Holes

Holes (1998) is a Newbery Medal-winning novel. It was adapted into a screenplay for the 2003 film by Walt Disney Pictures which was a critical and commercial success.
In 2006, they published Small Steps, a companion novel which is about one of the characters from Holes, Armpit.

Laments

Jan Kochanowski was born in 1530, the son of Piotr Kochanowski, and of Anna Bialaczowska. His father owned large tracts of land in Radom and was for some time a magistrate in the town of Sandomierz. At the age of fourteen years Jan embarked upon a life of study and travel. In 1544 he entered the University of Kraków, which had developed in accordance with the literary tastes and traditions of Renaissance Humanism. He remained in Kraków for five years and left the university without having received any formal degree. Kochanowski spent the next seven years outside of Poland.

Heidi

Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre), usually abbreviated Heidi, is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" as quoted from its subtitle in 1880.

Goodnight Mister Tom

Goodnight Mister Tom (also Good Night, Mr Tom) is a 1981 novel. It follows a young boy, William Beech, who is evacuated from London during the air-raids of World War II, and put into the care of Tom Oakley, an elderly recluse. Thanks to Tom, William Beech is able to experience a new life of loving and care.

A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice (U.S. title: The Legacy) is a novel  about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war.