Junior Literary Guild
The Junior Literary Guild is a commercial book club. It began in 1929 as an enterprise of the Literary Guild. By the 1950s, the majority of their book sales were to public libraries. In 2004 they started listing their Junior Literary Guild selections at their own website. What we refer to as “winners” are their selections for different age groups.
Winners:
Forty Faces (1940)
Drovers East (1940)
Greased Lightning (1940)
Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.
The Great Geppy (1940)
Every evening the safe at the Bott Bros. Three-Ring Circus is being robbed. This is obviously a job for the Great Geppy, a detective who can walk a tightrope, be shot from a cannon, train lions, and blend in with the clowns and the freaks.
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Paco Goes to the Fair: A Story of Far-Away Ecuador (1940)
Helen Hoke
Lentil (1940)
When the band dries up, Lentil saves the day with his harmonica.
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Kersti and Saint Nicholas (1940)
The adventures of the smallest of seven sisters ends on St. Nicholas Eve with a ride on his white horse.
The Year of Jubilo (1940)
When their father dies and his business fails, the Wymans retreat to their cottage in Maine to regroup.
Lassie Come-Home (1940)
When Joe’s father loses his job, Lassie is sold, but she refuses to stay and comes home across the length of England.
Left Till Called For (1941)
When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.