In Little women, live through the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

In Pollyanna, when an orphaned eleven-year-old comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.

In Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, a talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.