18 books like Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh & Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle
Little men
The characters from Little Women grow up and begin new adventures at Plumfield, a progressive school founded by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer.
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.***--LibraryThing***
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the…
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Lost in the Barrens - Collector's Edition
Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, **Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of…
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves #1)
This novel is the first in the Wolves Chronicles (aka The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Series), a series of children's novels set during the fictional early-19th century reign of King James the third.
A large number of wolves have migrated from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via a new "channel tunnel", and terrorize the inhabitants of rural areas. Read about the adventures of…
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Disney's The jungle book
The adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by animals in the Indian jungle.
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Heidi
***The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl*** who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. **One of the most loved classics ...both by children and adults, alike.**
***Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes…
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Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)
Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.
Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they…
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Le chat botté
***A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess.***
**Charles Perrault first published his collection of classic French folk tales 300 years ago, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and this entertaining story about a most clever feline.**
***In Puss and Boots, a poor miller dies and leaves his youngest son nothing but a cat.*** The son is none…
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George's Marvelous Medicine
What's the only cure for the meanest grandmother in the world? George creates a fierce and fantastic bubbling brew, the perfect cure.
In this popular Dahl story, George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. Great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
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The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)
***Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all intensely.*** She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanagable. So when **she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet** -- Gilly decides to put her brilliant mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme…
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Green Eggs and Ham
Sam-I-am tries to persuade the character in the top hat to try green eggs and ham.
“Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s…
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The Black Stallion
***Story of a horse the New York Times has called ''the most famous fictional horse of the Century!''***
Young Alec is on his way home when a black stallion is loaded on to his ship. In a tragic shipwreck Alec saves the life of the black stallion. Stranded on an island the only way to survive is to trust the other. **Will Alec ever make it safely home? Will the Black beat the two best racing…
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Family Reunion
(Gr. 6-7+ 11-12 yrs+) **When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives, interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic.**
With her father away on business and her older sister visiting their mother in Paris, Shelley must face the "perfect" Preffyns' reunion with only her prankster younger brother and her insecure new…
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Scrambled Eggs Super!
Tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same, Peter T. Hooper goes on an egg hunt, for his new recipe. He also finds loads of words that rhyme, to put in the keywords for his cook, book .... look!
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Princess and the Pea
A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.
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The Bobbsey Twins
***"The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out"*** introduces the delightful and inquisitive Bobbsey children-Bert and Nan, eight years old and dark and thin; and Freddie and Flossie, four years old and blonde and plump-two sets of high-spirited twins living in Lakeport, USA.
***The first of more than eighty books in a series,*** The Bobbsey Twins sets up a winning formula, allowing us to…
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Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) is a novel by Beverly Cleary in the Ramona series. Ramona Quimby is in the third grade, now at a new school, and making some new friends. With Beezus in Jr. High and Mr. Quimby going back to college, Ramona feels the pressure with everyone counting on her to manage at school by herself and get along with Willa Jean after school every day. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was named…
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The Morning Watch
***The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal*** boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of ***Good Friday in 1923***.
***Part I*** opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer…
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Flawless
**Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. *Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher*.** ***Emily likes her new friend Maya...as much more than a friend.*** Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is making her sick. And their most horrible secret yet is so scandalous that the truth would ruin them forever. And why shouldn't I tell? They deserve to lose it all. With every crumpled note, wicked…
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