Christina and the boys

A shy country child raised by her nurse experiences a series of small adventures and domestic upheavals after new boys join the household, including a pugnacious young stepbrother. Episodic scenes—garden play, a summer row, a winter picnic, a ghostly scare, a journey to the city and becoming lost in fog, and household tensions over belongings and responsibility—probe her fears, loyalties, and growing courage. Encounters with peers, elders, and servants prompt gentle moral lessons about bravery, kindness, and social duty, while humor and mild peril shape an intimate coming-of-age portrait set in a turn-of-the-century domestic world.