The Outdoor Girls in Army Service; Or Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys

Published under the pseudonym "Laura Lee Hope," The Outdoor Girls series is a product of the Stratemeyer Syndicate and was published from 1913 to 1933 by Grosset and Dunlap in hardcover with dust jacket. Volumes 7 through 23 were written by Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward (Bradform and Reimer 2015, 185) which includes The Outdoor Girls in Army Service. The advertisment section (included here) includes a number of other titles in the Outdoor Girls series.


Across the series, four girls, Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Grace Ford, and Amy Stonington form a Camping and Tramping Club in their city of Deepdale. The four girls quickly become known as the "Outdoor Girls" due to their many outdoor activities.

The girls are joined in many of their activities by four boys: Allen Washburn, Frank Haley, Roy Anderson, and Will Ford, Grace's brother.

In Volume 8, The Outdoor Girls in Army Service, The boys join the military to fight in the World War and are gone for two years. During this time, the girls run a Hostess House and do other work to support the war effort. The girls also check the lists of the missing and wounded, praying that they will not recognize any of the names.

Work Cited
Clare Bradford and Mavis Reimer, eds. Girls, Texts, Cultures. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015, p. 185.