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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Gerrit and the Organ (1943)

Gerrit decides to help the cranky old organ grinder in this Dutch tale.

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

Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young (1943)

When Johnny’s hand injury prevents him working as a silversmith’s apprentice, he joins the American rebels as a messenger. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1944

Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1943)

The two first volumes of the Mary Poppins stories in one. In this edition some of the illustrations are in color.

Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

Mountain Born (1943)

Peter learns to be a shepherd under the tutelage of Old Benj.

Author(s): Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s): Nora S. Unwin

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1944

The Open Gate (1943)

When Mr. Preston makes a bid on a farm, he doesn’t know what he is getting into, but his family is happy he did.

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1943

Out of the Silent Planet (1943)

While on a walking tour Professor Ransom is shanghaied on an interplanetary voyage to Mars where he learns that his conception of the how the world is organized is very far from the truth. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)

Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab, and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome
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The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)

Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.

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

The Ship (1943)

Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): A. E. Barlow

The Ship (1943)

Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Tom Lea

The Storks Fly Home (1943)

The storks fly south as the Germans conquer Holland in the spring of 1940.

Author(s): Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

They Came from France (1943)

Pierre settles his mother and siblings in New Orleans while his father continues to the California gold fields.

Author(s): Clara Ingram Judson
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1943

The White Company (1943)

A troop of English mercenaries during the hundred year’s war follow Sir Nigel to Spain.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

A Bee in Her Bonnet (1944)

A young girl living on a farm in Nebraska takes up apiculture.

Author(s): Eva M. Kristoffersen
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

Boat Children of Canton (1944)

A brother and sister displaced by the war in China go in search of their family. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Marion B. Ward
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

Down the Big River (1944)

Tom Lockwood and his parents are travelling down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

The Flags of Dawn (1944)

A story of a Welsh priest, a doctor (a Welshwoman), a Frenchman and the doings at Runnymede, despite King John.

Author(s): Esther Melbourne Knox
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson

The New Wizard of Oz (1944)

This edition contains a new set of illustrations. The dust jacket is from a later issue, not in Bienvenue.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Evelyn Copelman

Perelandra: A Novel (1944)

Professor Ransom is summoned to Venus where he witnesses - and takes part in - a re-enactment of the temptation in the Garden of Eden. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Pierre Keeps Watch (1944)

A shepherd boy hides the village flocks from marauding Nazis.

Author(s): Maria Gleit
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

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