Anne of Green Gables

Four sisters get through a hard winter while their father is away at the war, and then get through growing up. The complete novel in a large readable typeset.

Louisa May Alcott

Mary Lennox arrives at a Yorkshire manor with a locked garden and a cousin nobody mentions. A novel about two unpleasant children becoming bearable, and then well.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara Crewe goes from the richest pupil at a London boarding school to its scullery maid overnight. The complete novel, with the attic chapters that make the ending work.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

A girl is left with her grandfather on an Alpine pasture, then taken to a city house where she cannot breathe. The full English text of both parts.

Johanna Spyri

Three children move to a cottage by the tracks after their father disappears, and the railway becomes their whole world. Complete, including the landslide and the red flannel petticoats.

E. Nesbit