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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Literary FictionHopeful & UpliftingComing of AgeFamilySlow Burn

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Matched by shared attributes: hopeful & uplifting tone, Coming of Age and Family themes, slow burn pacing, and the same quality of prose.

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
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Francie Nolan grows up poor in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, and her hunger for books, beauty, and a life beyond her circumstances is one of the most quietly moving things in American fiction.

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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson
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A recently widowed English major and a Pakistani-born shopkeeper find an unlikely friendship -- and possibly something more -- in a small Sussex village resistant to change.

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The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Matches on Literary FictionHopeful & UpliftingComing of AgeFamily

A fourteen-year-old girl escapes her abusive father in 1960s South Carolina and finds refuge with three Black beekeeping sisters who may know what happened to her mother.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han
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Every summer, Belly goes to the beach house where the Fisher family lives -- and this summer, everything is going to change.

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Wonder R.J. Palacio
Matches on Literary FictionHopeful & UpliftingComing of AgeIdentity

August Pullman was born with a facial difference. Fifth grade is his first year of school. He is not ordinary. He is extraordinary.

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