The Dangerous Dozen

Twelve masculine books (two written by women) that the Cultural Authorities don't want your boy to read.

A western story, a little known series of war books, a book about growing up on a farm in early America, a shipwreck story, a pirate story, a book about a boy training to be a knight, a book about growing up along the Mississippi River in 19th century America, an avenger story, a survival story, a dog story, a story about growing up in Africa, a jungle story.

• Shane, by Jack Shaeffer;

• The Military Lives of ... series, by Trevor Dupuy

• Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry

• Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson;

• Men of Iron, by Howard Pyle

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

• The Mark of Zorro, by Johnston McCulley;

• Down the Long Hills, by Louis L’Amour

• Lassie Come Home, by Eric Knight

• West with the Night, by Beryl Markham

• The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling