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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

All Sail Set (1935)

When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the “Flying Cloud.”

Author(s): Armstrong Sperry
Illustrator(s): Armstrong Sperry

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

The Box of Delights, or When the Wolves were Running (1935)

Kay Harker is on his way home for the Christmas holidays when he falls a sleep on the train and has a wonderful adventure.

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

The Box of Delights, or When the Wolves were Running (1935)

Kay Harker is on his way home for the Christmas holidays when he falls a sleep on the train and has a wonderful adventure.

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

Camel Bells: A Boy of Baghdad (1935)

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Author(s): Anna Ratzesberger
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Coot Club (1935)

When the Hullabaloos moor right on top of the coots’ nest, what choice does Tom Dudgeon of the Bird Protection Society have but to set their motorboat adrift? Dot and Dick help the outlaw elude his pursuers.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter
Arthur Ransome

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Enter Psmith (1935)

Originally published as the second part of Mike. On his first day at his new public school Mike meets Psmith, the P is silent, a superannuated Etonian.

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

Enter Psmith (1935)

Originally published as the second part of Mike. On his first day at his new public school Mike meets Psmith, the P is silent, a superannuated Etonian. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Good Master (1935)

The adventures of Jancsi and his cousin Kate on his father’s ranch in Hungary.

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Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Honk the Moose (1935)

One winter up on Minnesota’s Iron Range, two boys adopt a moose who decides to stay the winter in the livery barn. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936

Jamaica Johnny (1935)

Johnny Morgan lives on the Island of Jamaica in the Caribbean.

Kintu: A Congo Adventure (1935)

Kintu, son of an African chief, goes into the jungle to test his courage. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s): Elizabeth Enright

A Lad of Dundee (1935)

This entry in the Children of the World series describes child life in Scotland.

Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)

Mary Poppins returns on the end of Michael’s kite string.

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Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

The Modern Struwwelpeter (1935)

An updating of the classic German satire, these sketches were first published in Punch.

Author(s): Jan Struther
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Peter and Gretchen of Old Nuremberg (1935)

Two children living with their cat in Bavaria.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Viola M. Jones
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Pinocchio (1935)

The story of a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy. This edition has been shortened by the editor.

Author(s): Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Snip, Snap, Snurr The Red Shoes and The Buttered Bread (1935)

This edition includes the story of how the triplets earn money for a birthday present for their mother and how the sun must shine for them to have butter for their bread.

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

The Three Little Warrens (1935)

A gentle domestic comedy.

Author(s): Sarah Wheelock
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1935)

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.

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

Young Walter Scott (1935)

An imaginative biography of Sir Walter Scott’s youth.

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

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