Precious, Precocious,
& Other Memorable Fictional Children

Jo & her sisters
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Katanya
Fresh Air, Charlotte Vale Allen

Lou and Oz
Wish You Well, David Baldacci

Nichole
The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks

Paolina
Heart of the World, Linda Barnes

Katie
Durable Goods, Joy School, & True to Form, Elizabeth Berg

Mary Grace
Souls Raised From the Dead, Doris Betts

Anna
House Under Snow, Jill Bialosky

Connie
Midwives, Christopher A. Bohjalian

Will & Jim
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

Alice
The Rope Walk, Carrie Brown

Ronnee
Half a Heart, Rosellen Brown

Ender
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

Z
The Meq, Steve Cash

Lala
Caramelo: Or Puro Cuento, Sandra Cisneros

Denny
What to Keep, Rachel Cline

David
The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly

Clare
Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos

Tab
My Last Days as Roy Rogers, Pat Cunningham Devoto

Davey
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Rayona
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris

Jim
Jim the Boy, Tony Earley

Rube & Swede
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger

Grace
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans

Oskar
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

Bird
Before Women Had Wings, Connie May Fowler

Hadiyyah
Deception on His Mind, Elizabeth George

Ellen & Starletta
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons

Margaret
Father Melancholy’s Daughter, Gail Godwin

Eliza
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg

Emma
Cold Flat Junction, Martha Grimes

Luke
A Painted House, John Grisham

Christopher
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon

Ike & Bobby
Plainsong, Kent Haruf

Nathan
The Sword of Straw, Amanda Hemingway

Caron
Damsels in Distress, and other Claire Malloy mysteries, Joan Hess

Amir & Hassan
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

Patty
Snow Mountain Passage, James D. Houston

Trevor
Pay It Forward, Catherine Ryan Hyde

Owen
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

Molly
The Nanny Murders, Merry Jones

Dooley
At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon

Billy
Billy Straight, Jonathan Kellerman

Lily
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Ruth May
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

The unnamed narrator (Paul’s daughter)
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Harry & Tom
The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale

Scout, Jem & Dill
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

John Grady, Lacey, & Jimmy
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy

Daisy
Child of My Heart, Alice McDermott

The Barnacle sisters
A Taxonomy of Barnacles, Galt Niederhoffer

Anna
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult

Danny & Reuven
The Chosen, Chaim Potok

Tessa Lee
Firefly Cloak, Sheri Reynolds

Harry, Ron, & Hermione
The Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling

Icy
Icy Sparks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Tick
Empire Falls, Richard Russo

Susie
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

Nicky
Light on Snow, Anita Shreve

Francie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Irie, Millat, & Magid
White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Jackson
Monkeewrench, P.J. Tracy

Tom, Huck, & Becky
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

Edgar
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall

Laurie & Buddy
The Longest Road, Jeanne Williams

Colin
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis

Larissa
The Sound of Us, Sarah Willis

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