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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

Five Children and It (1902)

Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results. Download our free ebook: EPUB. This is for ebook readers. Click the button, and the ePub file will go to your default ... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar
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The Flight of Pony Baker (1902)

Pony decides nobody understands him at home and decides to run away, but can’t seem to quite carry it off. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): William Dean Howells
Illustrator(s): Florence Scovel Shinn

Indian Boyhood (1902)

Born a Souix Indian, the author describes his first fifteen years of traditional upbringing. In later life he became a physician and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Read online at archive.org.... View More

More Tales of the Stumps (1902)

A collection of cricket tales.

Author(s): Horace Bleackley
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
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The Pothunters (1902)

The sports trophies are missing from the pavilion and Jim Thomson is under suspicion since he did hurl a rock through the window preparatory to his own burglary, which was aimed soley at recovering his notes for an examination scheduled for the next ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

There were two bindings for the first edition of this classic story of a bad little bunny. Later printings had fewer illustrations. Read online at wikisource. Or at Gutenberg. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

Brains and Bravery (1903)

A collection of fourteen tales of young men exhibiting brains and bravery. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): G. A. Henty
L. T. Meade
Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Grey House on the Hill (1903)

A young boy is falsely accused of theft and banished to the work house by an unforgiving master.

Author(s): The Hon. Mrs. Greene
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

A Prefect’s Uncle (1903)

When Alan Gethryn’s uncle joins his house as a junior, embarrassing situations arise for the head of Leicester’s house. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock

Tales of St. Austin’s (1903)

A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Tales of St. Austin’s (1903)

A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s. Read online at archive.org.

The Admirable Tinker (1904)

Disowned by his stepmother Sir Tancred and his son, Tinker, live by their wits. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Margaret Eckerson

Boys of St. Timothy’s (1904)

A classic story of school boys.

Author(s): Arthur Stanwood Pier
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Dot and Tot of Merryland (1904)

Dot and Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

Freckles (1904)

A one handed orphan takes on the job of protecting the valuable trees in the Limberlost from timber pirates.

Author(s): Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator(s): E. Stetson Crawford

The Golden Age (1904)

For this edition, the original plates were rephotographed and reproduced by photogravure, a much better process than halftone. Again there were numerous binding variants, similar to the first Parrish illustrated edition. Read for free online at Hathi... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

New Treasure Seekers, or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1904)

Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne

The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)

The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.

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

The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)

The five children who discovered It find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace. Read online at gutenberg.org.... View More

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

Play the Game! (1904)

A British boys’ school story.

Author(s): Harold Avery
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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