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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

Daddies (1953)

While children are playing their daddies are working to make sure there is food on the table, clothes to wear and a roof over their heads. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Janet Frank
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Drovers Road (1953)

Gay Allan writes about her family and their life on Drovers Road, their sheep station in New Zealand, so they will remember how happy they were when they are grown up.

Author(s): Joyce West
Illustrator(s): Joyce West

Farmer Boy (1953)

This is the story of Almanzo Wilder and his brother Royal growing up with their two sisters on a big farm in New York state.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)

How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.

Author(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Journey Cake, Ho! (1953)

When hard times come, Johnny sets out to seek his fortune with the journey cake in his knapsack. When the journey cake escapes it leads him on a merry chase, picking up animals as it goes until Johnny finds himself home again. Read online at archive.... View More

Author(s): Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s): Robert McCloskey

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1954
Caldecott Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1953

The Magic Compass (1953)

A story from Mary Poppins.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Gertrude Elliott

The Marlows and the Traitor (1953)

The four younger Marlows and their mother are spending the Easter holidays by the sea when they stumble on a spy.

Author(s): Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s): Doritie Kettlewell

Mike and Psmith (1953)

In Mike at Wrykyn 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 ... View More

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

Mike at Wrykyn (1953)

In Mike at Wrykyn 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 ... View More

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

My Friend Yakub (1953)

The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953)

Peter T. Hooper finds scrambled hen’s eggs too boring and goes on an exotic egg hunt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

The Silver Chair (1953)

Eustace Scrubb who had accompanied Edmund and Lucy on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, returns to Narnia with his schoolmate Jill Pole and is tasked by Aslan with recovering Caspian’s son, Prince Rilian. Rread online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Sparkplug of the Hornets (1953)

Peewee Carson has what it takes, and in Indiana, any high school basketball team can make it to the state championship.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Don Sibley

Tim in Danger (1953)

When Ginger runs away to sea, Tim and Charlotte sign on to a ship to follow him and endure many hardships before they all see home again. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Trouble at Beaver Dam (1953)

A twelve year old farm boy deals with the problems caused by a beaver dam on his parent’s land. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Florence Matthews Tchaika
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1954)

The war of the White Roses and the Red becomes tangled up in a murder mystery.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Don Freeman

The Black Stallion’s Sulky Colt (1954)

When Tom Messenger is injured in an accident, it’s up to Alec Ramsay and Henry to race Bonfire in the Hambletonian.

Author(s): Walter Farley
Illustrator(s): Harold Eldridge

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1954

Bobby and His Band (1954)

The story of a young boy and his band.

Read online at archive.org.

We count 43 unnumbered pages.

Author(s): Sally Scott
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush

The Buckboard Stranger (1954)

When a slick-talking stranger with a fast rig comes to town, Chuck and Barney get caught up in a mystery. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Paul Calle

The Children of Green Knowe (1954)

Tolly comes to visit his great-grandmother at her ancient manor house, Green Knowe, and meets some of his forbears. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s): Peter Boston

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