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Junior Literary Guild
The Junior Literary Guild is a commercial book club. It began in 1929 as an enterprise of the Literary Guild. By the 1950s, the majority of their book sales were to public libraries. In 2004 they started listing their Junior Literary Guild selections at their own website. What we refer to as “winners” are their selections for different age groups.
Winners:
Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer (1929)
Early American railroading as seen through the eyes of the Dewitt Clinton, the first steam engine built for the New York Central Railroad.
Read online at archive.org.
Courageous Companions (1929)
The story of an English lad who sails with Magellan around the world.
The Flight of the Heron (1930)
Ewen Cameron is out with the ’45 and encounters a British officer Keith Windham who becomes his best friend.
The Five Children (1930)
An omnibus edition of Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet.
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Witch’s Maiden: A Historical Romance (1930)
Temperance, her parents dead and she only seven years old, is dispossesed by Cromwell’s officers as a Royalist and sent to live with the neighboring witch.
The Adventures of Mario (1930)
Mario, the young hero of the book, helpless after the death of his mother and driven by an inner force as the animals are, grows up in the depths of the forest where he becomes one of the wild things.
Red Horse Hill (1930)
Bud Martin decides to take his bulldog and try New Hampshire. He finds a warm welcome with Uncle John and Aunt Sarah.
Early Moon (1930)
A collection of poems by the Prairie Poet.
Kees (1930)
Kees lives in Holland and has a pet duck named Kleintje.
Alice and Thomas and Jane (1931)
Three children have adventures in an English seaside town.
Laurian Jones
The Fairy Circus (1931)
Inspired by a human circus that performs in their meadow, the fairies put on a circus of their own for the woodland creatures.
Young Trajan (1931)
In this story of old Rumania, Frosina goes to school to learn weaving, but learns much more when she is called home again.
Miska Petersham
Hail Columbia (1931)
A history of the United States of America from its discovery to 1931.
Swallows and Amazons (1931)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Read online at archive.org.
The Gleam in the North (1931)
When the Jacobites call on Ewan Cameron’s honor, he must enter into the conspiracy again in this second installment of the Jacobite Trilogy that began with The Flight of the Heron.
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932)
At age thirteen Young Fu is apprenticed to a coppersmith in the big city of Chungking.
Read online at archive.org.
Swallowdale (1932)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
Swallowdale (1932)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
Auntie (1932)
Celia Jane spends a year with her Auntie, then when she is grown up and has a son of her own Auntie comes to live with her.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes (1932)
It is mother’s birthday but the triplets are short of funds, so they go to work to earn the money for mother’s birthday present.
Read online at archive.org.