It's strange. I distinctly remember having some books of "stories for boys", and yet none of them have survived (in memory or on the shelf). I do still have some Enid Blyton books on the shelf (she was an equal opportunity patronizer of the very young
), and I do still have a few of the animal stories from back around then or a bit later (eg:
The Silver Brumby), although most belonged to siblings or the library. But when comes to anything similar to Anne, or to Tom Sawyer nothing comes to mind. I'm fairly sure I read some, but none have stuck. Once I got beyond Blyton, my memory has me mostly taken up with animals and/or adult protagonists: my father had quite a lot Readers' Digest abridged books, including the first dozen or so Tarzan stories, and then sci-fi once I got to raid my high school library.