Girl Scouts Series #11 and #12

The Girl Scouts series by Edith Lavell consists of ten volumes. The A. L. Burt Company also published two additional Girl Scouts books that were written by Harriet Pyne Grove and added to the end of the Lavell series. Since the tenth title of the Lavell books ends with Marjorie thinking of her future and appearing to live happily ever after, the end of the story of Marjorie Wilkinson definitely ends with volume 10.

I have always thought that the two books by Harriet Pyne Grove are unrelated to the Lavell books. I now have a copy of volume 12, The Girl Scout's Problem Solved. I have not read it but have flipped through it. I recognize none of the names of the different characters, so I am confident that the story is unrelated to the Lavell books. I do not have a copy of volume 11, The Girl Scouts of the Cardinal Patrol, so it is possible that some link could be made in that volume, but at this point in time, I feel that it is highly unlikely.

It is not unheard of for publishers to link books together in a series when in fact the books are unrelated to each other. The Moving Picture Girls series by Gertrude W. Morrison consists of seven titles. When the series was reprinted by World Syndicate and Goldsmith, a title named The Moving Picture Girls' Holidays was added to the set and even has the author stated as Laura Lee Hope on the dust jacket, yet that title has no relation to the other seven books. The Moving Picture Girls' Holidays is a book from the Ethel Morton series by Mable S. C. Smith.

Seen below is the copyright page of The Girl Scout's Problem Solved in which the two books by Harriet Pyne Grove are listed as part of the series by Edith Lavell.


The Girl Scouts of the Cardinal Patrol and The Girl Scout's Problem Solved are only listed on the books and jackets of those two titles. The ten books by Edith Lavell have no mention of volumes 11 and 12 on any of the books or jackets. The Lavell series is just the ten volumes, and the books by Harriet Pyne Grove are a short two-volume series that are packaged as part of the Lavell series.