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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Martin’s Dinosaur (1959)
Martin’s education has been neglected and he doesn’t recognize a dragon when he sees one.
Author(s):
Reda Davis
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Mill Creek Irregulars: Special Detectives (1959)
Steve and Sim look into the strange goings on at a neighboring farm and spend their first night in jail.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Everett Raymond Kinstler
My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.
Author(s):
Jean Craighead George
Illustrator(s):
Jean Craighead George
Naughty Bunny (1959)
Bunny cannot tell a lie - he has been naughty.
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Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel (1959)
Nicholas and his friend save the train when the engineer and the fireman are laid low by poisoned tea.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Nine Questions (1959)
Author(s):
Edward Fenton
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Perilous Pilgrimage (1959)
Like most of their companions who survived the journey, Geoffrey de Villacours and his sister Alys are sold into slavery in Egypt.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Ride Into Danger (1959)
A tale of knights and squires during the reign of Edward III of England.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The River at Green Knowe (1959)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Seven Dogs (1959)
The triplets help out at the kennels, but when the dachsund Bonnie is lost it is Prince to the rescue.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
The Story of Moses (1959)
The story of the Hebrew baby who goes from bullrushes to prince of Egypt, to fugitive murderer to chosen leader of the Jewish people in their exodus from Egypt.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Tenement Tree (1959)
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Titus in Trouble (1959)
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Trick or Treat (1959)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Trovato (1959)
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
The Voyage of the Javelin (1959)
In 1854 Bob Wingate signs on as ship’s boy on the extreme clipper Javelin for a voyage to San Francisco ’round the Horn, then on to China and the annual tea race to London Docks.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
When My Ship Comes Home: A Novel (1959)
Jacket by Ardizzone. Vincent returns to his East Coast island home when his life in London crashes about his ears.
Author(s):
Chris Massie
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Wild Pony Island (1959)
When Rick Landon comes to the attention of the law. his mother decides to move the family back to her home town - Ocracoke Island.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
The Bells of Rye (1960)
French marauders steal the church bells from Rye. John Finch and his friend Mark Cundy are determined to bring them back again.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hubbard