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A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life

by A. D. T. Whitney

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Fifteen-year-old Leslie Goldthwaite studies maps and imagines the lives tucked into small towns beside rivers and hills. At home, her older cousin Delight helps turn everyday talk toward questions of character and purpose. Leslie welcomes a moral until it seems directed at her, a tension that gives this story of girlhood its personal edge. A. D. T. Whitney sets her summer experiences within a Christian concern for how a young person can become useful to others.

The book makes that concern concrete through small acts of care. Leslie brings Prissy, a child with hearing loss, a parcel from Miss Craydocke containing Grimm's tales and flower seeds. Prissy's aunt describes how this friend has taught the girl to read and encouraged her interest in flowers and rocks.

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A. D. T. Whitney

A. D. T. Whitney (1824-1906), whose full name was Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, was an American poet and writer who also worked as a children's writer. Her fiction was written for girls, and her titles include "Faith Gartney's Girlhood" and "We Girls".

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Pages
137
Language
English
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