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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.
* 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.
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