Maida's Little School

Pages: 245
Published: 1926
Language: English

The happy children at Maida's Little House dread the coming of school days. And even when Maida's father promises them a new kind of school of their very own, they still wish their good times could last forever. Little do they guess when delightful "Mr. Lafayette" who can speak nothing but French, and their beloved "Bunny" who writes stories for children, and dashing young "Robin Hood," just back from a scientific expedition to the Arctic, come to "visit them awhile" that they are really attending "Maida's Little School." [from dust jacket]

Prose complexity: 1/10

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Inez Haynes Gillmore

Inez Haynes was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1873, the daughter of Gideon and Emma Jane (Hopkins) Haynes. Her parents, who were from Boston, returned to the U.S. during her childhood and she was raised in Boston. In 1897 she married her first husband, Rufus Hamilton Gillmore, a newspaperman who supported her feminism. While at Radcliffe (1897-1900), she became involved in the women's suffrage movement. Her first novel, June Jeopardy, was published in 1908. Her first marriage ended in divor...