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Rainbow Valley

L.M. Montgomery · 240 pages

The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley. Anne's children and the children of the widowed minister, Mr. Meredith, become close friends.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingSelf-Discovery
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The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas

Madeleine L'Engle · 56 pages

Large FamilyChristian FictionMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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The Hiding Place

Trezza Azzopardi · 282 pages

WalesLarge FamilyFemale Lead
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Running Around (And Such)

Linda Byler

A hot-tempered, high-spirited teenaged girl who hates housework, dislikes babies, and loves driving fast horses tries to fit in among the members of her Amish community. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.

Large FamilyChristian FictionHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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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.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingSelf-Discovery
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These Happy Golden Years

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 294 pages

The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wilder begins to seek her company.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Magical Melons: More Stories About Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink · 193 pages

Fourteen tales relating the further adventures of ten-year-old Caddie and her six siblings living on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Midsummer's Mayhem

Rajani LaRocca · 351 pages

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingSelf-Discovery
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Framed

Frank Cottrell Boyce · 316 pages

Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime

WalesMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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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 GradeHeartwarmingRural Farm
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Down to the Bonny Glen

Melissa Wiley · 336 pages

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The Magic Half

Annie Barrows · 211 pages

Miri is the only single child in the middle of a family with two sets of twins--older brothers and younger sisters. When the family moves to an old farmhouse Miri accidentally travels back in time to 1935 only to discover Molly, a girl in need of a real family to call her own. A very satisfying classic-in-the-making, with spine-tingling moments, this is a delightful family-friendly middle grade ti

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingRural Farm
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Mary Jones and Her Bible

Mary Emily Ropes · 160 pages

WalesChristian FictionFemale Lead
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The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm

Patricia MacLachlan · 144 pages

In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingRural Farm
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Ready or Not

Chautona Havig · 404 pages

Large FamilyChristian FictionHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Permanent Rose

Hilary McKay · 241 pages

While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy's father.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Hello, Mallory

Ann M. Martin · 139 pages

Mallory Pike has always wanted to be a member of the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters are so much fun to be around, and so grown-up. Now the club members have invited Mallory to a meeting. This might be her big chance! But the Baby-sitters don't make it easy. First Claudia makes Mal feel like a baby on her first official baby-sitting job. Then they give her a written test - with questions no

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Happy Birthday, Kirsten!: A Springtime Story

Janet Beeler Shaw · 58 pages

On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800's, the hard working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years

Cynthia Rylant · 164 pages

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Movie Shoes

Noel Streatfeild · 274 pages

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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.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingRural Farm
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That Scatterbrain Booky

Bernice Thurman Hunter

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Have Wheels, Will Travel

Anne Mazer · 142 pages

All Abby wants are a pair of purple rollerblades! But she needs to earn the money herself. Its hard work, will Abby be able to reach her goal???

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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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.

Large FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarmingFemale Lead

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