Books like A Little Princess
If you liked A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Secret Garden
Because also by Frances Hodgson Burnett; shares tags: classics, children, friendship.
Sour Mary Lennox lands at Misselthwaite Moor from India, finds a locked garden with Dickon, and pulls sickly Colin to his feet.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Because shares tags: children, friendship, classics.
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Because shares tags: children, classics, friendship.
Edward Bear comes downstairs bump-bump-bump and into the Hundred Acre Wood for honey, hunneys, and heffalumps.
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The House at Pooh Corner
Because shares tags: children, classics, friendship.
Tigger bounces into the Hundred Acre Wood while Pooh builds Eeyore a house and Piglet does a grand thing.
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Tuck Everlasting
Because shares tags: children, classics.
Winnie Foster meets the immortal Tuck family in the woods and must decide whether to drink from their spring.
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The Silver Chair
Because shares tags: children, classics.
Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Because shares tags: children, classics.
A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.
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The Last Battle
Because shares tags: children, classics.
Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.
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One Day in December
Because shares tags: friendship, london.
Laurie spots her dream man from a London bus, then meets him again as her best friend Sarah's new boyfriend.
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Black Beauty
Because shares tags: children, kindness.
Black Beauty retold in his own voice, from Birtwick Park to London cabs, through hard owners and kind hands.
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The Three Musketeers
Because shares tags: classics, friendship.
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
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The Lorax
Because shares tags: children, classics.
The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop.
