Her first book, a collaboration with Warder Allee, was
Jungle Island (1925), a nonfiction children's book describing the flora and fauna of
Barro Colorado Island in the
Panama Canal Other, similarly themed books by Allee were ''
Jane's Island (1931), a novel about scientific exploration at Woods Hole, Massachusetts which was a Newbery Honor book, and Ann's Surprising Summer'' (1933), a novel about biologists working to preserve the
dune country of northern Indiana. Allee wrote six historical novels about Quaker families confronting the changes of mid-19th century America. Three of them,
Judith Lankester (1930),
A House of Her Own (1934), and
Off to Philadelphia (1936), were about the struggles of the widow Charity Lankester and her eight daughters. More contemporary works by Allen include
The Great Tradition (1937), a novel about women studying in a biology laboratory at the University of Chicago which was a serious contrast with the frivolous activities usually depicted in college novels, and
The House (1944), a work about relationships between people of different ages, races, and social backgrounds which received the Children's Book Award (now the
Josette Frank Award) from the Child Study Association of America. ==Bibliography==