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Victoria
Timid, eleven-year-old Dylis Rattenbury, afraid to cross the street without holding someone's hand, idolizes bold, free-spirited, indifferent Victoria Corcoran. When both are sent to boarding school, Dylis is miserable at being separated from her parents, while Victoria seems only concerned that boarding school does not provide room service. With their two roommates she fo
...morePaperback, 224 pages
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by Dell Publishing Company
(first published January 1st 1972)
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If you love Harriet the Spy , you'll love this! The story is set in a boarding school and follows a group of girls lead by the crusty , arrogant Victoria who creates a secret organization ( the Victorians - modest isn't she? Well , in all truth it wasn't her idea. ) And with use of a mysterious black book Victoria relies on they attempt to change the hierarchy at school and improve their good fortune. But really it's also about shy Dilys , who is trying like mad to get a verbal affirmation out o...more
May 23, 2011
Michelle
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Recommends it for:
Young Adults
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read-as-child
I read this book as a young teen and then forgot about it until about 20-something years later when I ran across the word "hassock." I could picture Victoria's red hassock in my head, but couldn't remember why it was so familiar and attached to such a feeling of sadness as well. So I Googled the term and rediscovered this gem of a book. Read it for an entertaining and gut-wrenching journal through the life of a two young friends.
Apr 14, 2013
Renée Szostek
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read-as-a-child-or-an-adolescent
Mar 23, 2011
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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Jan 27, 2009
Meghan
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children-s,
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Award-winning American children's writer. Has received, among others, the NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for 'Claudia' (2001), as well as the William Allen White Children's Book Award for 'Peppermints in the Parlor' (1983).
Wallace was born and spent her childhood in China, but then moved to the United States. San Francisco was often a port of entry f...more
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Wallace was born and spent her childhood in China, but then moved to the United States. San Francisco was often a port of entry f...more
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