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Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott · 216 pages

Rose, a shy orphan, blossoms in the company of her spirited relatives when she takes up residence at "The Aunt Hill." This captivating novel by the author of Little Women offers readers of all ages endearing, inspiring stories about growing up, making friends, and facing life with kindness and courage.

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Little House in Brookfield

Maria D. Wilkes · 298 pages

Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls's mother. Little House in Brookfield is the first in an ongoing series about the adventures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family. It's 1845 in the bustling frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Five-year-old Caroline lives in a frame house at the edge of town with her mother, her grandmother, and her fi

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingSeries Starter
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The Lotterys Plus One

Emma Donoghue · 320 pages

Sumac Lottery is nine years old and the self-proclaimed "good girl" of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children both adopted and biological, and a menagerie of pets, all living and learning together in a sprawling house called Camelottery.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingSeries Starter
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The Lighthouse Mystery

Gertrude Chandler Warner · 128 pages

The Alden Children spend the Summer in a mysterious lighthouse, where a strange woman walks the beach, and a young man named, Larry, makes weird food out of seaweed!

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A Family Apart

Joan Lowery Nixon · 162 pages

When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

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What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge · 204 pages

Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.

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The Moffats

Eleanor Estes · 242 pages

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut

Large FamilyHeartwarmingMiddle GradeSeries Starter
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Anna Hibiscus

Atinuke · 109 pages

Anna Hibiscus, who lives in Africa with her whole family, loves to splash in the sea and have parties for her aunties, but Anna would love to see snow.

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On the Banks of Plum Creek

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 338 pages

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Large FamilyHeartwarmingMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Bounce

Natasha Friend · 192 pages

Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.

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Our Only May Amelia

Jennifer L. Holm · 272 pages

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Three Times Lucky

Sheila Turnage · 312 pages

Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

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Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

Natsuki Takaya · 196 pages

Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal!

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That Scatterbrain Booky

Bernice Thurman Hunter

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The Best School Year Ever

Barbara Robinson · 117 pages

The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year.

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Counting by 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan · 380 pages

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Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

L.M. Montgomery, Jane Austen, Jack London · 1,408 pages

Includes: • Anne of Green Gables • Anne of Avonlea • Anne of the Island • Anne's House of Dreams • Rainbow Valley • Rilla of Ingleside.

OrphansHeartwarmingMiddle GradeSeries Starter
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The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher

Dana Alison Levy · 274 pages

Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, Kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor. This story relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, kindergarten through sixth grade, and

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The Wedding Planner's Daughter

Coleen Murtagh Paratore · 200 pages

Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.

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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

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Saffy's Angel

Hilary McKay · 215 pages

After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same again. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it and stows away to Siena with her new friend.

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Thirteenth Child

Patricia C. Wrede · 352 pages

Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beast

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All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown

Sydney Taylor · 187 pages

The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.

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Way Down Deep

Ruth White · 197 pages

In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel

OrphansMiddle GradeHeartwarmingSeries Starter
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