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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAll-of-a-Kind Family
Sydney Taylor · 189 pages
The life of a Jewish family with seven children growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century is the subject of this series. It includes All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, and others.
Mountain Top Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner · 128 pages
The Alden children start out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer mountain climbing in New England. A dangerous rock
The Four-Story Mistake
Elizabeth Enright · 177 pages
The Melendy family leave their New York brownstone and move to the country. The house is quirky with lots of odd additions including the fourth floor, the mistake. The family adjusts to their new home with both small and big adventures.
The Children of Willow Farm
Enid Blyton · 184 pages
Willow Farm is an amazing place - as four city children find out! Sheila looks after the fat brown hens, and helps in the dairy. Penny has her mischievous lamb - which even follows her to school! Rory and Benjy learn how to make haystacks, milk the cows, look after the pigs and horses - and even to shear the sheep! Farming may be hard work, but it's always exciting. And the best times of all ar
Wayside School Is Falling Down
Louis Sachar · 179 pages
"Watch Closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window. The children watched it fall thirty floors and smash against the sidewalk. "See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity! I've been trying to teach you about gravity, but the computer showed you a lot quicker!" That's the way things happen a
The Golden Road
L.M. Montgomery · 236 pages
Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town of Carlisle.
Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson · 127 pages
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers
Schooled
Gordon Korman · 208 pages
Thirteen year old Anderson has never watched t.v., or never had pizza or even heard of a wedgie. The only thing he has ever done is been home schooled by his hippie grand mother, Rain. When she broke her hip after she fell out of a tree picking plums, he is forced to stay in a foster home. Will this be his only chance to try to stop from going to a real school? Or will his bananas go rotton?
Drama
Raina Telgemeier · 240 pages
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the cre
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
Jeanne Birdsall · 307 pages
The Penderwicks are splitting up, for the first time in their lives; Daddy and Iantha are taking Ben on their honeymoon to England, and Rosalind is off to New Jersey with Anna, leaving Aunt Claire and Skye to navigate the rest of the family through a marvelously chaotic, occasionally tragic, but still hysterical vacation at Point Mouette.
Owls in the Family
Farley Mowat · 103 pages
Describes the many adventures of a family that adopts two owls.
Pinky Pye
Eleanor Estes · 258 pages
While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.
Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows & Amazons
Arthur Ransome · 352 pages
Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott · 288 pages
This sequel to Alcott's "Little Women" and "Little Men" chronicles the return of the classmates of Plumfield, Jo's school for boys. Readers reencounter Nat, the orphaned street musician, now a conservatory student; restless Dan, back from the gold mines of California; business-minded Tom; and other old friends.
Prince Caspian (full color)
C. S. Lewis · 244 pages
The four Pevensies help Capsian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis · 768 pages
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battle between good and evil - what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, written in 1919 by C.S. Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia. For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of
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.
Onion John
Joseph Krumgold · 248 pages
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin · 337 pages
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
The Enchanted Castle
E. Nesbit · 186 pages
E. Nesbit's classic story of how Gerald, Cathy and Jimmy find an enchanted garden and awake a princess from a hundred-year sleep, only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. Her rescue is difficult, funny and sometimes frightening.
Stuart Little
E.B. White · 131 pages
This is the first children's book by the distinguished author E. B. White. Stuart Little, the hero, is a mouse in the family of Frederick C. Little and is a pleasantly debonair little character, with a shy, engaging manner and a somewhat philosophical turn of mind. He is a great help around the house, and everybody except Snowbell the cat likes him a great deal. In spite of his small size, Stuart
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.
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages