Books with title Five Little Peppers at School

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Book Excerpt: ...nded with a wild hope of taking home a prize in classics for Mamsie!"Everything's just beautiful this term!" he hummed to himself. And then, in a breathing space he was in his room, and there, well drawn behind the door, was a boy with big eyes. "Hush" he warned."What's the matter?" asked David in astonishment, "and where's Joel?""Oh, don't speak his name; he's in disgrace. Oh, it's perfectly awful!" The boy huddled up in a heap, and tried to shut the door."Who?" cried David, not believing his ears."Joel--oh dear! it's perfectly awful!""Stop saying it's perfectly awful, Bates, and tell me what's the matter." Davie felt faintish, and sat down on the shoe-box.Bates shut the door with a clap, and then came to stand over him, letting the whole information out with a rush."He's pitched into Jenk--and they've had a fight--and they're all blood--and the old Fox almost got 'em both." Then he shut his mouth suddenly, the whole being told....

The story of young people's lives is not complete without many and broad glimpses of their school days. It was impossible to devote the space to this recital of the Five Little Peppers' school life, in the books that showed their growing up. The author, therefore, was obliged unwillingly to omit all the daily fun and study and growth, that she, loving them as if they were real children before her eyes, saw in progress. So she packed it all away in her mind, ready to tell to all those young people who also loved the Peppers, when they clamored for more stories about them-just what Polly and Joel and David did in their merry school days. Ben never got as much schooling as the others, for he insisted on getting into business life as early as possible, in order the sooner to begin to pay Grandpapa King back for all his kindness. But Jasper and Percy and Van joined the Peppers at school, and a right merry time they had of it!

Joel and Davie at a school for boys, Polly, Phronsie and Ben at their house. The plot focuses among the boys and girls, till the boys revisited for the vacation and all the kids are strangled up in preparations to give support to the indigenous family of a brakeman who died in a collision. At the same time, Polly make efforts to help Jasper's buddy from being dropped out, Phronsie has a scary mishap and Ben worked to recompense Mr. King. Five Little Peppers at School includes: Hard Times for Joel; The Tennis Match; A Narrow Escape; Of Various Things; At Silvia Horne's; The Accident; The Salisbury Girls; "We're to have our picnic!"; All About the Poor Brakeman; Joel and his Dog; The United Clubs; Some Every-Day Fun; The Picnic; Miss Salisbury's Story; The Broken Vase; New Plans; Phronsie; Tom's Story; The Grand Entertainment; The Corcoran Family; At the Play; Pickering Dodge; The Clemcy Garden Party; The Piece of News; and "The Very Prettiest Affair". 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.