vonfirmath Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 What other books are like Anne of Green Gables? 1. Sweet, honoring to parents (Anne and Diana actually STAY APART from each other for a very long time when Diana's parents require it, even though they don't agree. These days, books would have had them sneaking around to see each other and approval) 2. Covering a longish period of time so you see the kids grow up and change over the book instead of having to have everything happen in a really short period of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scholastica Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm comes to mind. Also, A Girl of the Limberlost. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) Is this for a young child to read, or a teen? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn comes to mind, but there is a failed abduction by a pervert in it, and towards the end the girl Francie is grown and almost has sex with a soldier leaving for WWI. Tree takes Francie from age 11 to older teen a hundred years ago. I love this book! Edited March 21, 2018 by JFSinIL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Little Women? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 The Marjorie Dean books (starts in high school, goes through college - and if you like these then the Grace Harlowe series, both on Project Gutenberg) Cheaper By The Dozen/Belles On Their Toes Five Little Peppers series The other L.M. Montgomery book series: Pat, Emily of New Moon Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (and the sequel) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins and follow up Rose in Bloom have similar moral vibes and follow one person as a girl and later as a mother. I loved them so much as a child it wasn't until after college that I understood most critics find morals in writing to be a bad thing. I haven't read them since I was a child, so you might want to police them for matter that is no longer appropriate. I don't remember racism, etc, but it could be there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjae3578 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I haven't read them in years, but I remember a very sweet and wholesome vibe about the Betsy-Tacy books, by Maud Hart Lovelace. They begin at about age 5 and go through to at least late teens, if I recall. They reminded me a lot of the LH and Anne books, set in a slightly different era in Minnesota. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I haven't read them in years, but I remember a very sweet and wholesome vibe about the Betsy-Tacy books, by Maud Hart Lovelace. They begin at about age 5 and go through to at least late teens, if I recall. They reminded me a lot of the LH and Anne books, set in a slightly different era in Minnesota. Yes! I couldn't remember the name of that series but it does have a very similar vibe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Syne Boardie Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 LM Montgomery wrote a lot of books. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Is this for a young child to read, or a teen? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn comes to mind, but there is a failed abduction by a pervert in it, and towards the end the girl Francie is grown and almost has sex with a soldier leaving for WWI. Tree takes Francie from age 11 to older teen a hundred years ago. I love this book! I am sharing Anne of Green Gables with my kids now and they are enjoying it. But stuff not appropriate for them I can read on my own and just not share :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 I haven't read them in years, but I remember a very sweet and wholesome vibe about the Betsy-Tacy books, by Maud Hart Lovelace. They begin at about age 5 and go through to at least late teens, if I recall. They reminded me a lot of the LH and Anne books, set in a slightly different era in Minnesota. OOOH I loved the Betsy-Tacy books as a kid. I'd forgotten about those! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 This series only addresses the honoring to parents part (and good morals in general), but The Trixie Belden series is fantastic. The language isn't as beautiful, but it does utilize a decent vocabulary with good words, introduces facts about wildlife and other things and is just GOOD and moral. Lots about friendship, duty to family, the benefit of working hard even when it isn't easy, etc. Plus fun mysteries! Now, I will say that I'd take the first aid advice given with a grain of salt, lol. Poor Trixie bonks her head and is knocked unconscious and no one does anything more than put some iodine on her cut and send her out to play...but otherwise, fantastic. Oh, and in the first book Trixie does keep a secret from her parents, but feels badly about it and is only doing it to protect someone vulnerable. She does eventually tell her parents. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 All-of-a-Kind Family. The Elsie Dinsmore books were quite popular, oh, 20 years ago, although not *everyone* loved them. I read Old-Fashioned Girl and other Alcott books when I was young and enjoyed them; however, I reread Eight Cousins recently and found it to just be preachy. Little action, lots of preachy, pages of preachy. Little Women was much better than those. Little Men and Jo's Boys were preachier. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 LM Montgomery wrote a lot of books. Yes, there are a lot more books with Anne, as well as many other books with similar themes. Emily of New Moon is a 3-book series. Chronicles of Avonlea are a series of short stories, and some of the main characters are boys, which is a nice variation to the all-girl theme of a lot of her books. