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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Little Black Pony Races (1968)
The little black pony gets a chance to show what he can do in a race.
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Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
James Schucker
Lonesome End (1968)
Tod Ross is a sophomore when the coach asks him to go out for the football team.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Ned Butterfield
Maria Poppina ab A ad Z (1968)
Mary Poppins from A to Z in a Latin translation.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Midway (1968)
Mark, the ordinary middle sibling, tries to make himself stand out.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Mike at Wrykyn (1968)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Charles Waterhouse
A Mystery for Mr. Bass: A Mushroom Planet Book (1968)
David and Chuck discover Mycetian fossils along the sea shore, and make an emergency trip to the Mushroom Planet to save Prewytt Brumblydge.
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Shortall
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1968)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Pooh’s Pot O’Honey (1968)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Prince Goes West (1968)
Steve and Sim are joined by Pete in rescuing a kidnapped middle-eastern prince, but the kidnappers are not going to quietly forego their prey.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Charles Waterhouse
Round Trip Space Ship (1968)
Eddie’s friend Marty takes him on a trip to Marty’s home planet of Martinea.
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Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Seven Days (1968)
There are seven Day children, each born on a different day of the week:
"Monday’s child is fair of face …"
This second edition has new illustrations.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Joan Schwartzberg
Sunday Morning (1968)
Two boys get up early on Sunday morning and proceed to make a mess.
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Author(s):
Judith Viorst
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Tim to the Lighthouse (1968)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Upside-Down Willie (1968)
In this adventure Willie joins the circus.
Author(s):
Dorothy Clewes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1969)
This edition of the adventures of the mischevious puppet uses the illustrations from the Italian edition of 1911.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Attilio Mussino
Animal Friends All Year Long (1969)
Two dozen stories and poems about the animals of River Bend.
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Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Black Stallion’s Ghost (1969)
While between races at a Florida horse farm, Alex Ramsay and the Black meet the Ghost and her trainer and are caught up in a supernatural horror story.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
Brave Johnny O’Hare (1969)
Brave Johnny O’Hare is a little Australian boy who is not afraid of anything, even the Bunyip, until one night …
Author(s):
Eleanor B. Heady
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Cape May Packet (1969)
Will Hand signs on to his father’s privateer during the War of 1812.
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Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Robert Frankenberg
The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers (1969)
A memoir of attending kindergarten in a small Southern town.
Author(s):
Max Steele
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad