects most closely allied with the sympathetic study of 
adolescence. It is impossible to isolate a study of the girlhood of 
America from the kindred topics of women in industry and politics, 
the growth of the community spirit, the present theories of education, 
and in general a brief survey of economics, sociology and psychology. 
Many of these titles appear technical and dry, but the books have 
been carefully selected with a view to their readable and stimulating 
qualities, and no one need be a profound student or a highly educated 
person in order to understand and appreciate them. 
It is especially advisable that Leaders in the Girl Scout organization 
should be reasonably well informed as to the principal social move- 
ments of the day so as to relate the effective organization of the 
young people of the country with corresponding progress along other 
lines. The more broadly cultivated our Captains and Councillors be- 
