Paul Hutchens (April 7, 1902, Thorntown, Indiana – January 23, 1977, Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an American author. In addition to writing The Sugar Creek Gang, a series of 36 Christian-themed juvenile fiction books about the adventures of a group of young boys, he also wrote numerous adult fiction books, many with a romance theme.[1][2] The author was a graduate of Moody Bible Institute. The Sugar Creek Gang books have been popular in evangelical Christian homes and have remained in print through multiple format and cover art changes.[3] The books have also been dramatized on the radio, and in 2004, the stories were made into a series of movies, directed by Joy Chapman and Owen Smith.[4] His books were originally published by Wm. B. Eerdmans, and later reprinted by other publishers such as Van Kampen Press and Moody Press.

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  • Romance of Fire (1934)
  • This Way Out
  • A Song Forever (1936)
  • The Last First (1936)
  • The Voice (1937)
  • This Is Life
  • Mastering Marcus (1938)
  • Yesterday's Rain (1938)
  • Shafted Sunlight
  • Windblown (1942)
  • Blaze Start
  • The Vision (1942)
  • Cup of Cold Water
  • Eclipse
  • When God Says No
  • Morning Flight (1944)
  • A Song Forever (1945)
  • How to Meet Your Troubles
  • Uninterrupted Sky (1949)
  • Morning Light (1952)
  • Cup of Cold Water (1952)
  • The Mystery of the Marsh (1956)
  • Yours for Four Years (1954)
  • East of the Shadow
  • My Life and I (autobiography) (1962)

The Sugar Creek Gang series edit

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  • Battle of the Bees
  • Blue Cow
  • Brown Box Mystery
  • Bull Fighter
  • Cemetery Vandals
  • Chicago Adventure
  • Colorado Kidnapping
  • Ghost Dog
  • Green Tent Mystery
  • Haunted House
  • Indian Cemetery
  • Killer Bear
  • Killer Cat
  • Locked in the Attic
  • Lost Camper
  • Lost in the Blizzard
  • Mystery Cave
  • Mystery Thief
  • On the Mexican Border
  • One Stormy Day
  • Palm Tree Manhunt
  • Runaway Rescue
  • Screams in the Night
  • Secret Hideout
  • Swamp Robber
  • Teacher Trouble
  • Thousand Dollar Fish
  • Timber Wolf
  • Trapline Thief
  • Treasure Hunt
  • Tree House Mystery
  • Watermelon Mystery
  • Western Adventure
  • White Boat Rescue
  • Winter Rescue

Jeanie series edit

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  • It All Began With Jeanie
  • The Trouble With Jeanie
  • Terror On The Mountain

References edit

  1. ^ "Hutchens, Paul 1902-". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  2. ^ Commire, Anne (1983). Something about the author, Volume 31. Gale Research. pp. 94, 98–99. ISBN 9780810300576. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  3. ^ Cohen, Charles L.; Boyer, Paul S. (2008-05-29). Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-22573-5.
  4. ^ id=rKvLEC_pElIC&pg=PA43&dq=hutchens+%22sugar+creek+gang%22&hl=en&ei=eHozTMWkMMP7nAfRpf3iAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=hutchens%20%22sugar%20creek%20gang%22&f=false Young, Hal and Young, Melanie, "Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys," Great Waters Press , 2010. ISBN 9780984144303. Retrieved July 6, 2010
  5. ^ *Adventures in an Indian Cemetery (1947) Sugar Creek Gang the Indian Cemetery (Moody Press Edition (1967))
  6. ^ http://www.sugarcreekgang.info/jeanie.jpg[bare URL image file]

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