Margaret Sidney

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew was originally serialized in an 1880 edition of Wide Awake, a children's magazine. The publisher of the magazine, Daniel Lothrop, loved the Pepper stories so much that he published a hard-cover edition of the story -- and married the author in 1881. In 1883 the couple moved to …

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Outside she could hear the ¿two boys ¿ as she still called them and Grandpapa¿s voice in animated consultation over the ways and means she knew as well as if she were there of spending the holidays and it seemed as if she could never sit in the reception room another moment longer but that she must fly out to them.

While her brothers are away at boarding school, Polly Pepper and her classmates are involved in a train accident that leaves the brakeman's wife a widow, so Polly tries to raise money for the brakeman's family