Overview
The Beany Malone Series by Lenora Mattingly Weber. The 14 Book Collection includes: Meet the Malones Beany Malone Leave It to Beany Beany and the Beckoning Road Beany Has a Secret Life Make a Wish for Me Happy Birthday, Dear Beany The More the Merrier A Bright Star Falls Welcome Stranger Pick a New Dream Tarry Awhile Something Borrowed, Something Blue Come Back, Wherever You Are. The Malones of Denver, Colorado are a warm open-hearted family with a welcoming home, open to friends and all others in need of physical and emotional nourishment. The series has the warmth and sense of solidarity intrinsic of wartimes and the post-war era. There is a general feeling of peace and simplicity. When the series opens, the Malone children are motherless. The father, Martie Malone, is often absent due to his duties as editor of the Denver Call. Three of the four Malone children, Mary Fred, Johnny and Beany, live at home. The oldest Malone daughter, the beautiful, loving Elizabeth, has been married to Lieutenant Donald McCallin for one year. The Malones live on Barberry Street in a large, wide-bosomed gray stone home. Their surrounding neighbors are Mrs. Morrison Adams (known as Mrs. Socially-prominent Adams) in her red brick home with immaculate white trim and frilly curtains in the windows, and the imposing and stately home of the Judge Buell family. Deluxe Softcover Editions: Unabridged with original cover art. Size approx. 5.90 by 8.90 inches.