Books Summary
Chapter # 1
Old title: September 1908
New title: Baby Bloomin’ in the Garden
Précis for chapter: Katy, age six, constantly compares her experiences with those of her friend and neighbor, Austin. She thinks he is “fibbing” when he claims his new baby sister was found in a garden, but Katy’s own mother confirms Austin’s story.
Chapter # 2
Old Title: September 1910
New Title: Need
Précis for chapter: Katy likes to know more about people in need. This includes Peggy, the girl who comes to work for Katy’s family, and Jacob, Peggy’s unusual younger brother. Peggy tells Katy that Jacob is 13 and that he is "touched in the head"(mentally ill). Katy tells Peggy why she will enjoy living with the Thatcher family.
Chapter # 3
Old title: October 1910
New title: “Shooda, Shooda, Shooda”
Précis for chapter: Katy and her father run into Jacob on the side of the road on their way to the mill. They pick him up and take him there too. He loved the horses and the sound of the grindstone moving over the grain. He made the sound of “Shooda, shooda, shooda” mimicking the sound of the grindstone. When Katy, Jacob, and Katy’s father got to the mill, he takes them into a room where he does doctoring. He shows Jacob and Katy a patient who needed stitches. Katy was very interested in it so she didn’t notice Jacob sneak off. When they found out he did they went to look for him and found him at the grindstones. They soon take Jacob back to the Stoltz farm and then go home.
Chapter # 4
Old Title: November 1910
New Title: Maternity Dresses
Précis for chapter: Katy and Peggy talk about Jacob when getting ready for school. They talk about how he doesn’t have to go to school and how he loved animals. Katy finds a catalogue that she likes and picks out dresses that she wants. She shows it to Peggy but Peggy tells her to put it back on the page her mother had it on—the maternity dress page. Katy is confused by this so her father takes her to his office and explains that her mother is having a baby.
Chapter # 5
Old Title: December 1910
New Title: The First Snowfall
Précis for chapter: Katy wakes up to the first snow of the season. She goes out to sled and her father goes off to work with his patients. Soon after Katy goes out, Nellie (Peggy’s sister), asks Katy if she could let Peggy come out and play. Peggy could so they all went sledding except Peggy and Katy went on the baby hill.
Chapter # 6
Old Title: January 1911
New Title: The Bright Tin Pale
Précis for chapter: Nellie came over to talk with Peggy about “grown up girl” things, in which Katy was not allowed to join into. She went to complain to her mother and found her doing a memory book. Her mother showed her a picture of two little girls standing next to each other looking unhappy. She asked Katy if she remembered this picture and Katy did. She thought about that day and how she was jealous of her friend Jessie’s bright pail, and how she hid from her parents and observing the world from afar.
Chapter # 7
Old Title: February 1911
New Title: Burned to the Ground
Précis for chapter: Katy’s father came home with the news of the mill being burned to the ground. Some people blamed Jacob for the fire but it was really a late worker lighting a cigar and the dust from it exploded and soon after the mill was gone.
Chapter # 8
Old Title: March 1911
New Title: Touched in the Head
Précis for chapter: Katy was very bored so she asked if she could go with her father to the asylum. She waited outside of it while her father went in to help someone. She read and talked to the horses until she heard a scream. She got scared but still waited for her father to come out. When he did he explained to her how they scream to let out emotions.
Chapter # 9
Old Title: April 1911
New Title: Tragedy and Disaster!
Précis for chapter: Katy’s grandma came down for the baby. Katy went to pick her up at the train station. The next day Austin came over and they played a game tragedy and disaster. They played about two boats that collided in the ocean and were ruined.
Chapter # 10
Old Title: April 1911
New Title: Full of Surprises
Précis for chapter: Peggy took Katy on a surprise visit to the Stoltz farm. They went to the barn there and Jacob had a surprise for her, a kitten! They soon went to have and early dinner and Katy’s father called and told her that she had to come home. When she got home she went upstairs to her mother’s room to find a new baby sister.
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