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This species has seldom been seen and naturalists have considered putting it on the endangered species list. He is marked by his love of baseball, by having a skill with rural machinery and hunting firearms beyond his years, and his propensity to emit sounds like "gee whiz". The All-American boy usually dwells in a [[Quirky Town]] within which he is as [[Free
There are variants of this trope. The geeky variant still maintains the ingenuity, self-reliance, and wholesomeness of this but applies his interest to such things as home science experiments and the like. The high-school variety wears a letterman's sweater and spends his off hours using his mechanical skill to restore an old car.
An All-American boy often gets a job as a [[Kid Detective]]. If he joins the military when he grows up he will almost inevitably become a [[Southern
The closest [[Distaff Counterpart]] would probably be [[Girl Next Door]].
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* A pair of [[Kid Detective|Kid Detectives]] in ''The Crow and the Castle'' by Keith Robinson.
* [[Tom Sawyer]] and [[Huckleberry Finn]].
* Jeff and the "four horsemen" in ''[[
* Some of [[Robert Heinlein]]'s works are this [[Recycled in Space]].
* Henry Huggins in the ''[[Ramona and Beezus]]'' books by [[Beverly Cleary]].
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