Books like Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney reads as wholesome, sentimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott · 1886

Shares the escape + hopeful thread

69% genome match

Anne of Avonlea

L.M. Montgomery · 1909

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1935

Shares the escape thread

75% genome match

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Shares the escape + hopeful thread

69% genome match

What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge · 1873

Shares the escape thread

72% genome match

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match

A Chair for My Mother

Vera B. Williams · 1982

Shares the escape + hopeful thread

69% genome match

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

Shares the escape + hopeful thread

69% genome match

145th Street

Walter Dean Myers · 2000

Shares the escape + hopeful thread

69% genome match

Sans famille

Hector Malot · 1878

Shares the escape + hopeful thread

69% genome match

Against the Odds

Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1993

Shares the hopeful thread

69% genome match