LUCY ELLEN

by Frances Fitzpatrick Wright ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1940

Lucy's predicaments are usually her own fault, the result of trying to make an impression on some boy or other, from buying a car on the side to learning to roller-skate. She has her horrible moments of playing nursemaid to the baby and keeping house. But they are all such things as might happen to a normal impulsive girl, the characters are well-drawn and convincing, Lucy Ellen tells her own story and can laugh at herself, and the use of modern idioms and colloquialisms shows that the author knows her seventeen-year-olds. The flavor and quality reminds one of the Maudie stories by the Lorimers. Good fun -- in a field that is rarely successful.

Pub Date: April 1, 1940

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1940

Categories: FICTION