If you liked
Books like The Secret Garden
Loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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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
Chronicles of Avonlea
Twelve stories of adventure and love set in the home town of Anne of Green Gables.
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5
Pollyanna Grows Up
Optimism often fades to cynicism as children mature into adults. When we last saw Pollyanna, in an eponymous book, she had become paralyzed after a nasty fall and it looked like she could very likely
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6
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne and her new husband Gilbert move into their first home and start a family.
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7
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
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?'
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10
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A girl swept to a magical land seeks the way home; the founding American fairy tale.