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Fiction - Novel Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Magician’s Nephew (1994)

Digory’s uncle sends him and his neighbor Polly to the land between the worlds and he comes back with the cruel witch Jadis. In an attempt to get rid of her they all end up in the newborn world of Narnia.

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Moominpappa’s Memoirs (1994)

In this revised version of The Exploits of Moominpappa, Moominpappa regales Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin with the story of his early life. Is it any more accurate? Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

Oliver Twist (1994)

Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Don Freeman

The Railway Children (1994)

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): Shirley Hughes

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1994)

Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.

Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): Helen Mason Grose

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury (1995)

Includes the first four Betsy-Tacy books: Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go over the Big Hill and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury (1995)

Includes the first four Betsy-Tacy books: Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go over the Big Hill and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1995)

Ojo the Unlucky travels to the Emerald City along with the Patchwork Girl and the Glass Cat to free his Unc Nunkie from a magic spell. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

Brian’s Winter (1996)

What might have happened if Brian had not been rescued at the end of the summer, after he survived a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness?

Author(s): Gary Paulsen
Illustrator(s): Neal McPheeters

The Enchanted Island of Yew (1996)

When a fairy takes on the form of a mortal prince for a year, she has many adventures among the people of the Island of Yew.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): George O’Connor

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (1996)

A fictionalized biography about the famous conductress of the Underground Railway as a young girl.

Author(s): Alan Schroeder
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

A Sound of Leaves (1996)

Sylvie and her family spend a week at the beach.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Lenore Blegvad
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Thief (1996)

Gen boasts he can steal anything, and the King’s Magus takes him up on it.

Author(s): Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s): Walter Gaffney-Kessell

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1997

Tik-Tok of Oz (1996)

Betsy Bobbin and Hank the Mule are shipwrecked on the shores of the Nonestic Ocean. They meet the Shaggy Man, discover Tik-Tok the mechanical man and help defeat Queen Ann Soforth and her army of conquest among many other adventures. Read online at H... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

Wet Magic (1996)

When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

The House of Arden (1997)

Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

The Master Key (1997)

When Rob strikes the Master Key, the demon of electricity appears to ply him with wondrous electrical inventions. The scan is from the first edition. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Nick Bruel

The Royal Book of Oz (1997)

In search of his family tree the Scarecrow tumbles down through the earth to the Silver Islands. Is he really the Emperor, Chang Wang Woe? Originally credited to L. Frank Baum, The Royal Book of Oz was actually written by the young Ruth Plumly Thomps... View More

Author(s): Ruth Plumly Thompson
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

The Scarecrow of Oz (1997)

Trot and Cap’n Bill are joined by Button Bright and find their way to the Land of Oz. The first scan is incomplete but does have most of the color illustrations. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust, although their scan lacks the color ... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

The Swallows and the Amazons (1997)

This is a transcription of the original manuscript of Swallows and Amazons along with the original illustrations by Steven Spurrier which, aside from the dust jacket, were not used in the first edition as Ransome objected to them.

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

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