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100	1		_aTaggart, Marion Ames, _d1866-1945
245	1	4	_aThe queer little man
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe Jack-in-the-box books ; 2
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-10
508			_aDavid E. Brown, Sue Clark, Rod Crawford, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"The queer little man" by Marion Ames Taggart is a children's novel written in the early 20th century. Set in the small town of Greenacres, it follows four close friends—Mark Hawthorne, Isabel Lindsay, Prudence “Prue” Wayne, and fiery Poppy Meiggs—as they form a club, claim a “club room,” and throw themselves into home-made projects, woodland play, and gardening around the Hawthorne estate. Warm family bonds, a secret passage, and a gift horse named Hurrah color their days, while an unsettling legal threat to the Hawthornes’ home and fortune looms in the background. The opening of the story introduces the quartet on their “Opening Day,” when they claim an unused room as club headquarters and dream up adventures without a fixed plan. Their attempt to build furniture from packing cases falters, but they furnish the room with attic cast-offs from Isabel’s and Prue’s families. Poppy is swept into rapture when the kindly postmaster, Mr. Babcock, gives her an elderly but spirited horse and buckboard, Hurrah. Meanwhile, Mr. Hawthorne receives troubling word that Maurice Ditson is contesting the inheritance that restored the family home, a cloud that the children meet with loyalty and bravado. The friends christen themselves “the Lucky Four,” visit their pine-tree platform “Château Branche,” start individual garden plots, and cautiously allow two schoolmates, Kathie and Dolly, partial membership—stashing Kathie’s old coin collection as “buried treasure” in the house’s secret passage—while the threat to the beloved Hawthorne place quietly gathers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: George H. Doran Company, 1921
653			_aFriendship -- Juvenile fiction
653			_aChildren -- Societies and clubs -- Juvenile fiction
700	1		_aPeck, Anne Merriman, _d1884-1976
830		0	_aThe Jack-in-the-box books ; 2
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/queerlittleman00tagg
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78419
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