Books with title Five Little Peppers, Abroad

“Come on, Pepper.” One of the boys rushed down the dormitory hall, giving a bang on Joel's door as he passed. “All right,” said Joel a bit crossly, “I'm coming.” “Last bell,” came back on the wind. Joel threw his tennis racket on the bed, and scowled. Just then a flaxen head peeped in, and two big eyes stared at him. “Ugh!”—Joel took one look—“off with you, Jenkins.” Jenkins withdrew at once. Joel jumped up and slammed the door hard, whirled around in vexation, sprang over and thrust the tennis racket under the bed, seized a dog-eared book, and plunged off, taking the precaution, despite his hurry, to shut the door fast behind him. Jenkins stole out of his room three doors beyond, and as the hall was almost deserted about this hour, so many boys being in recitation, he had nothing to do but tiptoe down to Joel's room and go softly in. “Hullo!” A voice behind made him skip. “Oh, Berry,”—it was a tone of relief,—“it's you.” “Um,” said Berry, “what's up now, Jenk?” He tossed back his head, while a smile of delight ran all over his face. “Hush—come here.” Jenk had him now within Joel's room and the door shut. “We'll have fun with the beggar now.” “Who—Dave?” “Dave? No. Who wants to haul him over?” cried Jenk in scorn. “You are a flat, Berry, if you think that.” “Well, you are a flat, if you think to tackle Joe,” declared Berry with the air and tone of one who knows. “Better let him alone, after what you got last term.” “Well, I ain't going to let him alone,” declared Jenk angrily, and flushing all up to his shock of light hair; “and I gave him quite as good as he gave me, I'd have you know, Tom Beresford.” “Hoh, hoh!” Tom gave a howl of derision, and slapped his knee in pure delight. “Tell that to the marines, sonny,” he said.

Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper sews 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 in which courage and good cheer overcome adversity.

Five Little Peppers Midway is the delightful and amusing follow up of the story of the family of Pepper. A haughty and lofty relative arrives to stay for the meantime with the Peppers, and although it is quite distressing this cannot sadden the happiness the Pepper youngsters’ emotions of the amazing probability of Mamsie's future marriage. Five Little Peppers Midway contains the following: Phronsie's Pie; Cousin Eunice Chatterton; The Rehearsal; Welcome Home!; After the Play; The Little Brown House; Old Times Again; Some Badgertown Calls; A Sudden Blow; The Party Separates; Poor Polly!; New Work for Polly; A Piece of News; Mamsie's Wedding; Mrs. Chatterton Has a New Plan; Where Is Phronsie?; Phronsie Is Found; The Girls Have Polly Again; Phronsie Is Well Again; The Secret; The Whitneys' Little Plan; Joel; Of Many Things; and Away. Margaret Sidney was the fictitious name of US author Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop. Aside from her famous tales for little kids, she manages her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing house after de died. Then they purchased The Wayside country house, they labored well to form it an institution of literary career. She also wrote: So as by Fire; Half Year at Bronckton; The Pettibone Name, a novel of New England life; What the Seven Did; Who Told it to Me; Ballad of the Lost Hare; The Golden West; How they Went to Europe; Hester, and other New England Stories; The Minute-Man; Two Modern Little Princes; Dilly and the Captain; St. George and the Dragon; The Judges' Cave; Being a Romance of the New Haven Colony in the Days of the Regicides, 1661; A Little Maid of Concord Town, on a patriotic theme; A Little Maid of Boston Town, also on a patriotic theme; and some other interesting stories.

Play script dramatized by Rosemary G. Musil, from the book of Margaret Sidney. Highly amusing comedy. Two sets. Modern costumes. Cast of 3 women, 2 men, 9 children.Retaining the full flavour, and all the well-remembered incidents of the original story, Rosemary Musil has given this play a sense of humour which is not only modern, but also perennial. The five Pepper children at home are always getting into mischief, and having to be helped out of it by Grandma Bascomb. But when they join forces with the wealthy Whitney children, the fun is intensified, for the Whitneys are of a mischievous turn themselves. The play illustrates the good American tenet that poor with ambition may better themselves, and that rich people recognize an obligation to help others. Modern children will love the Peppers just as their grandparents did.

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