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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Carrot Seed (1945)
Everyone tells him his carrot won’t come up, but the little boy knows better.
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Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Censored the Goat (1945)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
A City for Lincoln (1945)
The youth of Springfield rally behind a crusading basketball coach to clean up their town’s politics.
Author(s):
John R. Tunis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Clear the Track for Michael’s Magic Train (1945)
Michael’s train starts in the living room, and brings you back home again.
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Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Cocolo (1945)
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
The Door Opens (1945)
The author records childhood memories of growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Author(s):
Ernst Lothar
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Fo’castle Waltz (1945)
The artist ships out for the Argentine.
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Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Forgetful Elephant (1945)
Author(s):
Jean Greene
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Freddy and the Popinjay (1945)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Longshanks (1945)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Mitchells (1945)
The five Mitchell children and their mother stay behind in Washington D.C. as father goes off to war.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
New Chum (1945)
The future poet laureate tells of his experiences as a new student aboard the training ship Conway.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Pippi Longstocking (1945)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Richard Kennedy
Skippy’s Family (1945)
An homage to a dog and his family.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth P. Korn
Strawberry Girl (1945)
Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Stuart Little (1945)
Stuart Little is only two inches tall, but he has great adventures.
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Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Surprise Place (1945)
Ellen Surprise and her brother Ronnie live in a fishing village in Nova Scotia.
Author(s):
Mary Graham Bonner
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1946)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)
Betsy and her friends are sophomores at Deep Valley High.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Blue Ridge Billy (1946)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski