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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

The Book of Woodcraft (1912)

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A comprehensive guide to woodcraft by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

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

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Dickens’s Children (1912)

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This is a thin portfolio with ten illustrations and accompanying text. The illustrations were reused in The Children of Dickens. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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Junior Classics Volume 7 (1912)

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Short accounts of courageous men and women from history for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Various

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New Chum (1912)

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The future poet laureate tells of his experiences as a new student aboard the training ship Conway. This edition includes additional material.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Peter Pan Portfolio (1912)

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This is a limited edition elephant porfolio with twelve mounted plates, which were matted in the British edition. Read for free online at the University of Florida.... View More

Author(s): None
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Stover at Yale (1912)

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Having graduated Lawrenceville School, Dink Stover matriculates at Yale. Read online at archive.org.

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

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The Amateur Gentleman (1913)

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Barnabas Barty comes into the possession of a vast fortune and determines to use it to become a gentleman. He must first knock his father down, although as respectfully as may be. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Herman Pfeifer

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Camping on the Great Lakes (1913)

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A story of boys boating and camping on the Great Lakes. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Raymond S. Spears
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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The Golden Road (1913)

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In this sequel to The Story Girl, the children produce their own magazine and begin to grow up. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

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

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Kidnapped (1913)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1913)

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When his uncles die, Cedric becomes heir to his grandfather’s estate, and soon takes over the old gentleman’s heart as well. Reginald Birch did a new suite of illustrations for this edition. The scan is of the original edition. Read onlin... View More

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Reginald Bathurst Birch

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Our Children (1913)

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Brief sketches of boys and girls in town and country from France. This English translations is of the first half of Nos Enfants. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Anatole France
Illustrator(s): Maurice Boutet de Monvel

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Sinopah, the Indian Boy (1913)

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The story of Sinopah, a Blackfoot Indian boy who grew up to become the great chief Pitamakan. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): James Willard Schultz
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Tad Sheldon, Boy Scout (1913)

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Early boy scout adventures along Yaquina Bay in Oregon where the troop patrols for mariners in distress.

Author(s): John Fleming Wilson
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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The Terrible Twins (1913)

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A pair of twins, brother and sister, terrorize the community of Little Deeping, to say nothing of the cats. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Hanson Booth

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Wet Magic (1913)

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When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1913)

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The 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): Mary Hamilton Frye

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The Boy Emigrants (1914)

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Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s): Harvey Thomas Dunn

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Feats on the Fjord (1914)

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An adventure story set in Norway. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Harriet Martineau
Illustrator(s): W. Cubitt Cooke
Arthur Rackham

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Freckles (1914)

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A young man missing his right hand undertakes to guard the Limberlost from timber thieves.

Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator(s): Thomas J. Fogarty

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