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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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Robinson Crusoe (1909)

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The first of the desert island castaway adventures. Read online at archive.org.

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

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Susanna and Sue (1909)

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Susanna leaves her neglectful husband to stay with the Shakers, and manages to shake him up. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): Alice Barber Stephens
N. C. Wyeth

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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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The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking (1909)

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On Christmas morning Mrs. Gratz wakes to find her hen house robbed of nine hens and a rooster - but the robber has left behind his purse containing nine hundred dollars. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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Undine (1909)

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The story of a knight who marries a water sprite, adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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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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The Emerald City of Oz (1910)

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Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have joined Dorothy in Oz. While they are enjoying a tour of their new home, the evil Nome King is tunneling under the Deadly Desert in his scheme to conquer the Emerald City. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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Feats on the Fjord and Merdhin (1910)

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Two novels of adventure: the first set in Norway; the second dealing with King Canute. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Harriet Martineau
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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A Gentleman of Leisure (1910)

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A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true lo... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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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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The Intrusion of Jimmy (1910)

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A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true lo... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

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Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)

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Kilmeny cannot speak until Eric is threatened by her jealous foster brother. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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Last of the Mohicans (1910)

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In this second volume in the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook as they rescue two young British women. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Last of the Mohicans (1910)

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This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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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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Martin Hyde the Duke’s Messenger (1910)

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Martin Hyde gets caught up in the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): T. C. Dugdale

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Mike: A Public School Story (1910)

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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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