This list is like a literary hot chocolate - a large one with lots of whipped cream. Life is good, everything will turn out fine, and yes, I will have some ice cream with that.
	The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (2012)
	Just a dog by Michael Gerard Bauer (2010)
	The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (2005) First book in The Penderwicks series
	Utterly me, Clarice Bean by Lauren Child (2002) First book in the Clarice Bean series
	Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (2002)
	Star-crossed by Barbara Dee (2017)
	Matty forever by Elizabeth Fensham (2009) First book in the Matty and Bill series
	Alice-Miranda at school by Jacqueline Harvey (2010) First book in the Alice-Miranda series
	The ordinary princess by M.M. Kaye (1980)
	The sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith (1983)
	11 birthdays by Wendy Mass (2009) First book in the Willow Falls series
	Judy Moody by Megan McDonald (2000) First book in the Judy Moody  series
	Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (1908) First book in the Anne Shirley series
	Red dirt diaries by Katrina Nannestad (2010) First book in the Red dirt diaries series
	A long way from Chicago by Richard Peck (1998) First book in the Grandma Dowdel series
	The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Q. Rauf (2018)
	The mum hunt by Gwyneth Rees (2003) First book in the Mum series
	Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar (1983)
	Dream on, Amber by Emma Shevah (2014)
	Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
	Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013)
	Charlotte's web by E.B. White (1952)
	Sleep-overs by Jacqueline Wilson (2001)
	Moving day by Meg Cabot (2008) First book in the Allie Finkle's rules for girls series
	What Katy did by Susan M. Coolidge (1872) First book in the Katy did series
	Hazel Green by Odo Hirsch (1999) First book in the Hazel Green series
	Switched by Sienna Mercer (2009) First book in the My sister the vampire series
	Here in the real world by Sara Pennypacker (2020)
	A crooked kind of perfect by Linda Urban (2007)
	Charlotte and the starlet by Dave Warner (2007) First book in the Charlotte and the starlet series