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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Pigeon Post (1936)

The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are prospecting for gold on High Topps, hoping to persuade Captain Flint to stay home as he returns from a South American gold prospecting trip. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome

Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal - 1936

Roller Skates (1936)

Lucinda spends a year on her own in New York city in the 1890’s while her parents travel abroad for her mother’s health.

Author(s): Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s): Valenti Angelo

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1937
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

The Smiths and Rusty (1936)

A family has adventures with its cocker spaniel.

Author(s): Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

Winterbound (1936)

Kay and Garry Ellis spend the winter in an old farm house, and are the better for it.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1937
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

A-Going to the Westward (1937)

A story of pioneers settling in Ohio in the 1810’s.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1937)

Norman Rockwell did the illustrations for this edition of the classic American story of growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Norman Rockwell

Beat to Quarters (1937)

Captain Horatio Hornblower of the Lydia defeats the Spanish Natividad -- twice.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Biography of an Arctic Fox (1937)

The life story of an arctic fox.

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

Bright Island (1937)

The story of Thankful Curtis, her island home, her time at school and her return.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1938
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1937

The Far-Distant Oxus (1937)

A tale of ponies and adventure set on Exmoor. TEST

Green Gravel (1937)

A story of a young girl and her family in an Illinois farm town.

Author(s): Dora Aydelotte
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Happy Return (1937)

Captain Horatio Hornblower in the Lydia defeats the much larger Spanish Natividad, only to have to fight her again. Read at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Rowland Hilder

Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)

When Jane VIctoria Stuart learns her father is alive and living on Prince Edward Island, she is at first reluctant to visit him, but when they meet she knows that she must somehow reconcile her two parents.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Louise Costello

The Little Warrens at Breezy Hollow (1937)

The three Warrens and their friends spend the summer on a farm.

Author(s): Sarah Wheelock
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

Márcos, a Mountain Boy of Mexico (1937)

Marcos sets out to seek his fortune.

Author(s): Melicent Humason Lee
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1937

Miranda is a Princess (1937)

Miranda is a princess of Catalonia. In this fantasy, the Catalonians send the army of Castile packing, thanks to the puppet master Papa ‘Tero.

Author(s): Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Pigeon Post (1937)

The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are prospecting for gold on High Topps, hoping to persuade Captain Flint to stay home as he returns from a South American gold prospecting trip.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome
Mary Shepard

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1937

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

When Edward Tudor changes places with poor Tom Canty, he never recks how difficult it will be to regain his place as Prince of Wales. This is the New Winston Treasure Shelf edition. It is larger-format on better paper, with new endpapers and differen... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Sad-Faced Boy (1937)

Three young boys hop a freight in Alabama to visit their Uncle Jasper Tappin in Harlem.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Arna Bontemps
Illustrator(s): Virginia Lee Burton

Summer Moonshine (1937)

Joe wants to marry Jane and with the success of his play about his nasty stepmother sees his way clear, then the stepmother (a mittel european Princess) has the play pulled and Joe is left looking for a fairy godfather.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Herbert F. Roese

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