Books like Life is sweet by Cathy Cassidy

A lonely orphan girl on the Yorkshire moors befriends a disabled cousin and unlocks the secrets of a hidden garden.

When Grandma Mimi has a stroke, Claudia must take over babysitting duties, which strains her already tense relationship with her sister and threatens her place in the Babysitters Club.

Thirteen‑year‑old Lakshmi leaves her impoverished Himalayan home for India, only to discover she has been sold into prostitution. With fierce resilience and new friendships, she fights her captivity and seeks a way back to freedom.

Sarah Addison Allen’s charming follow‑up to *Garden Spells* follows 27‑year‑old Josey Cirrini as waitress Della Lee’s unexpected arrival turns her sugary‑cluttered life into a journey of friendship, romance, and quirky magic.

In 1900s Minnesota, shy Betsy Ray finally finds a playmate when a new family moves in across the street. Her friendship with Tacy Kely turns into a legendary duo, Betsy‑Tacy, as they build a playhouse, start a sand store, and add new companions to their circle.

A tale of manners and expectations in the city versus the countryside, exploring the clash between Polly and her wealthy friend Fanny Shaw.

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A summer camp story of friendship and the challenges of adapting to a new environment, filled with homesickness, art, and a group of cruel girls.

Rose Campbell returns to her roots in this sequel to 'Eight Cousins'.

Cathy Cassidy offers honest advice on growing up, friendships and making dreams come true for young readers.

When Karen befriends Addie, a girl with cerebral palsy, she learns that true friendship means learning to support without overstepping.

Julie, a school student, campaigns for student-body president to reform detention after a misunderstanding with a deaf classmate, Joy. With persistence and a creative campaign she wins while staying true to her principles.

Hannah and Joey share a lifelong friendship until Joey’s new foster brother, Paul, arrives—sparking love, rivalry, and a series of misadventures involving kittens, a chocolate bar, and a pink bicycle.

Sweetness, the spirited orphan girl from the first book, teams up with her friends to rescue their community in a humorous Western adventure where reading skills—and a mysterious letter—are the keys to a new future.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Twelve‑year‑old Annie Platt learns hard‑earned independence on a 1945 California summer camp, reshaping her view of her protective German‑Jewish immigrant family.

Belle Teal, a young girl from a rural, impoverished family, enters fifth grade as she navigates her grandmother’s fading memory and the arrival of new Black students at her school, confronting friendship and prejudice in the South.

Lily Blennerhassett spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend while keeping a diary of her dull home life and the exciting discoveries of newfound relatives.