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The Peppermint Pig

Nina Bawden · 160 pages

Johnnie was only the runt of the litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his great naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and Theo cheerful, even though it was one of the most difficult years of their lives.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionBittersweet
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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.

HeartwarmingMiddle GradeHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool · 384 pages

Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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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.

Middle GradeHistorical FictionHeartwarmingBittersweet
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Molly Story Collection

Valerie Tripp, Nick Backes, Keith Skeen

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Petey

Ben Mikaelsen · 280 pages

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

Middle GradeHistorical FictionHeartwarmingMultiple POV
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The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West

Kristiana Gregory · 203 pages

As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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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.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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That Scatterbrain Booky

Bernice Thurman Hunter

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionBittersweet
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Little House on Rocky Ridge

Roger Lea MacBride · 368 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Blue Willow

Doris Gates · 172 pages

A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to will be their permanent home. -- bookshare.org Janey Larkin once had a home. But that was before the drought. Now Janey and her parent are migrants, picking crops in the San Joaquin valley in California, moving on every few months. They have little more than the clo

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionBittersweet
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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.

Middle GradeHistorical FictionHeartwarmingFemale Lead
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Molly Learns a Lesson: A School Story

Valerie Tripp · 67 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Shadow

Michael Morpurgo · 288 pages

"When Shadow, a bomb-sniffing spaniel, goes missing in the middle of war-torn Afghanistan, his soldier-owner is devastated. Meanwhile, Shadow makes friends with a local Afghan boy, and sees a whole other side of the war. But as Christmas draws ever closer, the question is - will Shadow and his trainer ever be reunited...?" --Publisher description.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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Roller Skates

Ruth Sawyer · 186 pages

Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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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

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill · 388 pages

An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingMultiple POVBittersweet
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Judy Blume · 298 pages

After 10-year-old Jewish Sally Jane Freedman's brother Douglas gets sick with a kidney infection, her family temporarily moves for a year after World War II.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic

Arleta Richardson, Patrice Barton · 157 pages

A collection of stories of life in the late nineteenth century, many reflecting the Christian faith of the author's family, including tales of a homemade anti-wrinkle concoction, a visit that proves money can't buy happiness, and a hard lesson in remembering to put things away.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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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.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story

Maxine Rose Schur · 66 pages

The two weeks before Christmas are filled with activity as Samantha finishes her homemade presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages

Middle GradeHistorical FictionHeartwarmingNostalgic
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Little City by the Lake

Celia Wilkins · 309 pages

Fifteen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, moves to Milwaukee in 1855 to experience city life and attend school.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingHistorical FictionNostalgic
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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingNostalgicFemale Lead
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