The Little Colonel is back, and this
time she's a maid of honor. Her friend Eugenia is getting married, and the
whole wedding party has come to stay at Lloyd's house. The old fashioned term
for this kind of extended sleep-over/get-together is a -house party.-
Reading Ms. Johnston's version of the delightful events leading up to the
wedding is like traveling back to the time of slow summer days and long, white
cotton dresses.
In this story readers will be introduced to Mary Ware, the wild girl from
Arizona who has traveled all the way to Kentucky for...

Following her successful house party, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel,
finds her friends returning to their homes as the end of the summer approaches,
signaling the beginning of the school year.
While Joyce, Eugenia, and Betty return to their homes, the Little Colonel
begins to regret having met her friends, due to the loneliness of having to lose
them again.
But as Christmas approaches, the Little Colonel finds herself volunteering at
the childreni1/2s hospital where, through her dying friend, Dot, she learns the
true meaning of the holidays and...

Because of an illness in the family that her mother has to attend to, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, is shipped off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky.

During the semester, the Little Colonel becomes friends with Ida Shane, founds a Shadow Club to raise money for the poor, and attends her very first Halloween masquerade.

But as the Little Colonel returns home to her loving family and awaits the beginning of the New Year, she learns the most important lesson of her time away at school: absence makes the heart grow fonder....