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Books in the American genre:

The Fox Third Reader (1919)

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An elementary school reader with the stories set out as plays or dialogues. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Florence Cornelia Fox
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Goat-Feathers (1919)

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Our popular author urges us to give up collecting goat -feathers, distractions from our real calling. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): no first name Dennis

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History Stories for Primary Grades (1919)

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An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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History Stories for Primary Grades: Ohio Edition (1919)

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An elementary school reader. This edition includes the Ohio supplement.  The scan is only of the basic reader. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Last of the Mohicans (1919)

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This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales series, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The Magic of Oz (1919)

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The Magic of Oz relates the unsuccessful attempt of the Munchkin boy Kiki Aru and the former Nome King Ruggedo to conquer Oz. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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My Man Jeeves (1919)

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A collection of short stories, four about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Some of the others were later re-written as Bertie and Jeeves stories. These all first appeared in The Strand, some were published in The Saturday Evening Post. Not published in Ame... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Their Mutual Child (1919)

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The story of Ruth and Kirk and their offspring Bill and how they overcame riches and a particularly poisonous busybody Aunt to find happiness. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Adventures of Fleet Foot and her Fawns (1920)

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Despite its cover some editions of this volume include both Mammy Cottontail Uses Her Wits and The Adventures of Fleet Foot and her Fawns, a nature book about deer. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Allen Chaffee
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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The Coming of Bill (1920)

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The story of Ruth and Kirk and their offspring Bill and how they overcame riches and a particularly poisonous busybody Aunt to find happiness. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Courtship of Miles Standish (1920)

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Longfellow’s account of the rivalry of Miles Standish and John Alden for the hand of the fair Priscilla. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Dot and Tot of Merryland (1920)

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Dot and her neighbor Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a new fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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The Gingerbread Man (1920)

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This title is a reprinting of the first few chapters of John Dough and the Cherub, with a new ending. The first edition was part of Baum's Snuggle Tales and had a color frontis piece. This later edition in the Oz-Man Tales series has four color illus... View More

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

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Glinda of Oz (1920)

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Princess Ozma and Dorothy travel to an obscure corner of the Land of Oz, in order to prevent a war between the Skeezers and the Flatheads and find themselves imprisoned on the Skeezers’ glass-covered island, which has been magically submerged t... View More

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

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History Stories for Primary Grades: Indiana Edition (1920)

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An elementary school reader with stories bases on American history. Contains a supplement based on Indiana history. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Walter Wayland
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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How it Feels to Be Fifty (1920)

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"The great expectations are not all on the younger side of fifty. But the great satisfactions are nearly all on the onward side of it." Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): None

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Hunting and Hiding (1920)

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This illustration appeared in the November 1920 issue of The Designer and The Woman's Magazine. It is available online at freelibrary.

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

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I Wish I Had Not Been a Well-Frog (1920)

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An article reprinted from the American magazine on the dangers of slipping back when you try to get ahead. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Jack Pumpkinhead (1920)

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This "Oz-Man Tale" is the second reprinting of the first few chapters of The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Julia Dyar Hardy
John R. Neill
Et al

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A Little Boy Lost (1920)

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A small boy wanders off into the jungle and has many adventures. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): William Henry Hudson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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