Because of an illness in the family that her mother has to attend to, LloydSherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being shipped off to boarding schoolfrom her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky.Over the semester the Little Colonel makes a new friend in Ida Shane, foundsa Shadow Club to raise money for the poor, and attends her very first Halloweenmasquerade.But as the Little Colonel returns home to her loving family and awaits thedawning of the new year, she learns the true importance of the absence thatmakes the heart grow fonder.
