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Maureen Daly

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born

March 15, 1921 in Castlecaufield, County Tyrone, Ireland

died

September 24, 2006

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Maureen Daly, a writer whose first novel, “Seventeenth Summer,” anticipated the young-adult genre by decades when it appeared in 1942 and has endured as a classic coming-of-age story, died on Monday in Palm Desert, Calif. She was 85 and made her home in Palm Desert.

Maureen Daly, about 1942.
The cause was non-Hodgkins lymphoma, her sister, Sheila Daly White, said.

Written when Ms. Daly was a teenager and published while she was still in college, “Seventeenth Summer” told the story of Angie and Jack, two teenagers who fall in love during one enchanted summer in a Wisconsin lakeside town. Written in a straightforward, unpretentious style, the book is full of innocent pastimes — boating on the lake, Cokes at the corner drugstore — mingled with m...more

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Books by Maureen Daly

Average rating: 3.09 · 1,319 ratings · 236 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Seventeenth Summer 3.08 avg rating — 1,284 ratings — published 1942 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Small War of Sergeant Donkey 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Acts of Love 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	First a Dream 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Moroccan Roundabout 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Understanding Early Years Theory In Practice 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Seventeenth Summer 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	My Favorite Mystery Stories 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966	My rating:
	The Ginger Horse by Maureen Daly, Wesley Dennis (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1964	My rating:
	Early Years Management In Practice by Maureen Daly, Wendy Taylor 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Maureen Daly

“When I eat, everything tastes so good I can't get all the taste out of it; when I look at something-say, the lake-the waves are so green and the foam so white that it seems I can't look at it hard enough; there seems to be something there that I can't get at. And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

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Which book would you like to read for our June themed selection?

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

6 votes 35.3%

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

5 votes 29.4%

The Last Summer by Ann Brashares

4 votes 23.5%

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

1 vote 5.9%

Summer Girls by Hailey Abbott

1 vote 5.9%

Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly

0 votes 0.0%

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