KATY KELLY OF CRIPPLE CREEK

by Ruth Wissmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 29, 1968

With more alliteration than a Kirkus review, Katy Kelly searches for the ""mean 'of weasel"" casting slurs on her name in this 1895 Colorado gold town. The only redhead in town (and archetypically Irish), she alone fits the description of the prankster who put a soap bar in the Ladies' Club creamed chicken; the real culprit must also be responsible for some nasty rhymes scrawled on the Hotel wall and the theft of Eva's gold nugget necklace and teacher's Shakespeare bust--both planted in Katy's school desk. Cousin Iris works to turn the thirteen-year-old tomboy (and silent sufferer) into a lady while Katy fights domestication. There's a lot going on besides-Iris' two beaus (which should she marry?), Katy's friendship with Kevin O'Keele and sister Lou, acceptance and banishment from a girls' club, Grandpa Kelly's stories of the old country. The evil plotter turns out to be a boy Katy humiliated in her fightin' days, the one she nurses when explosion rocks and nearly destroys Cripple Creek as they are about to go to Iris' wedding. Chock full of run-on action for them that likes it, an also-ran as a period piece.

Pub Date: April 29, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dodd Mead

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION