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The Malones - Elizabeth (now married), Mary Fred, Johnny, Beany and almost always absent father Martie Malone - are an Irish Catholic family living in Denver, just prior to World War II. While their father is off writing columns for Denver's Evening Call, the children cope with running the family household and the pressures of Harkness High.
"Why couldn't the young Malones do the homework and the cooking and the laundry which Mrs. Adams had done so capably? It would mean getting up earlier each m ...more
"Why couldn't the young Malones do the homework and the cooking and the laundry which Mrs. Adams had done so capably? It would mean getting up earlier each m ...more
I always wondered why LMW abandoned Mary Fred as her main heroine after this book and focused on Beany instead, but I guess Beany was more fallible and thus more interesting. Mary Fred sometimes pissed me off in subsequent books because she was so charmingly imperfect.
An old-fashioned wholesome tale in the style of Estrid Ott. I feel like I ought to have loved it instead of just liked it, and I probably would have if I'd been younger when first reading it, because it fits right in with the other books I read in my tweens. Even without the nostalgia I spent a cosy evening snuggled up in a chair in the company of the Malones. I really wish they'd been better at standing up to Nonna though - she really bugged me. But of course all's well that ends well... especi
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May 27, 2009
Lisa Vegan
marked it as to-read
Sep 12, 2010
Lisa
marked it as to-read
