13 Top classics books like Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter

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Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature…

"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndrăzni, înfăptui și învinge!"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndrăzni, înfăptui și învinge!"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

If you liked the classics plot in Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved fa… read more

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  • childrens classics
  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Let the girl run and shout as much as she will- it is a sure sign of health, and as natural to a happy child as frisking is to any young animal full of life. Tomboys make strong women"

-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

"It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not."

-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

"But he will be all the better fitted for business, because of the help it [sport] gives him. Polish is easily added if the foundations are strong, but no amount of gilding will be of use if your timb…"

-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

"It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him asunder. "Read and improve your mind, my son," answered Archie, peering solemnly over the pape…"

-Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

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2. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
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  • young adult
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  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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3. An Old-Fashioned Girl

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consiste… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
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"There can't be too much charity!"

-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

"A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman."

-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

"When you feel out of sorts, try to make some one else happy, and you will soon be so yourself."

-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

"We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly."

-Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

Cover of Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

4. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables,… read more

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  • childrens
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  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Red hair is my life long sorrow."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"I love a book that makes me cry."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"True friends are always together in spirit."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

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5. Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.12

Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orpha… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
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  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Never on painter's canvas lives The charm of his fancy's dream."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!"

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

"If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)

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6. Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Reginald Birch

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that m… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
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  • young adult
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  • historical fiction
Cover of Heidi by Johanna Spyri, None

7. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , None

5.00

Format: None pages,

Heidi ist glucklich bei ihrem Grossvater auf der Alm; sie wird liebevoll von ihm versorgt und darf … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

8. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

By: Margaret Sidney

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five Little Peppers and How They Grewwas originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

9. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

By: Kate Douglas Wiggin

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Shirley Temple did a lot to make Rebecca famous when she won the world's heart in the movie we all … read more

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10. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
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  • historical fiction
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

11. What Katy Did (Carr Family, #1)

By: Susan Coolidge

2.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Grade 5-8-Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she … read more

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12. The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

In a house full of sadness and secrets, can young, orphaned Mary find happiness? Mary Lennox, a … read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
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  • young adult
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  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Might I,"

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"They're a pair of young Satans."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

13. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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14. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1)

By: Hugh Lofting , Michael Hague

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with an… read more

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15. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

Cover of Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter

16. Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature… read more

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"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndr…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - '…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in th…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

Cover of Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) by Carol Ryrie Brink

17. Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to b… read more

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"Life is just a lot of everyday adventures."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

"But every redhead's temper has its limitations."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

18. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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19. Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3)

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still pr… read more

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20. Dogs vs Bears

By: Austin Davis

4.30

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Fourth-grader Austin Davis introduces a new way for kids to learn about diversity, appreciating dif… read more

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