Books like What Katy Did at School

What Katy Did at School is a sequel to “What Katy Did”, and written a year later, in 1873. Like many girls, I read and enjoyed these novels about the Carr family, written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, using the pen name Susan Coolidge. The style and concerns are rather like those of “Little Women”, the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. Interestingly, both authors heightened the realism in their novels by drawing on their own childhood memories.The book starts immediately after the conclusion of the first novel, (view spoiler)[when Katy has recovered from the accident that had confined her to her room for four years. (hide spoiler)]