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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Classic fiction
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Book 1 of the Five Little Peppers series
352 pages · First published 1881
The five Pepper children—Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and little Phronsie—live with their widowed mother in poverty but fill their small brown house with affection and energy. Polly’s determination to help Mamsie and the family’s willingness to share what little they have carry them through illness and daily hardship. Friendship with wealthy Jasper King gradually broadens their circumstances without erasing the family bonds formed in scarcity. Margaret Sidney’s nineteenth-century children’s classic is sentimental domestic fiction about resilience, sibling loyalty, and a household whose happiness is deliberately presented as richer than its finances.
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- 1 oz gin
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