A Boy’s Town
(Described for “Harper’s Young People”)
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| Author(s): | William Dean Howells |
| Illustrator(s): | Henry François Farny |
| Publisher(s): | Harper & Brothers |
| Year Published: | 1890 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | American Biography Boys Growing Up Families |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 247 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 367560836 |
Description
An account of the author’s early life in Hamilton, Ohio in the 1840’s. Read online at archive.org.
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Boy Life (1909)
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