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Not as good as the original, but a nice follow-up to the original Five Little Peppers.
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Five Little Peppers #2
Five Little Peppers Midway
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Five years after the events in The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, the Peppers are living with Mr. King in his grand mansion, but his spiteful cousin seems determined to spoil their happiness.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1890
This edition
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256 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1987 by Yearling
- ISBN
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9780440425892
- ASIN
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0440425891
- Language
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English
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This book did not get a lot of good reviews, and lots of people say it is racist, but remember that this book was written quite a while ago! It is ok if you didn't like it, this series isn't my favorite, but it is still good. I have read the first book and I think my favorite so far is the third one. So overall, I believe this book is pretty good.
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Not as amazing as the first book, but related to the first book, so I had to read it.
Now for the other ten follow-ups!
*sigh*
Now for the other ten follow-ups!
*sigh*
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Though this is considerably shorter than the first book, it lost none of the homey, fun qualities that made it enjoyable. I look forward to reading much more about the Peppers, Whitneys, and Kings.
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I loved the first book when I was little, mostly because my mother had loved it as a child, and her mother. The first book is definitely the strongest; the others are fine, episodic Victorian family stories, with all the requisite didacticism, melodrama, and saccharine emotions. Just go in expecting that, and you'll be fine. This one, in particular, I just couldn't tell the children apart, not surprising since there were nine of them! Hard to make that many characters distinct, and Sidney tried, but the boys were still interchangeable. Also, the representation of the black cook in the first chapter is fairly offensive to modern sensibilities.
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Five years after the Five Little Peppers and How They Grew comes this exciting sequel. It was fun to learn what happened to the Peppers after they came to live with the Kings and how they adjusted from being poor to living in a high-class society. The characters turned out to be pretty much how I thought they would, but I am disappointed in Polly's friends. They are rude and mean to everyone, including each other, except for Polly. I thought that Polly would find better friends because she is so lovely to everyone, but she didn't. Five Little Peppers Midway was a pretty short book, but it was very delightful nonetheless. I recommend this book to all ages and think this is a definite must-read in the Five Little Peppers Series.
Things to mention: There are a robbery and some broken bones.
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Five years after the Five Little Peppers and How They Grew comes this exciting sequel. It was fun to learn what happened to the Peppers after they came to live with the Kings and how they adjusted from being poor to living in a high-class society. The characters turned out to be pretty much how I thought they would, but I am disappointed in Polly's friends. They are rude and mean to everyone, including each other, except for Polly. I thought that Polly would find better friends because she is so lovely to everyone, but she didn't. Five Little Peppers Midway was a pretty short book, but it was very delightful nonetheless. I recommend this book to all ages and think this is a definite must-read in the Five Little Peppers Series.
Things to mention: There are a robbery and some broken bones.
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The five Pepper siblings have a lovely life living with Mr. King in his mansion. They are all studying hard, but Polly studies harder than anyone, practicing her music so she can be a music teacher someday. When Mr. King's cranky relation Mrs. Chatterton comes to stay, she makes trouble for the whole family. She is rude to Polly, treating her like a servant. She complains that Mr. King's grandchildren will learn dirty habits from the Pepper boys. Finally, she convinces little Phronsie to run errands for her, resulting in a disaster that affects the whole family.
This is such a sweet and wholesome story! I love all the cute little Pepper children. The writing is charming, and the story is simple but interesting. I especially liked hearing about the preparations for Mrs. Pepper's wedding. Mr. King wants a big wedding with a huge party for all their friends, but Polly insists that a smaller wedding would make her mother and her new stepfather happier. It's just like Polly to think of her mother's happiness before anybody else's.
I also liked that storyline about Phronsie and her two-hundred dolls! How any child could accumulate so many dolls is utterly ridiculous, and she says that she doesn't have time to play with them all anyway. I liked the scene where she gives them away to poor children, but her brothers can't believe it!
This is such a sweet and wholesome story! I love all the cute little Pepper children. The writing is charming, and the story is simple but interesting. I especially liked hearing about the preparations for Mrs. Pepper's wedding. Mr. King wants a big wedding with a huge party for all their friends, but Polly insists that a smaller wedding would make her mother and her new stepfather happier. It's just like Polly to think of her mother's happiness before anybody else's.
I also liked that storyline about Phronsie and her two-hundred dolls! How any child could accumulate so many dolls is utterly ridiculous, and she says that she doesn't have time to play with them all anyway. I liked the scene where she gives them away to poor children, but her brothers can't believe it!
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We love this series! This edition wasn't our favorite because it wasn't illustrated and my kids are still young. They love pictures. But with time they settled in and loved the story just as much as the first one. Sweet, charming, surprising, and a bit dramatic. There is so much to learn and discuss about the different life of the early 1900s. Such a great series!
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