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Books in the American genre:

Davy and His Dog (1957)

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A very ordinary day for Davy and his dog.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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Dear Garbage Man (1957)

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The new man on the garbage crew wants to recycle all the useful stuff they collect.

Author(s): Gene Zion
Illustrator(s): Margaret Bloy Graham

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Ding Dong Bell, Pussy’s In the Well (1957)

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Tiger finds a home, and a fortune.

Author(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

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Elisabeth and the Marsh Mystery (1957)

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Elisabeth and her friends are determined to find out what is making a mysterious noise in the neighboring marsh. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Felice Holman
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

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Eloise in Paris (1957)

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Eloise invades the city of light.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

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Everglades Adventure (1957)

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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

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Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans (1957)

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Foreign spies are falling all over themselves trying to steal the plans to Uncle Ben’s flying saucer. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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The Garden Under the Sea (1957)

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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

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The Giant Golden Book of Dogs, Cats and Horses (1957)

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Sixty-one stories and poems about dogs, cats and horses.

Author(s): Kate Barnes
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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Gone-Away Lake (1957)

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Portia and her cousin Julian discover an abandoned summer colony on the shores of a gone-away lake. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush
Joe Krush

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1958
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The Great Wheel (1957)

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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
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Greenwillow (1957)

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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

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Harold’s Trip to the Sky (1957)

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Harold wanders off into the sky with the aid of his trusty purple crayon.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

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Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)

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A woman with a magic way of curing children’s bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

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The Honest Dollar (1957)

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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

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Houseboat Girl (1957)

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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

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The Last of the Mohicans (1957)

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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

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The Late Spring (1957)

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A robin returning from Florida, finds he has arrived before spring.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Jean Fritz
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

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Magic by the Lake (1957)

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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

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Melvin the Moose Child (1957)

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Melvin the moose child sets out for the North Woods to find another moose child to play with. Along the way he meets a beaver child, a deer child and a bear child. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

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