Five little Peppers and how they grew /

Sidney, Margaret, 1844-1924.

Five little Peppers and how they grew / Margaret Sidney ; [with a foreword by Ann M. Martin]. - 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. - New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006? - xiv, 335 p. ; 20 cm. - Aladdin classics . - Aladdin classics .

"Includes reading group guide"--Cover.

Foreword -- A home view -- Making happiness for Mamsie -- Mamsie's birthday -- Trouble for the little brown house -- More trouble -- Hard days for Polly -- The cloud over the little brown house -- Joe's turn -- Sunshine again -- A threatened blow -- Safe -- New friends -- Phronsie pays a debt of gratitude -- A letter to Jasper -- Jolly days -- Getting a Christmas for the little ones -- Christmas bells! -- Education ahead -- Brave work and the reward -- Polly is comforted -- Phronsie -- Getting ready for Mamsie and the boys -- Which treats of a good many matters -- Polly's dismal morning -- Polly's big bundle -- An Aladdin reading group guide to Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.

In New England in the late nineteenth-century, a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman and his young son.

Ages 8-12.

1415676410 (Follettbound) 1416916172 (pbk.) 9781415676417 (Follettbound) 9781416916178 (pbk.)

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Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Families--New England--Juvenile fiction.
Poverty--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.


New England--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.

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