Five Little Peppers and How They Grew »

Margaret Sidney's real name was Harriett Stone (1844-1924). She was born in Connecticut and authored twelve books about the Pepper clan. She is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Massachusetts.

Mrs. Pepper, a widow, and her five children lived in a plain little brown house where she struggled to feed and clothe her lively brood. The family had little in the way of luxury and hardly any of the things that many of us today take for granted, But they had such fun and good times together and loved one another so dearly that when a very rich little boy discovered the warmth and happiness that flooded the little brown house he felt himself lucky to be in it. And as it turned out, his coming brought luck to the Five Little Peppers too.

CONTENTS

Foreword

1 A Home View

2 Making Happiness for Mamsie

3 Mamsie's Birthday

4 Trouble for the Little Brown House

5 More Trouble

6 Hard Days for Polly

7 The Cloud over the Little Brown House

8 Joel's Turn

9 Sunshine Again

10 A Threatened Blow

11 Safe

12 New Friends

13 Phronsie Pays a Debt of Gratitude

14 A Letter to Jasper

15 Jolly Days

16 Getting a Christmas for the Little Ones

17 Christmas Bells!

18 Education Ahead

19 Brave Work and the Reward

20 Polly Is Comforted

21 Phronsie

22 Getting Ready for Mamsie and the Boys

23 Which Treats of a Good Many Matters

24 Polly's Dismal Morning

25 Polly's Big Bundle

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