
Peggy is a bright, restless girl whose boundless energy turns a simple house‑moving into a small adventure. As her family packs up the old, spacious home where they were raised, they are also coping with the loss of their father—a country doctor who died in the war. The arrival of a new physician promises to fill the empty practice, while their grandmother from New York offers Peggy a chance at a better education if the family can make the transition work.
Against the backdrop of a bleak March garden and a shy cat named Lady Jane Grey, Peggy’s curiosity about the future grows. She loves the lively world outside dolls and daydreams about the cherry tree she’ll soon see, the vegetables she’ll help tend, and the new school that might open doors for her. As the boxes are labeled and the old books sorted, the children stand on the brink of change, eager to discover what lies beyond the familiar walls of their former home.
Language
en
Duration
~3 hours (179K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2007-03-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1856–1947
Best remembered for writing warm, imaginative books for young readers, this New England author also published poetry and short fiction. Her stories often carry a gentle, everyday charm that helped make her a familiar name in late 19th- and early 20th-century children's literature.
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