Campus Melody

Sally & Jean Burnaby #5

by Anne Emery

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Genres: Young Adult, Classics

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1955

About the author

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Anne Emery was born Anne Eleanor McGuigan, in Fargo, North Dakota, and moved to Evanston, Illinois, when she was nine years old. Miss McGuigan attended Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. Following her graduation from college, her father, a university professor, took the family of five children abroad for a year, where they visited his birthplace in Northern Ireland, as well as the British Isles, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Miss McGuigan spent nine months studying at the University of Grenoble in France. She taught seventh and eighth grades for four years in the Evanston Schools, and fourth and fifth grades for six more years after her marriage to John Emery. She retired from teaching to care for her husband and five children, Mary, Kate, Joan, Robert, and Martha.

Anne Emery wrote books and short stories for teen girls throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her understanding of the lives of teenaged girls creates believable stories and characters that are readable and re-readable!

Reviews

[Qt · Rating 5 out of 5]

4 1/2 stars. I really enjoyed this book and even had trouble putting it down at times :-) I loved the setting and the glimpse into college life.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

To set things straight, this is book #5, not 4, in the Burnaby series. The first 2 features Sally and the last 3 feature her younger sister Jean. As always, the writing is great and the book is an excellent look at college life in the early 1950s. I really can't say much for Jean's character, though. I mean, did she need a sharp crack on the head to see Phil clearly? Phil, her college boyfriend, was obviously bi-polar and I don't need a psych degree to figure that out. I do wish that the series would continue. I'd like to see Jean with Scotty, although it's suggested that this will happen. I also would like to see more of Sally. She really wasn't in this book, except I think she answered the phone at home once.

All in all, it's a regular "maltshop" book and I enjoy them so much- a look at early times when dating was so much different than it was in my day.

[Molly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jean, Jean... I wanted to like this one but unfortunately Jean is her own worst enemy here and lets one very not worth it man get to her head.

It's her freshman year and while a little sad to leave Scotty behind, Jean is full of good intentions for the school year ahead, she meets her roommate; Melissa who quickly becomes a friend and ends up musically accompanying another student, Rose. All is going well until she enters the orbit of big man on campus; Phil while he is on the outs with his off again/on again girlfriend Pamela.

Phil sucks, he really does and once Jean stops playing it cool and falls for him she behaves in a really silly manner and I was not a fan. Phil has a bit of the 'Kim' about him and gets Jean into trouble. Neither her friends or family like him and she's constantly warned not to let him break her heart but she is just absolutely not willing to take anyones good advice (and seemingly learned nothing from the Kim situation!) and later suffers for it. Phil blanking Jean and then running off to marry Pamela...god he was such a waste of space. I think Pamela probably ended up regretting that down the line
I much preferred the side plot of Melissa searching for her perfect man and the little bits we see of Rose who is fiercely devoted to her music.

[Adrienne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have to admit I was a bit frustrated by the focus on our 18? Year old heroine’s love life. Why was it so important for the 18-20 year olds in this book to get married? I guess those were the times- but their unthinking privilege, giving up opportunities that others could never have, combined with the ease with which they got jobs, got into colleges, and had helpful social networks, left me cold. Ah well- like the others in this series, this book was a window into the early 1950s.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jean: "Oh Scotty I love you."
Also Jean: "But now that I'm at college, I probably should date the most popular guy around."

Another frustrating ready of Jean making stupid decisions. I thought it was weird that she was dating her sister's ex-boyfriend. I did not support that romance.

[Dee · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great picture of college life in the 1950s! As this is the last in the Sally and Jean Burnaby series, I have to reluctantly say good-bye to the Burnaby's. It was so much fun!

[Sarah TheAromaofBooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is actually Book #5 in the series, not #4 as listed on GR.

So sad to see my time with the Burnabys at an end!

Note: You can read my review of the entire series on my blog - https://thearomaofbooks.wordpress.com...

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love love love this look at college in the 1950s! So fun. Melissa on her hunt for a rich husband! As always with Jean, though, you can see exactly where things go wrong and you just want to smack her for being so dumb. I wish Scotty had been around more.