For Boys Ten to Twelve

Adventures of Jimmy Brown, The. By W. L. Alden.

Full of fun and humor. Jimmy plays circus, amuses himself with a monkey, tries to be a pirate, and makes experiments with unexpected (to him) results.

Among the Camps. By Thomas Nelson Page.

Stories of the Civil War. Contents: “A Captured Santa Claus”; “Kittykin”; “Nancy Pansy”; “Jack and Jake.”

Bob’s Cave Boys. By C. P. Burton.

A sequel to “The Boys of Bob’s Hill.”

Bob’s Hill Braves, The. By C. P. Burton.

Tells of a vacation which the boys of Bob’s Hill spend in Illinois, where they play at being Indians, and hear tales of pioneer life.

Boynton Pluck, The. By Helen Ward Banks.

Bob and Billy, sent away for the summer, by mistake get into the hands of a mean old farmer. It takes pluck to stand their hard 36luck, but in the end they are all the better for their experiences.

Boys of Bob’s Hill, The. By C. P. Burton.

A lively story of a party of boys in a New England village.

Cruise of the Canoe Club, The. By William L. Alden.

A sequel to “The Cruise of the ‘Ghost.’” The four boys cruise in canoes from Lake Memphremagog, Vermont, down the Magog, St. Francis, and St. Lawrence Rivers to Quebec.

Cruise of the “Ghost,” The. By William L. Alden.

A sequel to “The Moral Pirates.” The boys, with a young naval cadet, cruise in a twenty-foot catboat through the bays along the south shore of Long Island.

Cuore: An Italian School-Boy’s Journal. By Edmondo de Amicis.

An Italian classic for boys.

Four MacNicols, The. By William Black.

Contains two stories—“The Four MacNicols,” and “An Adventure in Thule.” 37The first tells about four orphan boys who make their living in the Hebrides, the other of an adventure with French coast pirates.

Harding’s Luck. By E. Nesbit (Mrs. Bland).

The adventures of a lame boy who slipped back in the history of England several hundred years.

Jan of the Windmill. By Juliana Horatia Ewing.

The story of a miller’s son who became a distinguished artist.

Jimmy Brown Trying to Find Europe. By W. L. Alden.

The further adventures of Jimmy, who leaves home with the intention of finding his parents, who are in Europe.

John of the Woods. By Abbie Farwell Brown.

The story of a little boy who ran away from some cruel gypsies by whom he had been stolen, and who lived in the forest with a good hermit and all his animal friends, and of how they saved the king’s son.

Mr. Stubbs’s Brother. By James Otis Kaler (James Otis).

A sequel to “Toby Tyler.”

38Moni, the Goat Boy. By Johanna Spyri.

Stories of Swiss mountain life.

Moral Pirates, The. By William L. Alden.

The story of a vacation cruise made by four New York boys twelve to fourteen years of age. They fit out a large rowboat with spritsail and camping outfit, and cruise up the Harlem and Hudson Rivers to Troy, thence by canal to Schroon River and the lakes in the Adirondacks, where they camp for two weeks.

Reform of Shaun, The. By Allen French.

Contains two rattling good dog stories.

Robin Hood: His Book. By Eva March Tappan.

An attractive prose version, well illustrated.

Stories from the Crusades. By Janet H. Kelman.

“Told to the Children” Series. A good collection of simply told stories of the Crusades.

39Ten Boys from History. By Kate D. Sweetser.

The range from which the ten boys of noted courage are selected is from David and Jonathan of the Old Testament to the family of President Lincoln.

Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus. By James Otis Kaler (James Otis).

A wholesome story of circus life. Toby is a great favorite, and Mr. Stubbs, the monkey, a humorous character.

Two Arrows. By William O. Stoddard.

“Two Arrows” was a brave Indian boy who rendered his white friends such good service that they determined to give him the advantage of an education.

Two Little Confederates. By Thomas Nelson Page.

Tells of the adventures of two small boys left on a Virginia plantation during the Civil War.

Two Little Savages. By Ernest Thompson Seton.

Tells about two boys who camped out, living as Indians.

40William Henry and His Friends. By Mrs. A. M. Diaz.

A companion to “The William Henry Letters.”

William Henry Letters, The. By Mrs. A. M. Diaz.

A series of entertaining letters between a small boy at boarding-school and his friends at home.

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