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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

Poems of Childhood (1904)

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A collection of poems including ‘Wynken, Blynken and Nod,’ and ‘The Duel.’ Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Eugene Field
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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The Head of Kay’s (1905)

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Having been appointed head boy of Kay’s house against his will, Kennedy soon finds that it is something like taking over the running of Hades while Mephistopheles sat back and watched. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)

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A collection of short stories, four of which concern the Bastable children. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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The Railway Children (1905)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Book of Gilly: Four Months Out of a Life (1906)

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A nine year old boy is sent to Ireland when his parents go out to India. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Emily Lawless
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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The Incubator Baby (1906)

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Baby Marjorie triumphs over the committee and her scientific upbringing. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)

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First separate printing of Peter’s first appearance in The Little White Bird. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Prairie-Dog Town (1906)

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Twinkle and Chubbins pay a visit to a prairie-dog town.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

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Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read for free online at Internet Archive or at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

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Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

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The Railway Children (1906)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Story of the Amulet (1906)

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The five children re-encounter the Psammead—the “It” in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children’s other discovery, the Amulet. R... View More

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

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Sugar-Loaf Mountain (1906)

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Twinkle and Chubbins explore the interior of Sugar-Loaf Mountain and meet the sugar people in their sugar city. Read online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Laura Bancroft
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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Tales of a Fairy Court (1906)

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Further adventures of Prince Prigio.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): A. A. Dixon

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Tinker Two: The Further Adventures of the Admirable Tinker (1906)

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The Admirable Tinker, along with his adoptive sister Elsie and the Laddy Noggs, Peeress has further surprising adventures. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): None

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The Confessions of a Daddy (1907)

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A hymn to fatherhood, and motherhood. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

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The Enchanted Castle (1907)

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Jerry and Jimmy and Kathleen (who was never called that, but often simply Cat) are playing in the woods when they come on the castle and are soon caught in the toils of the magic. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Luck of Chervil (1907)

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A tale of the Wars of the Roses.

Author(s): H. Elrington
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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The Peter Pan Picture Book (1907)

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This is the first book of the play of Peter Pan.

Author(s): Daniel O’Connor
Illustrator(s): Alice Bolingbroke Woodward

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The White Feather (1907)

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Sheen funks it when faced with fighting a townee and Wrykyn shuns him. He takes tuition and wins his class at Aldershot. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): William Townend

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