Laddie: A True Blue Story
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About This Book
Loosely based on Stratton-Porter's own childhood,Laddieis a double tale—the classic poor-boy/rich-girl romance and the story of a child of nature and her idyllic childhood.
Chapters (24)
- LADDIE
- A TRUE BLUE STORY
- GENE STRATTON-PORTER
- To LEANDER ELLIOT STRATTON "The Way to Be Happy Is to Be Good"
- LADDIE
- CHARACTERS
- CHAPTER I Little Sister
- CHAPTER II Our Angel Boy
- CHAPTER III Mr. Pryor's Door
- CHAPTER IV The Last Day in Eden
- CHAPTER V The First Day of School
- CHAPTER VI The Wedding Gown
- CHAPTER VII When Sally Married Peter
- CHAPTER VIII The Shropshire and the Crusader
- CHAPTER IX "Even So"
- CHAPTER X Laddie Takes the Plunge
- CHAPTER XI Keeping Christmas Our Way
- CHAPTER XII The Horn of the Hunter
- CHAPTER XIII The Garden of the Lord
- CHAPTER XIV The Crest of Eastbrooke
- CHAPTER XV Laddie, the Princess, and the Pie
- CHAPTER XVI The Homing Pigeon
- CHAPTER XVII In Faith Believing
- CHAPTER XVIII The Pryor Mystery
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