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* Beatrix Potter retold Aesop's fable as ''The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse''. A country mouse is accidentally brought to the city, finds it too dangerous, and returns home; a city mouse visits him there, is frightened by the weather and prospect of a cow stepping on him, and returns home. Potter draws the Aesop that people like different things (and ignore different disadvantages).

* [[The Witch of Blackbird Pond]] by Elizabeth George Speare. Kit, the protagonist, is a formerly-rich city mouse from Barbados who comes to live with her aunt and uncle in the small Puritan town where they live. She complains, a lot.

* ''[[The Witch of Blackbird Pond]]'' by Elizabeth George Speare. Kit, the protagonist, is a formerly-rich city mouse from Barbados who comes to live with her aunt and uncle in the small Puritan town where they live. She complains, a lot.

* Jamie from [[Diana Wynne Jones|The Homeward Bounders]] is this, at least in the beginning: a streetwise city kid who has to learn how to interact with a culture of nomadic herders who laugh at him when he uses the wrong word for "cow".

* Jamie from ''[[Diana Wynne Jones|The Homeward Bounders]]'' is this, at least in the beginning: a streetwise city kid who has to learn how to interact with a culture of nomadic herders who laugh at him when he uses the wrong word for "cow".

* Ponder Stibbons in ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', whose reaction to Lancre is "I bet there's not a single delicatessen anywhere." At the end, it's suggested he might be staying there, but his next appearance shows him back in Ankh-Morpork.

* Flora Poste in ''[[Cold Comfort Farm]]'' is a [[Genre Savvy]] version.

* Betty MacDonald's semi-autobiographical memoir ''The Egg and I'' casts her as one of these. The book was later adapted into a film with Claudette Colbert.

* [[Spoiled Sweet|Fleur Delacour]] plays this role in ''[[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]],'' much to the massive chagrin of Mrs. Weasley and Ginny.

* Mark Twain's novel ''The Prince and the Pauper'' had the titular characters switch places. They thought it would be great fun, but turns out neither life is as carefree and pleasant as they hoped.

* [[Mark Twain]]'s novel ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' had the titular characters switch places. They thought it would be great fun, but turns out neither life is as carefree and pleasant as they hoped.

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