An Old-Fashioned Girl

I just finished a great book called "An Old-Fashioned Girl" - By Louisa May Alcott. It was a great book and I would recommend it for ages 10 to 16 or 17. It's about sweet Polly, a lively girl that lives a simple life and don't just go with the flow of social life at that time. (Such as the fashion.) She visits her cousins/friends (the Shaw family) in the city. They are social people and are wealth. Her friend Fanny is very up to date with the fashion at the time. They become good bosom friends even though they are very different. Tom (Fanny's brother) loves Polly like a sister and Maud (Fanny's little sister) admires Polly. They all have wonderful times together. Then the story skips six years. By then they have all grown up, but they are still mostly the same. I can't tell the rest of the story or I would ruin it for you, but I can tell you that Polly falls in love with someone, doesn't marry another, and finds out that being old-fashion is the best life to live.

I hope that you make time to read this wonderful classic!

Your very Happy Reader