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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMolly Learns a Lesson: A School Story
Valerie Tripp · 67 pages
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.
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Maud Hart Lovelace · 171 pages
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 290 pages
The Ingalls family had fared badly in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt. Mary was blind now. So Pa went West to work at a railroad camp in Dakota Territory where he could make as much as fifty dollars a month! Then he sent for his wife and four children, and they became the first settlers in the new town of De Smet. But the railroad brought hordes of land-hungry people from the East. Had Pa
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.
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Michael Morpurgo · 192 pages
When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.
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
All-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.
Just William
Richmal Crompton · 224 pages
There is only one Just William. The loveable imp has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting hundreds of thousands of readers for years. Here, the Outlaws plan a day of non-stop adventure. The only problem is, William is meant to be babysitting. But William won't let that stop him having fun with his gang - he'll just bring the baby along!
In Grandma's Attic
Arleta Richardson · 124 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 pride in a new dress, a special apron for grandpa, and a little girl lost while asleep in her own bed.
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.
The O'Sullivan Twins
Enid Blyton · 183 pages
It's the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their friends at St. Clare's once more. The new girls prove to be a source of much amusement, and there is all the fun of boarding-school life as well.
What Katy Did at School
Susan Coolidge · 188 pages
Katy and her sister Clover dread being sent away to boarding school, but discover that being away from home isn't so bad after all.
A Season of Gifts
Richard Peck
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Mary Anne Saves the Day
Ann M. Martin · 167 pages
Mary Anne has never been a leader of the Baby-sitters Club. She's left that up to Kristy... or Claudia... or Stacey. But now there's a big fight among the four friends, and Mary Anne doesn't have them to depend on anymore. It's bad enough when she's left alone at the lunch table at school. But when she has to baby-sit a sick child without any help from the club members, Mary Anne knows it's tim
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Beverly Cleary · 190 pages
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) is a novel by Beverly Cleary in the Ramona series. Ramona Quimby is in the third grade, now at a new school, and making some new friends. With Beezus in Jr. High and Mr. Quimby going back to college, Ramona feels the pressure with everyone counting on her to manage at school by herself and get along with Willa Jean after school every day. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was named
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 256 pages
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Little House on Rocky Ridge
Roger Lea MacBride · 368 pages
"B" Is for Betsy
Carolyn Haywood · 159 pages
Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm.
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
David Benedictus · 208 pages
It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume that truly captures the style of A. A. Milne-a worthy sequel to The House at Pooh Corner and
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.