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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Little Fireman (1938)

Follows the adventures of a Big fireman and a Little fireman whose firehouses are right next door to each other. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Esphyr Slobodkina

Sharp Ears, the Baby Whale (1938)

The story of a baby whale.

Author(s): John Yocum Beaty
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1939

Ship of the Line (1938)

Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts.

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

A Ship of the Line (1938)

Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Summer Moonshine (1938)

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. Read online at archive.org.&nb... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): no first name Fenwick

Swallowdale (1938)

The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Swallows and Amazons (1938)

The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’

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

We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)

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
Unknown

Adventure May be Anywhere (1939)

Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.

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

Anne of Ingleside (1939)

In this final volume in the series, Anne is now the mother of five children with another baby on the way.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Charles V. John

The Boy Emigrants (1939)

Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.

Author(s): Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s): Harvey Thomas Dunn

Captain Horatio Hornblower (3 volumes) (1939)

This uniform three volume set includes Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Captain Horatio Hornblower (omnibus) (1939)

This omnibus volume contains the first three adventures of Horatio Hornblower, R.N. Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colors. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Curious Lobster's Island (1939)

Mr. Lobster, Mr. Bear and Mr. Badger embark on a new adventure.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Richard Warren Hatch
Illustrator(s): Marion Freeman Wakeman

An Experiment with St. George (1939)

St George and the Princess Cleodolinda outwit Circe and her minions and trap them beneath a volcanic eruption.

Author(s): J. W. Dunne
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Flying Colours (1939)

While on his way under guard from Spain to Paris to be tried by Napoleon, Hornblower makes his escape and joins the resistance. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Flying Colours (1939)

While on his way under guard from Spain to Paris to be tried by Napoleon, Hornblower makes his escape and joins the resistance.

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

Flying Colours including Ship of the Line (1939)

While on his way under guard from Spain to Paris to be tried by Napoleon, Hornblower makes his escape and joins the resistance. This special book club edition includes Ship of the Line as well.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): None

Francie on the Run (1939)

Bored while recuperating from an operation in the hospital, Francie decides to leave and walk home.

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

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

After the boom times of World War I and the roaring twenties, the farm population was not ready for the hard times of the 1930’s. And many in the Oklahoma dust bowl picked up and made for the promised land of California.

Author(s): John Steinbeck
Illustrator(s): Elmer Hader

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