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 The Elsie Dinsmore books were quite popular, oh, 20 years ago, although not *everyone* loved them. Just a word on the Elsie Dinsmore books - the originals are quite abusive to the little girl. I was shocked at the lengths the author went to so she could prove the girl's unwavering Christianity and submission. The ones that were reprinted have some of that behavior removed, but there are other unsavory elements to the stories like portraying slavery as good, weird marriages to gentlemen 20 years older, and a lack of originality in names. By the time you get to the next gen children, they're all named after their parents, and then their grandparents. The books are fantastic for grooming young girls in the mindset that authoritarian patriarchy is the right and only solution for families, so they are popular in various groups. But I would definitely pre-read them if you're going to hand them to your kids. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I loved Betsy-Tacy and sequels. The first has one of the most beautiful chapters in all of children's literature, imo. Be aware that there is some Ouija board play in a later book, if that bothers you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I love old-fashioned books and I am a committed Christian. I absolutely loathed the Elsie Dinsmore books - abusive, manipulative, lousy writing and repetitive plots. Just terrible. Anne 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) I remember enjoying the What Katy Did books by Susan Coolidge ETA: I think they have a much lower reading level than the Anne books. Edited March 21, 2018 by Slartibartfast 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraBeth475 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson has a very moral girl as the main character Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I love old-fashioned books and I am a committed Christian. I absolutely loathed the Elsie Dinsmore books - abusive, manipulative, lousy writing and repetitive plots. Just terrible. Anne A few years ago when I was reading the series for myself I found this hilarious blog detailing the books. The bottom of this page has the first post: "Elsie Dinsmore Spreads Her Wretched Tentacles". https://featherbless.dreamwidth.org/tag/we%27re+reading+elsie+dinsmore%21 I laughed my rear end off. The books had been suggested over and over in my circles as things for kids to read and I was looking forward to reading them when I found them on Project Gutenberg. It quickly became one long tale of horror. :lol: But NOBODY I knew shared my POV until I saw that blog! (and yeah, I read most of them until I lost track of who the stories were about- Elsie I, Elsie II, Rose I, Rose II... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraBeth475 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Oh, what about the Grandma’s Attic books? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I remember enjoying the What Katy Did books by Susan Coolidge Oh, I loved these as a kid, too! I know Pollyanna and Heidi both had sequels, but I'm not sure how long they followed the girls in their lives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraBeth475 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 My Anne fan suggests the Dear America books, though they have a different girl in each one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 What about All Of A Kind Family? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 When my girls were very small we enjoyed the Milly-Molly-Mandy books Amber in SJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 (edited) LM Montgomery wrote a lot of books. Yes, she was a prolific author. She wrote Chronicles from Avonlea which have some familiar characters and some new ones. The Trixie Belden series came to mind but it's usually centered around some kind of mystery. Not sure if this is what you are looking for. Malory Towers? The Famous Five, also by Enid Blyton. Emily of New Moon Edited March 22, 2018 by Liz CA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 I just posted this in another thread; perhaps it will be of interest to some here: A number of FREE Kindle books by L.M. Montgomery can be found here. Regards, Kareni 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Oh, I loved these as a kid, too! I know Pollyanna and Heidi both had sequels, but I'm not sure how long they followed the girls in their lives. I love the 3rd Heidi book. It is very Christian and concerns a troubled little girl who comes to live with Heidi and Peter. I dearly dearly love the Heidi books. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 I love the 3rd Heidi book. It is very Christian and concerns a troubled little girl who comes to live with Heidi and Peter. I dearly dearly love the Heidi books. We did Heidi as a read-aloud but i had no idea there was a 2nd and 3rd book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 I just posted this in another thread; perhaps it will be of interest to some here: A number of FREE Kindle books by L.M. Montgomery can be found here. Regards, Kareni The Blue Castle is one of my favourites! It's on the list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Oh, what about the Grandma’s Attic books? These are some of my all-time favorites. Every few years, I read them aloud, and we all enjoy them like it's the first time we're hearing the stories! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 I love the 3rd Heidi book. It is very Christian and concerns a troubled little girl who comes to live with Heidi and Peter. I dearly dearly love the Heidi books.I never knew there was a 3rd book. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Not so old fashioned but definitely a focus on character - the incorrigible children of Ashton Place. Warning for anyone concerned it does feature magic and a curse/werewolf of a kind but not in an overly magic way if that makes sense. It has a very down to earth feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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