Books with author Annie F. Johnston

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Following her successful house party, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel,finds her friends returning to their homes as the end of the summer approaches,signaling the beginning of the school year.While Joyce, Eugenia, and Betty return to their homes, the Little Colonelbegins to regret having met her friends, due to the loneliness of having to losethem again.But as Christmas approaches, the Little Colonel finds herself volunteering atthe children's hospital where, through her dying friend, Dot, she learns thetrue meaning of the holidays and of friendship.

Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931) was an American author of children's fiction who wrote the popular "Little Colonel" series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel. She was born and grew up in McCutchanville, Indiana, a small unincorporated town near Evansville, Indiana.Excerpt:"Blackberries! blackberries!" called a shrill little voice on the platform. A barefoot girl, wearing a sunbonnet, passed under the car windows, holding up a basket full, that shone like great black beads. A gentleman who had just helped two ladies to alight from the stepsof a parlor car called to her and began to fumble in his pockets for the right change.

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As the New Year dawns, the Ware children'Holland, Jack, Joyce, Mary, andNorman'find themselves on a train to a boarding camp for their ill mother,Mrs. Ware, in Maricopa, Arizona.'Soon their friend Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, joins them in their cozywigwam home in the desert.'After a harrowing experience being lost in the desert and her firstexperience of romance with the Ware family's friend Phil Tremont, the LittleColonel returns to Dixie a braver and stronger young woman in excitedanticipation of her experiences still to come.