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Books like Pollyanna Grows Up
Loved Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor Hodgman Porter? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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1
The Little Prince
A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.
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2
Charlotte's Web
A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.
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3
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphan learns he is a wizard and finds a home at a school of magic; the book that made a generation read.
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4
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne and her new husband Gilbert move into their first home and start a family.
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5
Chronicles of Avonlea
Twelve stories of adventure and love set in the home town of Anne of Green Gables.
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6
The Secret Garden
A sour orphan brings a hidden garden, and herself, back to life; a quietly healing classic.
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Rainbow Valley
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, becom
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8
The Wind in the Willows
Mole, Rat, Badger and the incorrigible Toad on the riverbank; a cosy, lyrical classic.
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9
Winnie-the-Pooh
A bear of very little brain and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; timeless and quietly wise.
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10
The Wouldbegoods
Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop - eh, what?'