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1. Ballet stories were once very popular with girls. Mabel Esther Allan wrote a series under her pseudonym "Jean Estoril". What was the name of her dancing heroine?
2. The author Stephen Tring created a series about a girl called Penny. Penny had an elder sister called Felicity but Penny always called her by another version of her real name. What was it?
3. In which series of books would you find a girl called Ethel Brown?
4. What is the name of the young heroine in the "Trebizon" school series by Anne Digby?
5. Which of the three Pullein-Thompson sisters wrote the series of stories about Noel and Henry?
6. Which is the first of the "Jill" books by Ruby Ferguson?
7. In the "Jill" books, what does Jill's mother do to earn her living?
8. What is the English name of the book by Noel Streatfield in which two little girls, Lalla and Harriet, set out to be skating champions?
9. Which writer of historical children's novels produced the award-winning "The Wool-Pack"?
10. Which of the following is not a genuine "Susan" book in the series by Jane Shaw?
11. In "Swallows and Amazons", which member of the Swallow's crew captured the rival dinghy belonging to the Amazons?
12. In Enid Blyton's "The Twins at St.Clare's", what is the Irish surname of the twin sisters Pat and Isabel?
13. In the 1941 Carnegie medal winner "We couldn't leave Dinah" by Mary Treadgold what sort of animal is Dinah?
14. In the "Bannermere" series by Geoffrey Trease what is it that stops Penny from becoming a successful stage actress?
15. What is the real name of the male writer who used "Sylvia Little" and "Nesta Grant" as two of his pseudonyms when he wrote some of his girls' stories?
16. Famous for his "Lone Pine" stories Malcolm Saville also attempted a series involving a secret agent that was intended for much older teenagers. What was the name of the agent and thus the series?
17. "Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre" and "Torley Grange" are two of the stories by which popular girls' story writer?
18. What is name of the girl who is the first heroine in the long "Sadler's Wells" series about ballet by Lorna Hill?
19. What is the real first name of Captain W.E.Johns' flying heroine Worrals?
20. Dorothy Carter (real name Eileen Heming) also produced a series of flying stories with a female pilot as the main character. Most of the titles had "of the Air" in them. Who was the heroine?
21. Which children's author wrote the "Mantlemass" series of historical novels?
22. Where are the children evacuated to in Nina Bawden's "Carrie's War"?
23. In William Mayne's story "A Grass Rope", what does the little girl hope to do with the grass rope?
24. To which series do these books really belong : "Damaris Dances", "Damaris at Dorothy's", "Maidlin to the Rescue".
25. What is the real name of Dimsie in the "Dimsie" stories by Dorita Fairlie Bruce?
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