Inspired by The Honest Avocado's list of "Five Books to Read When You're Stressed", I decided to make a (much longer) list of my own. The links embedded in the title of each book will take you to Goodreads, for those of you who want to add any to your TBR list, and the second link that I give at the end will take you to a website where you can read it online for free.
Will be adding to this list as I come across more books! Will also flesh out the list so that there's more variety, and will probably add a reason for each book, so that you can read about each one, similar to the way Honest Avocado does their list.
1. The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley (z-lib.org) (OverDrive)
2. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (PDF)
3. A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck (PDF) (OverDrive)
4. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (the "sequel" to A Long Way From Chicago, and just as good, and relaxing) (OverDrive) (Archive.org)
5. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (PDF)
6. Little Pear by Eleanor Frances Lattimore (Archive.org)
7. I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (I read this whenever I'm feeling sick, fsr it's such a calming book. Similar lull to The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell, but with less unhappiness) (World Documents)
8. Black Horses for the King by Anne McCarthy (Archive.org) (silo.pub)
9. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (PDF) (Yumpu) (All Free Novel) (PubHTML5) (onlinereadfreebooks)
10. Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (and every single book of that series, it's so relaxing and calming because it's set in such a sleepy town where nothing goes on) (Archive.org)
11. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (first three are really good at destressing) (OverDrive - there are a billion and one ways to read each of the books in the series online, so I'll leave that up to you. If you search each FULL title and then stick "read free online" to the end of each search, it comes up with the most options)
12. The Melendy Quartet by Elizabeth Enright (same thing here as with the Penderwicks series - take the full title of each book and add "read free online" to the end of it and then hit search and it should pull up a bunch of options)
13. Kirie, Pirie, and Kalikoolin's Pipe by Edward Maze (no online version available)
14. Fair Weather by Richard Peck (Archive.org)
15. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (PDF)
16. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (PDF) (Yumpu)
17. Meet Me In St. Louis by Sally Benson (no online version available)
18. Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli (z-lib.org) (onlinereadfreebooks)
19. Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (onlinereadfreenovel)
20. The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russell Roberts (z-lib.org)
21. Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (z-lib.org) (onlinereadfreebooks) (OverDrive) (LearningAlly - only if you have an account)
22. Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff (z-lib.org) (onlinereadfreebooks)
23. The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr, Freymann-Weyr (z-lib.org) (if you make an account with Epic, where you can only read one book for free per day, but it's available there if you want to read it)
