Five Little Peppers
And How They Grew
by Margaret Sidney
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Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper has to sew all day long just to earn enough to pay the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a stout heart, a smiling face, and the help of her jolly brood: blue-eyed Ben, the eldest and the man of the house at the age of 11; pretty Polly, so eager to cook for the family and make everyone happy and comfortable; and the three littlest Peppers, Joel, Davie, and baby Phronsie.
A favorite of children, parents, and teachers for generations, this heartwarming classic first appeared in 1880. Since then, it has inspired countless young imaginations with its tender tales of the ways in which courage and good cheer can overcome adversity.
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Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Family life, Brothers and sisters, Poverty, Single-parent families, History, Family, New England, Children's stories, Families, Children's fiction, Children, fiction, Fiction, general, Family life, fiction, New england, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Poverty, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Family, fiction, Growth, Siblings, fiction, Five Little Peppers (Fictitious characters)Places
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Aladdin Classics)
June 6, 2006, Aladdin
Paperback
in English
1416916172 9781416916178
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Five little Peppers and how they grew
1976, [Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
in English
0688417752 9780688417758
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Five Little Peppers: And How They Grew
1963, Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Hardcover
in English
- #5459 Companion Library Edition
0448054590 9780448054599
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Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of American author Harriett Mulford Stone (June 22, 1844–August 2, 1924).
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First Sentence
"THE LITTLE OLD KITCHEN HAD QUIETED DOWN FROM the bustle and confusion of midday; and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday aspect that, as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently proper it should have."
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A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
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