A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jerv[...]
One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of[...]
A kind woman who was always deeply interested in the problems of the downtrodden, Jean Webster made an orphan girl a major character in one of her most charming and popular books--Daddy-Long-Legs. The oldest at a dreary home for foundlings, Judy Abbott finds her life completely changed when, with th[...]
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Klassikerboxen Repris innehåller fem oförglömliga uppväxtklassiker - Den hemliga trädgården, Agnes-Cecilia, Unga kvinnor, Pappa Långben och Alice i Underlandet. Omslagsillustrationerna är skapade av Lina Bodén. Boxen innehåller böcker vi ofta nämner som den första riktigt stora läsuppl[...]