Other books similar to Ann of GG?

[Sarahkay]

My DD8 in 3rd grade loves her "girly" fiction. But I'm running out of titles. We've read: Heidi, Little Women, Rebecca of Sunnybrook, Ann of GG, AG fiction.

 

Any suggestions for "girl" classic fiction (contemporary titles, too, as long as they aren't too "fluffy")?

[dbmamaz]

Secret Garden? Mandy? and i've heard the american girl series are actually historically educational?

[4everHis]

My DD8 in 3rd grade loves her "girly" fiction. But I'm running out of titles. We've read: Heidi, Little Women, Rebecca of Sunnybrook, Ann of GG, AG fiction.

 

Any suggestions for "girl" classic fiction (contemporary titles, too, as long as they aren't too "fluffy")?

 

 

That's Anne with an e :) L.M. Montgomery wrote more than "Anne." There's "Emily of New Moon", "Blue Castle", etc. All equally wonderful.

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

I was going to suggest Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. :)

 

How about Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher? All of a Kind Family (series) by Sydney Taylor, Ballet Shoes (and others) by Noel Streatfeild?

 

Others that aren't quite as girly: The Saturdays (series) by Enright, Moffats and others by Estes, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, The Railway Children by Nesbit (one of my favorites), The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald.

[momtoamiracle]

Little House on the Prairie series, tho not excessively girly., along with the Rose books written by Roger Lea Macbride.

The Little Princess

 

tons of other books by LM Montgomery.

 

Louisa May Alcott books, she may like Little Women and Little Men, as well as Under the Lilac bush ,and Eight Cousins

 

Hitty by Rachel Field

 

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy books - found here in ebook form:

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/search?cx=partner-pub-5879764092668092%3Awdqcfbe9xi9&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=Johnny+gruelle&siteurl=www.booksshouldbefree.com%2Fbook%2Fhans-brinker-or-the-silver-skates-by-mary-mapes-dodge&ref=&ss=4938j2301670j19

 

you can find tons more ebook and audiobooks on that site, for free.

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

Little House on the Prairie series, tho not excessively girly., along with the Rose books written by Roger Lea Macbride.

The Little Princess

 

tons of other books by LM Montgomery.

 

Louisa May Alcott books, she may like Little Women and Little Men, as well as Under the Lilac bush ,and Eight Cousins

 

Hitty by Rachel Field

 

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy books - found here in ebook form:

http://www.booksshou...4938j2301670j19

 

you can find tons more ebook and audiobooks on that site, for free.

 

Eight Cousins is a great suggestion!

[Rosie]

Understood Betsy (one of my favorites!)

A Little Princess

Ella Enchanted

Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard

Rachel Yoder books by Wanda Brunstetter

Mandy by Julie Andrews

The Secret Garden

The Lacemaker and the Princess

Milly-Molly-Mandy

A Treasury of Princesses by Shirley Climo

[alisoncooks]

Maybe the "Katy" books by Susan Coolidge ("What Katy Did")? I think there are a few (at least 3 or 4) in the series. Some are OOP, but if you have Kindle, they're free.

[nmoira]

The Little White Horse

A Little Princess

The Secret Garden

The Princess and the Goblin

 

[Aurelia]

Trying to come up with some that haven't already been mentioned...

 

Charlotte Sometimes

The House Among the Trees

the Oz books

Howl's Moving Castle

Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

Pippi Longstocking

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Gypsy Girl (Godden)

Baby Island (fluffy, but I loved it as a child)

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (five children, but the two sisters are prominently featured)

Emily's Runaway Imagination

The Light Princess

The Ordinary Princess

Twig

[kubiac]

Ronia the Robber's Daughter is WONDERFUL.

 

Just here to testify for A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter.

[Sarahkay]

These are awesome! So many titles I had forgotten. As usual, the Hive kills it! Thanks to all.

[lisabees]

DD loves girly books, too. The suggestions you have gotten are great. DD especially loved Mandy, Secret Garden, A Little Princess, An Ordinary Princess and All of a Kind Family. I'll add:

 

The Night Fairy

Because of Winn Dixie

The Royal Diaries

Dear America

Pollyanna

Tuck Everlasting

The Penderwicks

[momtoamiracle]

Ronia the Robber's Daughter is WONDERFUL.

Just here to testify for A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter.

 

 

 

Limber lost is such a good book! Love the movie too with Annette Otoole.

[Ellie]

Betsy-Tacy (series)

The Borrowers (series)

 

FTR, if you want to do Girl of the Limberlost, you need to do Freckles first. Actually, Girl of the LImberlost hurt my eyeballs. I thought it would never end. I think I must be the only person in the entire known world who hated it, lol. I don't think it would be a great book for a child, in any case.

[alisoncooks]

Actually, Girl of the LImberlost hurt my eyeballs. I thought it would never end. I think I must be the only person in the entire known world who hated it, lol. I don't think it would be a great book for a child, in any case.

You're not. I wasn't a fan. :)

[Ellie]

You're not. I wasn't a fan. :)

 

:grouphug: At last!! Someone else who isn't a fan!!!

[alpidarkomama]

Caddie Woodlawn

Five Little Peppers

Pollyanna

 

all of those books also have sequels