Five little Peppers and how they grew / Margaret Sidney ; [with a foreword by Ann M. Martin].
Material type: TextSeries: Aladdin classicsPublication details: New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006?Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperbacks edDescription: xiv, 335 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 1415676410 (Follettbound)
- 1416916172 (pbk.)
- 9781415676417 (Follettbound)
- 9781416916178 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Sidney Mar | Available | 33111006464792 |
"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.