Under the Lilacs
Louisa May Alcott
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When two young girls decide to have a tea party with their dolls and a mysterious dog comes and eats their prized cake, they end up finding a circus run-away, Ben Brown. Ben is a horse master, and loves horses, so when the Moss' take the young boy in, they decide to give him work at the neighbors house driving cows (on a horse, of course). After that a series of events happens, and Ben finds out his beloved father is dead. Miss Celia, a neighbor, feels sorry and comforts him, and finally offers to let Ben stay with her and her fourteen-year-old brother, Thornton who is called Thorny. After that many adventures and summer-happenings go on in Celia's house. Sancho gets lost, Ben is accused of stealing, Miss Celia even gets hurt and Ben takes a wild ride on his horse, and… The rest you'll know from reading the book.
Summary by Wikipedia, revised by Stav Nisser.
Book Coordinators: Stav Nisser and Diana Majlinger (7 hr 21 min)
Chapitres
| A Mysterious Dog | 17:03 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Where They Found His Master | 11:38 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Ben | 12:52 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| His Story | 10:48 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Ben Gets A Place | 13:50 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| A Circulating Library | 8:41 | Lu par Chelsea Baker |
| New Friends Trot In | 14:47 | Lu par Chelsea Baker |
| Miss Celia's Man | 13:57 | Lu par Elizabeth Klett |
| A Happy Tea | 17:46 | Lu par Elizabeth Klett |
| A Heavy Trouble | 14:35 | Lu par Xenutia |
| Sunday | 31:32 | Lu par Amy Benton |
| Good Times | 21:36 | Lu par Amy Benton |
| Somebody Runs Away | 25:04 | Lu par kiwafruit |
| Somebody Gets Lost | 31:53 | Lu par Linda Ferguson |
| Ben's Ride | 25:01 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Detective Thornton | 23:20 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Betty's Bravery | 21:26 | Lu par BookAngel7 |
| Bows and Arrows | 14:32 | Lu par BookAngel7 |
| Speaking Pieces | 17:08 | Lu par BookAngel7 |
| Ben's Birthday | 18:19 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Cupid's Last Appearance | 20:26 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| A Boy's Bargain | 17:43 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| Somebody Comes | 17:20 | Lu par MaryAnn |
| The Great Gate Is Opened | 20:09 | Lu par MaryAnn |
Critiques
Excellent!
Pink Blossom
Excellent story! No drowning of kittens or harming animals in this story like some other old stories you read about. Only one about a cat and mice. That's completely natural though. Such a heartwarming story. Teaches kids important lesson too. This Author is one of my all time favorites she is so kind and teaches kids in such a sweet and kind way. She is even so kind to animals.
great story
Amanda
I enjoyed the story and so did my girls. I do prefer 1 reader for the whole book, otherwise I would have given 5 stars. thankfully all the readers read clearly enough to understand, although 1 was not as clear. I would definitely recommend this book though.
Great story for any age
TLocke
A story similar to many of Ms Alcott works. A bit more of a boy's adventure, but great female characters as well. well read.
Lovely
Lizelle Gordon
Heartwarming story with many endearing characters. Narration very good in spite of the various readers.
A LibriVox Listener
The variety of narrators was a bit distracting but a wonderful story nonetheless.
Kayshy
What a lovely story! Well read by a number of Readers, it ranks up there as one of my favorites by Louisa May Alcott. I have never read this story before, and found myself wanting to listen more than I had time for. Lovely story.
Eliza Vickers
I loved this book!!!! It so cute cute!! I love the little scrapes they get in and the fun times they have together! I also love the coming home of Sancho and Mr. Brown.
beautiful childrens book
students Sanders
the readers switch several times which normally annoys me greatly but all of them were good and for whatever reason it didn't bother me with this book