As one of the gifts for her eleventh birthday Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, is given permission to hold her very own house party. She invites her closest friends from all over the country--Eugenia Forbes of New York City, Joyce Ware of Plainsville, Kansas, and Beth Lewis of Jaynes, Kentucky--to her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky for her special event. Over the course of the weekend the four girls learn that, though they are very different, they all have much in common, and also teach each other the true meaning of friendship.
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The Little Colonel's House Party
Johnston planned to complete the series several times, once after The Little Colonel's House Party, again after The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding. Always, public demand compelled Johnston to continue.
The Little Colonel at Boarding School
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Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931) was an American author of children's fiction who wrote the popular "Little Colonel" series, which formed the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film "The Little Colonel."
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking "Did Betty go blind?" "Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find the Gate of the ...
But as Christmas approaches, the Little Colonel finds herself volunteering at the children's hospital where, through her dying friend Dot, she learns the true meaning of the holidays and of friendship. Book jacket.
The childish adventures of Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, come to an end in The Little Colonel s Knight Comes Riding, the last in the Little Colonel series.