Ameliaranne Keeps School by Constance Ward, Illustrated by S.B. Pearse, 1940 This sweet series of books was published between 1920 and 1950, and features the kind and resourceful Ameliaranne Stiggins. Ameliaranne is often left in charge of her five younger siblings while her mother is at work as a washerwoman. Needless to say, things rarely go smoothly, but Ameliaranne always…