The Little Colonel in Arizona — Annie Fellows Johnston

As the New Year dawns, the Ware children�Holland, Jack, Joyce, Mary, and
Norman�find themselves on a train to a boarding camp for their ill mother,
Mrs. Ware, in Maricopa, Arizona.
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Soon their friend Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, joins them in their cozy
wigwam home in the desert.
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After a harrowing experience being lost in the desert and her first
experience of romance with the Ware family�s friend Phil Tremont, the Little
Colonel returns to Dixie a braver and stronger young woman in excited
anticipation of her experiences still to come.