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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

Imagina (1914)

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A young boy imagines a mother to love him. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Julia Ellsworth Ford
Illustrator(s): Lauren Ford
Arthur Rackham

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The Little Nugget (1914)

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The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Little Nugget (1914)

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The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Will Grefe

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Penrod (1914)

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A saga of the American boy, in the days when the stable behind the house was empty but had not yet become a garage. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Gordon Grant

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Anne of the Island (1915)

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Anne Shirley attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA and finally makes up her mind about Gilbert. READ NOW.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): H. Weston Taylor

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Beltane the Smith (1915)

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Growing up isolated among hermits, young Beltane has a lot to learn about the world. His education begins when a stranger comes to the woods offering sword and horse lessons to the young man. Still, will he be ready when Lady Helen of Mortain rides t... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Arthur E. Becher

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The Golden Age (1915)

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Kenneth Grahame’s first collection of reminiscences of his childhood. This is the second set of illustrations. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): R. J. Enraght-Moony

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Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1915)

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Hans and Gretel’s father has been unable to work. If Hans wins the skating race it will help to support the household. Hans decides to ask the famous brain surgeon if he can help their father. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): George Wharton Edwards

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Manual of the Woodcraft Indians The Fourteenth Birch Bark Roll (1915)

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This is a handbook for starting and running an Indian tribe. This was one of the precursors of the Scouting movement, and includes ‘merit badges.’ First published in 1902, this is the fourteenth edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust... View More

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

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Red Head and Whistle Breeches (1915)

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When Mike Murphy goes to beg a pardon of the governor for his son, he knows the governor will recognize him as the boy who used to beat him up every day - and he does, with gratitude. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Arthur Davenport Fuller

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Smuggler's Island (1915)

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Marian Hadley is cast away on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez along with her four younger siblings, one only a baby, and successfully keeps them alive for seven years until they are finally rescued. This is the first edition which does not have ... View More

Author(s): Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s): Wallace Goldsmith

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Tom Slade Boy Scout (1915)

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Tom is a sixteen-year-old street tough, left to fend for himself by his worthless father, Bill Slade, after wealthy landowner John Temple evicts them. Tom scorns the Boy Scout movement, as does Temple and his effeminate son Wilfred. Because of his in... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Photographs

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Treasure Island (1915)

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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 Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead

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The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1916)

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An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

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God's Little Tumbler (1916)

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A play for children, adapted from the Medieval French Legend of the XII century. Appeared in the Delineator Volume 89, page 394, in 1916. December issue, page 8. Read online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Louise Collier Willcox
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Penrod and Sam (1916)

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Further adventures of Penrod Schofield and his friend Sam Williams, culminating in the dance party at Amy Rennsdale’s -- “Must ‘a’ got your bumpus!” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Worth Brehm

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The Water Babies (1916)

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Tom the chimney sweep is swept away to the bottom of the sea. Read online at archive.org.

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

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Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines (1917)

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A story about children living in the Philippines for American children. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Stuart Thomson
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Lost Endeavour (1917)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. Read online at archive.org.

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

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The Preacher of Cedar Mountain (1917)

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A novel of horse racing and Methodism. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

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