![]() ![]() The way that she describes her neighbors is perfect, and the way she navigates pre-teen feelings and confusion is masterful. Lee is so real and believable, I felt as if I were reading the journal of an actual, albeit incredibly eloquent, eleven year old aspiring writer, full of dreams and just trying to understand the world. Sharon Jennings has written Lee's voice to be so ingenuous, so full of thought and so poignant. Things are not as easy as they appear in storybooks, and both Lee and Cassandra learn a lot about each other, life and themselves. Lee naively expects her to be just like Anne, and desperately wants to be best friends. ![]() Much to Lee's delight, red-haired orphan Cassandra moves in next door, straight out a a book. Lee wants to be a writer, but it is the 1960s, and her mother would rather she be a teacher or a nurse, because she is female. Lee adores books, especially Anne of Green Gables and the Little House on the Prairie. A wonderful coming of age book written in the adorable, irrepressible voice of eleven year old Lee Mets, in the guise of a school assignment. ![]()
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