Pippi Longstocking

This is a short, fun read that's really entertaining. Written by Astrid Lindgren, it's about a young girl (Pippi) who has been left a house and a whole trunk of pirate gold by her father, a wandering captain on the high seas. After tons of adventures aboard her fathers ship with his hearty crew, her father is suddenly washed overboard and disappears into the briny blue. She has utter faith that he will return, but until then she is sent home to wait his re-arrivial in relative dullness. But life where Pippi Longstocking is anything but dull... in no time at all, she and her monkey Mr. Nilsson get into oodles of adventures with their new found friends Tommy and Annika, who are fairly normal children. From her first (disastrous) day at school to beating the circus strongman with a flick of her wrist, life with Pippi is an adventure from the get go!