For tonight's bedtime storytelling, I will be reading Chapter 2 from the Maida Book Series called  Maida’s Little Shop. This gentle story by Inez Haynes Irwin was published in 1909 and is about a sweet little girl named Maida who is sickly and lame. Her father is well known to be one of the wealthiest men in America. He decides to buy her a little shop in Charlestown Massachusetts, to give her a purpose and to help restore her health. However, he has one condition, that she not tell anyo...

Maida's Little Shop (Chapter 2)

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Maida's Little Shop (Chapter 2)

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