“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Joel and Davie Pepper are away at boarding school trying to learn manners and self-reliance while their sister Polly must cope with gossips and snobs at her school. But when a terrible train accident leaves the brakeman's wife a widow with children to sup
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the
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. A Dell Yearling Classic.
