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Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
Lucia Wilmot (1959)
Lucia is sixteen and suffers from tuberculous peritonitis. She has just received an offer of marriage from a veteran of the Spanish civil war and is thoroughly mixed up.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
None
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
A Matter of Pride (1959)
When the new teacher scolds Janie for not wearing shoes to school, she is too proud to admit her father is too poor to buy her new shoes.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
The Merry Muse (1959)
Max Arbuthnot becomes mixed up with an unpublished manuscript by Robert Burns.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Mill Creek Irregulars: Special Detectives (1959)
Steve and Sim look into the strange goings on at a neighboring farm and spend their first night in jail.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Everett Raymond Kinstler
My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.
Author(s):
Jean Craighead George
Illustrator(s):
Jean Craighead George
Perilous Pilgrimage (1959)
Like most of their companions who survived the journey, Geoffrey de Villacours and his sister Alys are sold into slavery in Egypt.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Rescuers: A Fantasy (1959)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Ride Into Danger (1959)
A tale of knights and squires during the reign of Edward III of England.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The River at Green Knowe (1959)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1959)
The Tin Woodman visits his old stamping grounds with his friend the Scarecrow to see what became of his former fiancee Nimmie Amee. This edition has new illustrations despite the dust jacket copy.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Dale Ulrey
The Vicar of Wakefield (1959)
A mixture of comic novel and Job, this World’s Classics edition #4, has a dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Buffalo and Beaver (1960)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
Castaways in Lilliput (1960)
When Peggy, Jim and Ralph wash up on the shore of a desert island, the last thing they expect to find are inhabitants no larger than a man’s hand.
Author(s):
Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s):
William M. Hutchinson
Don Quixote: Some of His Adventures (1960)
Here are presented some of the most famous adventures of that ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Author(s):
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Friendly Gables (1960)
The Mitchells now have a home of their own, and newborn twin boys.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
How Right You Are, Jeeves (1960)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Robert Shore
Island Mackenzie (1960)
When Mackenzie is washed up on a desert island he is unaware that it is also the refuge of a cat-hating woman.
Author(s):
Ursula Moray Williams
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Kidnappers at Coombe (1960)
Jane and Tim Cooper and their friends the Maitlands are off on a holiday adventure in Devonshire.
Author(s):
Joan Ballantyne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone