Books like Counting sheep by Jacqueline Kelly

At eleven, Calpurnia Tate explores Texas nature, learns about insects with her skeptical grandfather, and discovers what it means to grow up and be a girl in 1899.

Callie Vee Tate grows up in Fentress, Texas, where she balances family expectations and a love of animals. A boyhood full of stray dogs, armadillos, and a skeptical mother, she learns whether her dream of veterinary medicine will come true.

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family's life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.From the Hardcover edition.

A child counts sheep and other animals in multiples of two, three, four and five before falling asleep.

Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet follows a Texas girl who, with her little brother, shelters and cares for two abandoned baby skunks, striving to keep them hidden from their mother while nurturing her budding interest in animal care.

Twelve‑year‑old Spring Pearl, an orphan in Guangzhou, uses her literacy and boyish courage to help her adopted family survive the 1857 Opium War.

In a Bangladeshi village, ten‑year‑old Naimi must disguise herself as a boy to help her family earn money through her talent for painting alpanas.

A thirteen‑year‑old Afghan girl defies her father, learns to read from a secret tutor, and faces a life‑changing cleft palate surgery offered by American troops.