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While visiting an aunt, teenage Penny Parrish met and befriended lonely, lovely and rich Carrol Houghton, and impulsively invited her to come spend a month on an army base in Kansas. Not only does Carrol fall in love with the boisterous Parrish family but they help her reconnect with her aloof and busy father. In turn, Carrol helps Penny pursue her dream of going on the stage. Penny's older brother David, bound for West Point, provides a hint of romance for the shy Carrol, whose life is forever
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I sort of liked this book, but not as well as some other vintage YA I've read. While other vintage authors (like Beverly Cleary and my fav, Anne Emery, for example) wrote novels that were just as sweet but also very real, this one was a bit saccharine at times.
The weirdest thing about this book is that it was written in 1941, featured a military family living on base, and didn't mention the war at all. Was it because it was written just before the US was involved in the war? (I may have to read ...more
The weirdest thing about this book is that it was written in 1941, featured a military family living on base, and didn't mention the war at all. Was it because it was written just before the US was involved in the war? (I may have to read ...more
Read all the Parrish & Jordan family books our public library held.
