Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The Surprise Book was Marjorie’s, but it really belonged to Dotty also, Marjorie said. It was Dotty who had made it once upon a time when she had not been able to go to school because of a snowstorm and a snuffy cold. The combination of cold and snowstorm was more or less a lu...
The Surprise Book was Marjorie’s, but it really belonged to Dotty also, Marjorie said. It was Dotty who had made it once upon a time when she had not been able to go to school b...
2. Part 2When daddy had taken the letters to the poor children in his overcoat pocket to mail, Mary Louise fell to planning about the gifts. Only one little girl--all boys! How dreadful!...
3. Part 3“And I would buy more than one,” Angelina would smile. “There is one of a pussy-cat like ours. I would give it to Marguerite Santos and I would give her many others beside.”
4. Part 4It was true. There was not always enough. Louisa and Angelina knew it. They could well understand the little brown bird’s joy at finding plenty to eat. It was good to have a hea...
5. Part 5Daddy didn’t ask about reports. Mamie Bates decided to wait and give the bad news out when she herself was a little more used to it. Perhaps next day, she could do it. Of course...
6. Part 6Sue felt rather obstinate. She decided that she _would_ go down cellar even if Solita left her. She tried to close the little window that looked down the long slope of the roof...
7. Part 7Marjorie and Richard looked at each other. _Was it true?_ “Let _us_ see,” they urged. Richard did peek. He said he couldn’t see very clearly but that there was something there t...
8. Part 8Mary Elizabeth paused. “Then I grew bigger, and by and by there were all the children and the baby, and I was the oldest and we all thought that a funny friend who was a jolly o...