SIXTEEN IS SPECIAL

by Ernle Rydberg ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 22, 1954

This is a good teen age story- refreshingly free from cliches and glamouritis and peopled with flesh and blood characters whose real and ordinary problems are told with humor and a fine ear for life. Like Bright Summer (1953) a story of migrant Mexicans near Los Angeles, this is set in southern California, in San Diego. Its heroine is orphaned ""McGuire"" who lives at her Aunt Mary's boarding house and though she is the kind of girl we'd all like to be, she's easily within reach. She's gay, serious, idealistic and down to earth. Her closest friends are Wimpy and her brother Bascom, whose lawyer father gives them his workshop for a gang club house. Her main interest besides Bascom, is to win a sociology scholarship for college and to further her aims, McGuire almost loses Bascom when she befriends the errant, hot-rodding Seat and persuades him to join a car club and speed with safety. But at the end the kids are all off to college with a healthy start on life. Good going.

Pub Date: Sept. 22, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Longmans, Green

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION