She is great at coming up with stories, plays, making costumes, and generally keeping everyone-no matter the age or background-fully entertained. Mainly because she is creative in many ways. Many of them are arrogant and condescending to the rest of the world, but they are good to Polly because they adore her. In spite of her humble beginnings and life goals, Polly has plenty of society girlfriends. She very much wants to be a piano teacher. Even though this is an era in which upperclass women did not work, presumably because Polly was not born upperclass, and her mother works at a job, Polly's goal is to have a job when she grows up, too. Polly has been taking piano lessons, and because she practices constantly and is passionate about her music, she has become quite proficient. He has adopted the Peppers informally and the five Pepper children call him 'Grandpapa.' The Peppers have been living in the King family's Boston mansion in wealth and splendor, but the high life has not spoiled them.

Pepper has been working in these intervening years as housekeeper to rich Mr. This book contains more adventures of the Pepper family of five children and their widowed mother, whom they call 'Mamsie.' We are told it is five years after Book 1, however, given the fact that Phronsie is only eight, in reality it is more like four years later. Fortunately, though, there are few typos, so the this version of the book is readable enough that I donated my paper copy to the library as I am gradually moving almost entirely to ebooks since I got my Kindle a year and a half ago. The formatting is not the most presentable I've ever seen in an ebook, mostly due to missing tabs and hard returns that are crucial for distinguishing paragraphs from each other. I was delighted to discover I could instantly download to my Kindle what I presume is the Project Gutenberg free version of this children's classic. Book 1 is Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.

This is Book 2 in the Five Little Peppers series of nineteenth century children's books.

Review of the Project Gutenberg Free eBook Edition of this nineteenth-century children's classic,

Five little peppers books in order