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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1907)

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The adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf- and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s): Harold Heartt

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Anne’s Terrible Good Nature (1908)

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A collection of short stories. Only the endpapers and cover are by F. D. Bedford. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Arthur H. Buckland

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The Enchanted Castle (1908)

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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 Hathitrust.... View More

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

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The House of Arden (1908)

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Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

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

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The Princess and Curdie (1908)

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In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie and his beasts restore Irene’s King-Papa to his throne. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

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The Ruby of Kishmoor (1908)

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Jonathan Rugg is set on a quest to recover the famous gem, looted by a pirate from an eastern queen. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Runaways and Castaways (1908)

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A selection of stories of adventure from well known authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Anonymous
F. Anstey
Charles Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Bret Harte
Charles Kingsley
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)

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This Volume II from Reilly & Lee's 'The Children's Own Books' series includes Little Black Sambo and The Story of Topsy. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Boy Life (1909)

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Stories selected from A Boy's Town and The Flight of Pony Baker. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Harding’s Luck (1909)

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Dickie is a lame child living in a slum, but in the past he is an Arden of noble birth and wealth. Cousin to Edred and Elfida of The House of Arden, he proves to be the true heir to the family titles. When the family treasure is discovered he returns... View More

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

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John of the Woods (1909)

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A young orphan escapes from the strolling tumblers who have abused him and finds refuge with a hermit in the forest. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Abbie Farwell Brown
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Mike: A Public School Story (1909)

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Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his poor marks. It is ... View More

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

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The Prodigious Hickey (1909)

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The first of the boarding school stories set at Lawrenceville in the era after the end of caning, when “between masters and students there was an armed and exceedingly wary neutrality.” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston
Henry Raleigh
Frederic Dorr Steele

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The Seven Ages of Childhood (1909)

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’First the Infant in its Mother’s Arms’ … to the ‘Last Scene of All’ illustrations to verses by Carolyn Wells. First appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Carolyn Wells
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England (1909)

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While everyone is on August holiday, England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his Boy Scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Rema... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): C. Harrison

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A Book of Discoveries (1910)

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Mac and Robin spend the summer holidays mainly messing about in boats. READ NOW.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Gordon Browne

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Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook (1910)

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The ‘Original” edition of the Boy Scouts of America Handbook was written by E. T. Seton, using some of the material from R. Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. Read for free online at the E. T. Seton Institute.... View More

Author(s): Robert Baden-Powell
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Robert Baden-Powell

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The Farm Book: Bob and Betty Visit Uncle John (1910)

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Two children spend from plow time to first snow on a farm when everything was still done by hand and horse. Read online at BPL.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Humming Bird (1910)

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A collection of stories, mainly about baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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Lost Endeavour (1910)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. The frontispiece was used as the dust jacket illustration. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Stephen Reid

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