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Margaret Vandercook
1876–1958
Best known for lively girls’ adventure series, this American children’s writer filled her books with travel, friendship, and wartime service. Her stories helped shape early 20th-century popular fiction for young readers, especially the Camp Fire Girls, Ranch Girls, Red Cross Girls, and Girl Scouts books.
30 Audiobooks
The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls in Europe
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls at Home Again
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls in After Years
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls' Careers
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls on the edge of the desert
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire
by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls and the silver arrow
by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross girls with the Stars and Stripes
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure
by Margaret Vandercook
The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls by the Blue Lagoon
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas
by Margaret Vandercook
The Loves of Ambrose
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
by Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls at Boarding School
by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls in the British Trenches
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the Trail
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls at Half Moon Lake
by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls in Belgium
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls in Glorious France
by Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls on the Field of Honor
by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls on the French Firing Line
by Margaret Vandercook
The Girl Scouts of the Round Table
by Margaret Vandercook
About the author
Born Margaret O'Bannon Womack in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1877, she later married journalist John Filkin Vandercook and was widowed in 1908. After his death, she turned seriously to writing and went on to build a remarkably prolific career in children's literature.
She became especially associated with books for girls, and has been described as the "queen of Camp Fire writers." Alongside the Camp Fire Girls novels, she also wrote the Ranch Girls, Red Cross Girls, and Girl Scouts series, creating energetic stories that mixed adventure with friendship, independence, and public service.
Her work also appeared in magazines including Harper's Bazar, Delineator, and Pearson's Magazine, and she wrote at times under the pen name Margaret Love Sanderson. She died in 1958, leaving behind a large body of popular fiction that still survives through reprints and digital archives.