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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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.
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.
Lad: A Dog
Albert Payson Terhune · 70 pages
Whisked away from his country estate to compete in a dog show in New York City, Lad is confused and unhappy and wishes only to go home.
Mike's Mystery
Gertrude Chandler Warner · 128 pages
WHEN THE ALDEN'S SPEND SOME TIME AT THEIR AUNT JANE'S RANCH THEY RUN INT ONE OF BENNY'S FRIENDS FROM SURPRISE ISLAND. ONE NIGHT SOME ONE BURNS DOWN HIS HOUSE, AND BLAMES HIM FOR IT. CAN THE ALDEN'S CLEAR MIKE'S NAME AND FIGURE OUT WHO BURNT THE HOUSE DOWN.
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
The Good Master
Kate Seredy · 196 pages
"'My cousin Kate from Budapest is coming to live with us. She's delicate and has had the measles!' shouted Jancsi to a friend as he and his father were driving to the station to meet her. Jancsi had imagined Kate as a sort of fragile, fair-haired princess, but the little girl who stepped off the train had plain black hair, a smudgy face, and skinny legs. From the moment Kate arrived, things hap
Happy Times in Noisy Village
Astrid Lindgren · 128 pages
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White · 184 pages
Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such a
Understood Betsy
Dorothy Canfield Fisher · 211 pages
Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
Moo
Sharon Creech · 288 pages
Zora was chasing us. Mooooooooo. Mooooooooo. When we reached the gate Luke scrambled up and over it instead of through it and I was trying to follow when Zora s ENORMOUS HEAD loomed up below me and bumped me into the air.
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.
A Long Way from Chicago
Richard Peck · 160 pages
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back with a dead mouse and a bottle of milk. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl · 96 pages
The main character of Fantastic Mr. Fox is an extremely clever anthropomorphized fox named Mr. Fox. He lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from the cruel, brutish farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Finally tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by bur
Kirsten Saves the Day: A Summer Story
Janet Beeler Shaw · 67 pages
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski · 193 pages
Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award.
Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns · 395 pages
Had difficulty with the unfamiliar language spoken by the characters, but once I was able to figure it out I enjoyed the family dynamics. Upon finishing this book, I immediately borrowed "Leaving Cold Sassy".
Little House on Rocky Ridge
Roger Lea MacBride · 368 pages
Babe: The Gallant Pig
Dick King-Smith · 118 pages
A piglet comes to Farmer Hogget's farm, where he is adopted by an old sheepdog and accomplishes amazing things.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum · 226 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains one of the world's most beloved and widely read books. Throughout a century of remarkable change, the popularity of L. Frank Baum's classic tale has endured and grown, embraced by generation after generation of children and the young at heart. To honour the centennial of its publication in 1900, the University Press of Kansas is presenting this special anniversar
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.