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Tilio: A Boy of Papua (1937)

The story of a young boy in Papua New Guinea who is forced into servitude but eventually finds his freedom.

Author(s): Rudolf Vorrhoeve
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

Tommy Thatcher Goes to Sea (1937)

Tommy had always wanted to go to sea on a sailing ship and at last his chance has come.

We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937)

The Swallows are invited to sail in Goblin with Jim Brady. When a fog comes up and the skipper doesn’t return and the rising tide starts the anchor to dragging, suddenly they find themselves outside Harwich Harbor, passing the Beach End buoy an... View More

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

Belinda and the Singing Clock (1938)

Belinda and her father take to the road in a house trailer

Author(s): Ethel Calvert Phillips
Illustrator(s): Virginia Lee Burton

Bound Girl of Cobble Hill (1938)

A story of the early republic where a young orphan is indentured.

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

Children by the Sea (1938)

Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.

Author(s): Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

The Children Who Lived in a Barn (1938)

When their parents don’t return from a trip to Switzerland, the five Dunnet children have to fend for themselves.

Author(s): Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s): J. D. Evans

Clue of the Faded Dress (1938)

When a young woman is accused of theft, her four friends rally 'round to solve this Tennessee mountain mystery.

Author(s): Maristan Chapman
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Bertie is commanded by his good aunt Dahlia to obtain, at all costs, including skulduggery, a silver cow creamer. At the same time he must guide the nuptials of Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett to a successful conclusion. Affairs are further c... View More

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

The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Bertie is commanded by his good aunt Dahlia to obtain, at all costs, including skulduggery, a silver cow creamer. At the same time he must guide the nuptials of Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett to a successful conclusion. Affairs are further c... View More

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

The Cottage at Bantry Bay (1938)

A story about the O’Sullivans, an Irish family with four children, living along the shore of Bantry Bay.

Author(s): Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

Cricket: The Story of a Little Circus Pony (1938)

The story of a little pony who performs in the circus.

Dead Ned (1938)

Condemned to hang for a murder he did not commit, Ned Mansell is revived by his physician friends and smuggled on to a ship bound for Africa.

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

Dead Ned (1938)

Condemned to hang for a murder he did not commit, Ned Mansell is revived by his physician friends and smuggled on to a ship bound for Africa.

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

Escape to Persia (1938)

The Hunterly children bet their aunt they can make their way to the Oxus in twenty-four hours with only thirty shillings. The ponies are glad to see them.

The Four and Lena (1938)

Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938

High Tension (1938)

Unable to find employment as an engineer during the Great Depression, Haines worked nights as an electric lineman on a railroad. That experience was the basis for his first two books, Slim and this book (High Tension). Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): William Wister Haines
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Highway Past Her Door (1938)

When Judy’s grandmother dies, she is thrown on her own resources and decides to go into business for herself.

Author(s): Mary Wolfe Thompson
Illustrator(s): Vera Neville

Jane Eyre (1938)

Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.

Author(s): Charlotte Brontë
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Les Misérables (1938)

A man who cannot escape his past is pursued by an obsessed detective. Published in one, two, and five volume editions.

Author(s): Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

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