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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Golden Book of 365 Stories (1955)
A story for every day of the year.
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Author(s):
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Guns for the Saratoga (1955)
Gideon Jones helps his father cast guns for the American Navy’s new sloop-of-war, then decides to join her crew to fight the British.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
The Happy Family (1955)
The story of a typical American family.
Author(s):
Nicole
Illustrator(s):
Corinne Malvern
Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Henry Reed, Inc. (1955)
Author(s):
Keith Robertson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Home on the Range (1955)
Jerry goes out West to be a cowboy, and swaps places with his friend Little Bear to see what it would be like to be an Indian.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Island Stallion Races (1955)
With the help of an extraterrestrial visitor, Steve Duncan races Flame.
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Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
The Journey of Johnny Rew (1955)
Orphaned by the war, Johnny learns that he might have family in the west of England and sets out in search of them.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Lemon and a Star (1955)
Four siblings grow up in New England in the early twentieth century.
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Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Prudence Seward
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1955)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Littlest Mouse (1955)
A tiny mouse undergoes many adventures.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
Digory’s uncle sends him and his neighbor Polly to the land between the worlds and he comes back with the cruel witch Jadis. In an attempt to get rid of her they all end up in the newborn world of Narnia.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Minnow on the Say (1955)
Author(s):
Philippa Pearce
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Miss Posy Longlegs (1955)
Posy the long-legged calf proves to have a talent for jumping.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Moominsummer Madness (1955)
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
Operation Wild Goose (1955)
The three Islanders, Pat, Nick and Toby, are on a salmon fishing expedition to Iceland when they stumble on a nest of spies.
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Pysen (1955)
The adventures of a little boy growing up in Sweden.
Author(s):
Edith Unnerstad
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
San Francisco Boy (1955)
A story about a family of Chinese Americans who live in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Santiago (1955)
A Guatemalan boy of Indian descent must decide on his future career.
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Author(s):
Ann Nolan Clark
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (1955)
When twins Joan and Joey Brown discover George, the shy stegosaurus, he helps them save their mother’s ranch.
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Herbert Buel