Tabitha at Ivy Hall

Ivy Hall #1

by Ruth Alberta Brown

Tabitha, motherless and mostly ignored by her father, is constantly getting into scrapes. She starts school at Ivy Hall, but before her first term is over, her father gets hurt. As she nurses him back to health, his heart softens and a joyful time follows as he becomes the father he never was.

Genres: Historical Fiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1911

Reviews

[hhertzof · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. I was expecting a boarding school story but the main character doesn't even get to school until the last third of the book and we barely see her there.

[Megan Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuter than expected, especially given that it's over 100 years old. It had the moralizing aspect (because of course it does, it was written in 1911), but I liked Tabitha's character.