Books like Pippi Longstocking
Pippi, the strongest girl in the world, lives alone in a ramshackle house in a small Swedish town with a horse, a monkey and a suitcase of gold coins, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do, to the delight of her neighbours Tommy and Annika.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie Bucket, who lives with his parents and four grandparents in a tiny house, finds one of five golden tickets to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory, along with four spectacularly spoiled children.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Light verse about the cats of London: Macavity the mystery cat, Growltiger, Mr Mistoffelees, Skimbleshanks the railway cat and the naming of cats.
Harriet the Spy
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, who wants to be a writer, spies on her Manhattan neighbours and classmates and writes down everything in her notebook, until her friends find it and read what she wrote about them.
The BFG
Sophie, an orphan, is snatched from her bed by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows good dreams through children's windows at night, and together they set out to stop the other giants, who eat children.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.
Mary Poppins
Blown in on the east wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, a stern and vain new nanny takes charge of the Banks children, and nothing in their days is ordinary again.
Nothing to See Here
Lillian, stuck in a dead-end life in Tennessee, is offered a job by her old friend Madison, now married to a senator: looking after his ten-year-old twins from his first marriage, who burst into flames when they get upset.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
On his hundredth birthday Allan Karlsson climbs out of the window of his old people's home in his slippers, walks off with a suitcase of a gang's cash at a bus station and sets off, while the story of his improbable life through the twentieth century unfolds.
My Friends
Eighteen-year-old Louisa, an artist with nowhere to call home, has always wondered about the tiny figures at the end of a pier in a famous painting, and when it is unexpectedly left in her care she sets out to learn about the summer, twenty-five years earlier, when four teenagers spent their days on that pier.
The Grass Harp
An orphaned boy, his gentle elderly cousin Dolly and her friend Catherine move into a treehouse to escape Dolly's domineering sister, and the town turns out to bring them down.
The Dog of the South
Ray Midge of Little Rock follows his runaway wife, her ex-husband and his stolen Ford Torino to Honduras, picking up a broken-down con man named Dr. Reo Symes along the way.