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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Penrod and Sam (1916)

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Further adventures of Penrod Schofield and his friend Sam Williams, culminating in the dance party at Amy Rennsdale’s -- “Must ‘a’ got your bumpus!” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Worth Brehm

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Rinkitink in Oz (1916)

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When the pearl pirates capture the people of Pingaree, it is up to the King of neighboring Rinkitink, his talking goat, Bilbil, and the young prince Inga of Pingaree to rescue them. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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Uneasy Money (1916)

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Bill Dawlish is grateful to the eccentric American millionaire who leaves him his fortune, but does not want to disinherit his bee-keeping niece and goes to America to meet her. The British edition was cut considerably. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Clarence F. Underwood

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Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)

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Anne and Gilbert start their new life together. This fifth book in the series moves into more adult themes and will be of little interest to children. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

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Dominie Dean (1917)

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A humorous novel set in Muscatine. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Victor Pérard

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The Ford (1917)

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A novel of California touching on water rights. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

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

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The Gingerbread Man (1917)

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This title is a reprinting of the first few chapters of John Dough and the Cherub, with a new ending. The first edition was part of Baum's Snuggle Tales and had a color frontis piece. The later edition in the Oz-Man Tales series had four color illust... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright
John R. Neill
Et al

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Jack Pumpkinhead (1917)

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This "Snuggle Tale" is a separate reprinting of the first few chapters of The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Julia Dyar Hardy
John R. Neill
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Lost Endeavour (1917)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

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Ozma is missing, and with her, all the magic treasures of Oz. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

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Piccadilly Jim (1917)

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Jimmy Crocker’s father has married into money and he gets too large an allowance for his own good. Fortunately Ann Chester arrives from America and takes him in hand. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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The Preacher of Cedar Mountain (1917)

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A novel of horse racing and Methodism. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Clarence Rowe

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Robin Hood (1917)

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The legends of Robin Hood are recounted by Paul Creswick. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Paul Creswick
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Three Black Pennies (1917)

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A novel about three generations of a family of iron founders. Dust jacket attributed to Dorothy P. Lathrop.

Author(s): Joseph Hergesheimer
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Uneasy Money (1917)

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Bill Dawlish is grateful to the eccentric American millionaire who leaves him his fortune, but does not want to disinherit his bee-keeping niece and goes to America to meet her. The British edition was cut considerably. Read online at archive.org.&nb... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Clarence F. Underwood
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Hans Brinker: or The Silver Skates (1918)

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Hans and Gretel hope to win the prize in the skating races so they can help their mother with the household expenses and find a doctor to cure their father. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright

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The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)

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The old aristocracy of a Midwestern town finds itself displaced by the new manufacturing money. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Arthur William Brown

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The Mysterious Island (1918)

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During the American Civil War five prisoners of war and a dog escape from Richmond in a balloon and are driven across the country by a fierce storm and wrecked on a desert island in the Pacific. They proceed to make a home for themselves with all the... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Piccadilly Jim (1918)

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Jimmy Crocker’s father has married into money and he gets too large an allowance for his own good. Fortunately Ann Chester arrives from America and takes him in hand. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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The Sandman’s Forest: A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons (1918)

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On his fifth birthday Giddy receives a pearl handled knife and a compass - and takes a flight on the Superstork to the Sandman’s forest. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Louis Dodge
Illustrator(s): Paul Bransom

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