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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

The Magic City (1910)

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Philip builds a model city using his blocks and things about the house. When he and his sister Lucy shrink to the size of the inhabitants, they must fight for the throne. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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Martin Hyde the Duke’s Messenger (1910)

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Martin Hyde gets caught up in the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): T. C. Dugdale

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Mike: A Public School Story (1910)

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Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his poor marks. It is ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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Prester John (1910)

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A young Scot goes out to South Africa where he becomes caught up in a native rebellion. This is a later American edition.

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): Henry C. Pitz

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Rewards and Fairies (1910)

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Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Frank Craig

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Rewards and Fairies (1910)

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Puck returns to take Dan and Una on further magical journeys into the past. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Frank Craig

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The Varmint (1910)

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Adventures at a boys’ boarding school - more football than baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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The Children of the New Forest (1911)

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During the English civil war, a family of children take to the woods to escape from the Parliamentary forces. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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David Copperfield (1911)

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This autobiographical novel was considered by its author as his greatest work, and his readers over the last century and a half have agreed with him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Frank Reynolds

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Further Adventures of Nils (1911)

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The further adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf - and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s): Astri Heiberg

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Jim Davis (1911)

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Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): None

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My Sea-Side Story Book (1911)

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This is a collection of stories, most by Fenn, including The Little Skipper.

Author(s): G. Manville Fenn
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): W. Rainey
Et al

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Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet (1911)

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The first English translation of the adventures of the mischevious puppet was originally published in 1892. This edition, with illustrations by Charles Folkard, was the standard edition for many decades and was reprinted many times by different publi... View More

Author(s): Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s): Charles Folkard

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Rolf in the Woods (1911)

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The story of a friendship between a white boy and an Indian in New York around the time of the War of 1812. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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The Story Girl (1911)

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Sara Stanley is the ‘story girl’ who entertains her family and friends with stories from the satiric to the macabre. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The Tennessee Shad (1911)

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The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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Tom Brown’s School Days (1911)

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One of the first English boarding school stories set at Rugby and written by an ‘old boy.’ The black and white illustrations are by Rhead, the color by Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Treasure Island (1911)

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When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
N. C. Wyeth

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Twinkle and Chubbins (1911)

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This omnibus includes all six of the Twinkle Tales: Bandit Jim Crow, Mr. Woodchuck, Prairie-Dog Town, Prince Mud-Turtle, Sugar-Loaf Mountain, and Twinkle's Enchantment. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1911)

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Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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