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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Boss Chombale (1957)

Peter accompanies his father to northern Rhodesia and is determined to become an old Africa hand. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Margaret Carson Hubbard
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

The Boy Down Kitchener Street (1957)

Dust jacket by Ardizzone. A moving picture of childhood.

Author(s): Leslie Paul
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Butler Did It (1957)

When the ex-butler Keggs informs one of the two remaining competitors for the payout of a ‘last son to be married’ tontine of its existence matters begin to get complicated in a hurry.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Dick Dodge

Detectives and Togas (1957)

Seven Roman schoolboys help uncover a dangerous criminal in ancient Rome.

Author(s): Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s): Charlotte Kleinert

Everglades Adventure (1957)

Toby Morgan and his family move to Florida after the Civil War and he becomes a swamp rat and discovers a reclusive Indian tribe.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

Falconer’s Lure (1957)

The Marlows inherit Trennels Old Farm and move to the country where they spend the summer holidays.

Author(s): Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s): Tasha Kallin

French Leave (1957)

The adventures of three American women vacationing in France

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Rudolf Michael Sachs

The Garden Under the Sea (1957)

Oscar Lobster and his friends are tired of the humans stealing rocks and shells and decide turn-about is fair play.

Author(s): George Selden
Illustrator(s): Garry MacKenzie

The Great Wheel (1957)

Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cl... View More

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

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1958

Greenwillow (1957)

A pastoral romance, in which the hero has vowed to never marry that he may end a family curse. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Beatrice Joy Chute
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Honest Dollar (1957)

Janie and her family live on a small island twenty miles off the coast of Maine. She wants to go lobstering, but that is no job for a girl.

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

Houseboat Girl (1957)

Patsy spends the summer on a houseboat on the Mississippi River.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

King Oberon’s Forest (1957)

The three dwarf brothers take in a fairy baby and their life is never the same again. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Last of the Mohicans (1957)

In this second volume in the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook as they rescue two young British women.

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Magic by the Lake (1957)

On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers. Read online at archive.o... View More

Author(s): Edward Eager
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

Men of the Hills (1957)

The story of the first invasion of Britain during the bronze age.

Author(s): Henry Treece
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

Our Mutual Friend (1957)

The Australian heir to a junk king’s fortune goes missing.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

Pippi in the South Seas (1957)

Pippi’s father, the cannibal king, comes to visit and she in turn takes Tommy and Annika on a visit to his south sea island.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Louis S. Glanzman

Pippi in the South Seas (1957)

Pippi’s father, the cannibal king, comes to visit and she in turn takes Tommy and Annika on a visit to his south sea island.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Richard Kennedy

The Railway Children (1957)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Lynton Lamb

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