Description
The Adventures of Joel Pepper is the fifth book in Margaret Sidney’s popular children’s story series entitled Five Little Peppers. Just like the first volume entitled Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and the following four stories, each of which focuses on one member of the Pepper family, this book also tells the adventures of the Pepper family consisting of Mamsie, a widowed mother and her five children, while focusing on one member especially, the wild and unruly boy named Joel.The plot of The Adventures of Joel Pepper takes place five years after the story of the first book ends. In these five years, Mamsie has been working as the housekeeper of a wealthy gentleman who treats the family as his own. The Peppers live on the mansion of Mamsie’s employer and the reader finds out not only about their living circumstances, but about the interests and the adventures of the children, too. Joel is thirteen at the beginning of the story and he is the same impulsive boy as he was in the first story. His attitude and his passionate disposition makes life significantly more difficult for him that it is for his siblings, but it is exactly this attitude that keeps the story going, animating the entire household.The Adventures of Joel Pepper was first published in 1900. The author decided to end the series with the fourth book entitled The Stories Polly Pepper Told, she even stated so in the preface to the book, but then so many fans of the series expressed their disappointment with the author’s decision that she decided to continue the family saga. Six more Pepper novels followed the book about Joel’s adventures, the series enjoying continued success. The last novel was published in 1916, when the author was 68 years old.
Product ID: 9781776667987
Sku: JT-G0PQ-X01Z
