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** This goes for the live-action TV version, too.
** That said, the books do have them age up a couple of years. Julian was meant to be 15 or 16 at one point. One website worked out, from the pattern of summer/Easter/xmas/half term holidays they had, that by the end of the books they should all be in their early 20s.
* Similarly in ''[[The Ship That Flew]]'' by Hilda Lewis, published in England in 1939. No one in this book thinks it unusual or bad parenting to pack four pre-teen kids a picnic lunch and let them wander off on a day-long unsupervised excursion to an unpopulated beach. And that's
** At one point, using the magic of the titular ship, they bring a girl from medieval England back with them to the 1930s; their parents (and servants) happily let her live with them for ''weeks'' without more than a token query about her origins and parents.
* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' carefully averts the trope; the heroes constantly have to make up excuses and lie about supervision for their absences from home, or even get [[Robot Buddy|substitutes for themselves]].
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* ''[[The Hardy Boys]]'' and ''[[Nancy Drew]].'' Now Frank and Joe are 16 and 18, but in the earlier editions they were 13 and 15.
* ''[[The Boxcar Children (Literature)|The Boxcar Children]]'' series is essentially built on this trope. The children's independence is not only allowed, but encouraged, by their grandfather (who [[Raised By Grandparents|raises them]]). Henry and Jessie, the two oldest, are only 14 and 12, but they usually seem more like high schoolers and act basically as parent figures to Violet and Benny, the two youngest--who are 10 and 6, but also act older. Throughout the series, they've done such varied things as camping out, exploring the Arizona desert, and even caving, all without a lick of supervision.
* [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[Tom Sawyer|The Adventures of
* Any of the Douglas stories by [[Ray Bradbury]].
* Any book by [[E Nesbit]].
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* In ''[[The Roman Mysteries (Literature)|The Roman Mysteries]]'' the four main characters border on this trope, and cross the line into it during several books.
* In [[Alisa Selezneva]] books, the heroine is this. Apparently by 22th century children got some freedom back (or at least Alisa did).
* ''[[The Magic Treehouse]]'' series averts the trope by having no time pass while the treehouse takes them anywhere or anytime in the world.
* Justified in ''[[The Thirteenth Tale (Literature)|The Thirteenth Tale]]''. Before they have a governess, Emmeline and Adeline go wherever they want to in the village because the Missus and John-the-dig are too busy taking care of a huge house and too old to keep up with them.
* Most of the Stark kids in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', since they have a tendency to be separated from their parents for long periods of time. Rickon, the youngest Stark at 3 years old, practically becomes feral along with his direwolf Shaggydog. {{spoiler|Arya has to flee from the Lannisters at the end of the first book when Ned is killed and Bran eventually leaves Winterfell with the Reeds and Hodor.}}
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