Hi all! I hope you’re doing well.
I have a sudden craving to read a book series that involves someone who’s a child in the earlier books of a series but transitions to an adult in the later books.
Other than those mentioned in the title, I think the Betsy-Tacy series, Eight Cousins, and Pollyanna would also fit the bill (and maybe Little Women or Jane Eyre). These sorts of novels are typically historical fiction hence, that’s my preferred genre.
Thank you 😀
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Heidi by Joanna Spyri. Her translator, Charles Tritten, wrote a couple of sequels: Heidi Grows Up & Heidi’s Children.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott – follows on with Good Wives, Little Men and Jo’s Boys.
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge – grows up through what Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next
The Trudy books by Mary Alice Faid – follows Trudy from girlhood to marriage and family in mid-20th century Scotland. These have a Christian faith element: fairly traditional and reflect social norms of time.
Just one novel (not a series), but Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas fits this genre.
The All of a Kind Family books. They’re the true story of a Jewish family in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan in the early 20th C. (This is my own family’s background.) They’re lovely.
Not a classic, but Kit Pearson’s The Guests of War Trilogy follows two siblings over five years who come to Canada during the Blitz.
If you’re looking for darker historical fiction, you could try the Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante. It follows two friends from childhood to old age in corrupt post-war Italy.
The Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich — it’s a direct response to the Little House books but the protagonists are Native Americans. Highly recommend.
Budge Wilson wrote a prequel “Before Green Gables” which is amazing,
“Booky” series by Bernice Thurman Hunter